The following lines in dmesg show that the driver complains about the fact that the card is not supported:
[ 18.981091] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:0407) installed [ 18.981092] NVRM: in this system is not supported by the 260.19.06 NVIDIA Linux [ 18.981093] NVRM: graphics driver release. Please see 'Appendix A - [ 18.981095] NVRM: Supported NVIDIA GPU Products' in this release's README, [ 18.981096] NVRM: available on the Linux graphics driver download page at [ 18.981097] NVRM: www.nvidia.com. [ 18.981103] nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -1 [ 18.981128] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s). [ 18.981130] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! I find it a bit weird as GeForce 8600M GT should be supported: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-260.19.12-driver.html I'm subscribing Nvidia to this bug report ** Summary changed: - All Nvidia drivers fail to load + Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT doesn't work with nvidia-current 260 -- Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT doesn't work with nvidia-current 260 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661248 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
