Thank you much for your advice on this matter! On the beta version of 10.04, I attempted to install the nvidia driver with no knowledge of how to edit the xorg.conf file like you showed below; I also guess that blacklisting the other drivers is a ncecessary step because subsequent upgrades will try to default to these, right? It's unfortunate, because now we're reduced to what windows users usually do.
On 06/05/2010 09:45 AM, Pablo Estigarribia wrote: > In this forum http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=167422 I > found some information that fix the problem, basic steps are: > > 1) Download the correct driver from nvidia web page (I couldn't get it fixed > with Ubuntu driver at any way) > 2)Purge nvidia packages: sudo apt-get purge nvidia-* > 3) Create the file "/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf" with the > following contents: > blacklist vga16fb > blacklist nouveau > blacklist lbm-nouveau > blacklist nvidia-173 > blacklist nvidia-96 > blacklist nvidia-current > blacklist nvidiafb > 4)create or adjust the /etx/X11/xorg.conf file to: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > EndSection > 5) reboot (You can also unload nvidia modulos and the others that I put in > blacklist with command "modprobe -r module", example: modprobe -r nouveau > 6) If you restarted it will tell you that it can't start X ( low graphics > mode ) , then choose a text based console login > (if it does start in X, just press ctrl-F1, log yourself in and call "sudo > service gdm stop" or "sudo stop gdm" > > 7) run the nvidia installer and when it asks to run nvidia-x-config, answer > yes > To run the nvidia installer, you should go to the folder with driver (ej: cd > Downloads). Change the installer permissions to be executable (chmod +x > fileoftheinstaller.sh), execute the installer (sudo ./fileoftheinstaller.sh) > > 8) Restart, it should start xorg automatically > -- gdm not starting on bootup with nvidia driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573455 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
