[HLUG] Nvidia drivers no longer working with Ubuntu Edgy or Feisty

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Julian,

On 28/02/07, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I'm not so sure if anyone can help, but I've come up against a brick
> wall on this so looking for suggestions.
>
> My Ubuntu Edgy installation was fine with the std Ubuntu method of
> installation of Nvidia drivers rather than using Nvidia's own package
> install which you compile modules against your kernel which you have to
> redo whenever there is a kernel update.
>
> All was fine till a couple of months ago. Then on one update, something
> broke I think. I instead used the envy nvidia script to patch things up
> (as i mentioned previously on this list) and this worked fine.
>
> Now I've dist-upgraded to the dev version of Ubuntu Feisty (working
> pretty well so far by the way), but the nvidia drivers dont work here
> for me either. What's confusing is that I have Geforce 2 MX100 DDR/200
> DDR which I'm not completely clear whether this card requires the Nvidia
> 'legacy' driver or the normal one. It seems older GeForce 2 cards do
> need the legacy driver. I'm sure I've read conflicting info as to what
> driver I require legacy or latest, but am wondering whether for some
> reason I am always getting the wrong driver version here.
>
> Just as a test to see if my install had got messed up with having to
> using the Envy driver script method previously, I created a clean Ubuntu
> Feisty Install, with exactly the same results.
>
> Ubuntu forums are full of happy campers with Beryl and 3D swanky
> graphics on Feisty but I'm stuck on 2D at the mo.
>
> Can anyone suggest anything worth a try to get this fixed??

Firstly, your graphics card is supported with the latest drivers (see:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html).  I'd check is that you
have the kernel-headers package is installed for you installed
kernel-image package.  Does the driver build properly and get
installed or does it fail.  If it does fail then post the file
/var/log/nvidia-installer.log which should contain the reason way.

Thanks
Mark