On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:21 +1000, Heracles wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thanks David, > That worked. She now has a working system. > Hope you don't mind that I cc'd this to the list as I have had a lot of > help from a number of SLUGgers (I think that someone else also mentioned > envy) and I want to thank everyone. Envy worked a treat.
I spent three days struggling with this problem, getting myself into a bigger and bigger mess. Alberto's script had me up and running in a few minutes. I promptly sent him a small donation. (he's got a donation thingie on his site). How much is several hours/days of my time worth? I would like to think it's worth a heck of a lot more than the small amount I sent him. > Now all I have to do is get her Dell Sound Blaster Live working properly > and she will be over the moon. > > Thanks again > Heracles > > david wrote: > > I had the exact same problem and used envy to solve it: > > > > http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html > > > > The problem appears to be that you need to remove absolutely all trace > > of non-matching drivers from your system - eg if you are using > > proprietry drivers you can't have the free ones there. > > > > This guys script worked first go for me. > > > > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 21:49 +1000, Heracles wrote: > > I can install the new NVIDIA drivers and startx works and all is well > > BUT as soon as the machine is restarted X fails to load and complains of > > a module mismatch. > > Does X when loaded from a reboot look in a different place for the > > drivers than it does when I use startx and does it then overwrite the > > modules so startx will also not work. > > It is really a oain to have to run through the NVIDIA driver setup each > > time I restart the machine. There must be an easier way. > > > > Heracles > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGyOyiybPcBAs9CE8RAmMWAJsHA43nAmtk6lAPeaPuIdjaqy4mJACeMmMt > fbXl+vfB4Pbc0em3WOM+W68= > =Qn47 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
