need some help installing nvidia drivers...

recently i formatted my hard drive and started over again, but now i cannot seem to get the nvidia driver working properly again. I first tried installing it manually, but that doesnt work (ill explain the problem below), so then i tried envy but that just made things worse...

With the nvidia driver from the nvidia site, i need to reinstall it after every reboot from the recovery console, then type in "telinit 3" or else im forced to work in low graphics mode. Why doesnt it work again after a reboot? It works fine right after i install it then it fails on the next reboot. How can i get around this?

The problem with envy was really weird.. It moved all of the visuals down and to the left so that the bottom left corner was actually the top right corner and the rest of the screen had nothing in it (if you were to divide the screen into quarters, the bottom left quarter was just the top right corner, not inverted or anything, just as if it was dragged over there with the rest of the screen moving along with it, and the rest of the screen was where i could not see it). It also was in low graphics mode.

 

from your sig i'm assuming you're using ubuntu. you'll need to blacklist or restrict (whatever ubuntu calls it) your previous module, install nvidia, update your xorg.conf if needed, and maybe even configure you graphics hardware to use nvidia rather than nv. and who knows what order. i don't use ubuntu. but it sounds you have an typical module not loading issue. you should check dmesg or /var/log/messages or whatever nvidia logs you may have.

 

after doing a search for "nvidia" in the /var/log/messages file i found several instances of:

Code:

Jan 23 11:27:45 Christopher-PC kernel: [   22.225376] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Jan 23 11:27:45 Christopher-PC kernel: [   22.228467] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Jan 23 11:27:45 Christopher-PC kernel: [   22.228709] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 Kernel Module  1.0-7185  Mon Apr  2 13:03:04 PDT 2007

im guessing the reason i see several instances of this is because there is one for every reboot correct?

just for some extra info, i dont have either 'nvidia-glx' or 'nvidia-glx-new' installed under symnaptic.

 

Have you tried using nvidia's config utility that ships with the drivers?
You need root access:

nvidia-xconfig

 

that is just the script that modifies the xorg.conf file so it will work properly right? because if it is, i have used it.

 

it looks like the module loaded as there is no error afterwards. the 'taint' message is probably because you are using nvidia's proprietary driver.

 

that should actually load your driver. after running nvidia-xconfig, you should probably restart the x server.

edit: 'load' is probably the wrong word to use. it should update your system to incorporate the driver for further use, i.e., even after reboots.

 

nope, ran it and ive still got the same problem

any other ideas?

 

that might work, i didnt realize they updated that yesterday, adding support for the 169.09 driver instead of the 169.07 one

ill give it a shot tomorrow

EDIT: yah that worked, thanks

 

Anyone got an idea when 169.09 will be available through synaptic on Ubuntu & Mint? I knwo it already is on F8 & PCLinuxOS