Still having problems, though appear to be making some progress. Summary: Once reconfigured with 180.44, when X attempts to start it reports an error accessing /dev/nvidia0. Now when I checked from console mode, /dev/nvidia0 looked OK: crw-rw-rw and was there. However, with X not being able to access the dev 'file' at start up this appears to be the source of the failure to initialize the 8800GT at PCI:1:0:0 which is then immediately reported. Note that not being able to fix this yet in console mode I reboot, recover, xfix, resume which works OK and allows gdm to start. /dev/nvidia0 doesn't exist then as 180.44 isn't activated, so I'm guessing it gets created upon activation.
More: I only got the package to install using Synaptic and oddly it needed my Jaunty install CD for something but didn't show what. Attempting to install using Jockey from the System/Preferences/Appearance resulted in a Jockey crash. Attempting to install from System/Admin/HW_Drivers also crashed with no errors reported other than it crashed. This is with the Jaunty system updates installed today prior to updating to the 180.44 driver. Now that its 'installed' HW_Drivers does see it and provides the option to activate it though this results in the X crash described above when attempting to activate it. Jockey doesn't see it or activate it and just dies. I've been using nvidia-xconfig and haven't tried manually updating xorg.conf. I saw the update from Nvidia for 180 and DL'ed though I thought I'd wait and see what Ubuntu wants to do before trying a native install, Please advise, as I know the team is working for release in the next few weeks, if additional logs, etc are needed. ** Attachment added: "Shows driver installed but can't be activated." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25829151/sysinfo_NV_180.44_install.png -- Intrepid Nvidia driver setup, not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
