No download for NVidia Driver
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Just installed 6.0 on a new computer, MSI k9n6gm-v motherboard and Creative external serial modem. I've tried about a week to install the nvidia driver through Mepis Utilities. I've minimal problems with this on other installs, i.e a couple of unsuccessful tries and then good to go. This time it has always shown quick movement of the progress bar and announces success in about 30 seconds. I'm using the same external serial modem I used on the other 6.0 install and I know how long it akes if successful. Is there possibly a problem here or just a bad run of repo roulette?
No download for NVidia Driver
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Well i am at a loss right now. I just installed 6.0 on a test machine and the legacy drivers loaded right up & on reboot got the nvidia splash. I didn't try the new driver this machine has a mx4000 card in it an i am not sure yet if it's supposed to work or not with the latest driver.
The loaded driver is
nvidia-glx-legacy 1.0.7174+2.6.15.12-28.1 and it appears to be the latest legacy available with 6.0 I will have to check at nvidia to see if later drivers work with this card.
By the way what card do you have & which driver were you trying to load?
jim
Nvidia driver
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I selected the new driver in Mepis Utilities. Video is onboard for MSI K9N6SGM-V GF6100 AM2 motherboard. I may be in the wrong forum for this one. This is a new build with a board that isn't turning out to be particularly Linux friendly. Since I posted I've also noticed some odd abrupt time-outs and stalls with dial-up that may be contributing.
I really appreciate the follow-up either way. Mepis forums are tops.
Nvidia driver
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Dont think its your modem. Look in the boot folder & see if you have two kernel images installed, the 2.6.15-26-386 and 2.6.15-27-386. When i went back and tried the newer driver with Mepis utilities i came up with an extra kernel. Also do you have 154 packages to be upgraded in the tray? If so we might get you going.
jim
I gave up and installed 6.5 rc2.
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There was a dial-up problem that apparently got worse when I installed the SMP kernel. System got pretty unstable after that and connections would time-out in seconds. Of course, if it had worked I would have been installing the wrong driver.
Now I'm fighting 6.5 rc3 on another partition that seems to refuse to progress in the formatting stage of the install.
Thanks for the advice though.
No download for NVidia Driver
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Check in synaptic the version of your kernel module for nvidia and nvidia-glx or restricted module i think it was at that time . There may be a mismatch because of the kernel upgrade that is called linux-image some time after 6.0 was released. I have been planning to reinstall 6.0 to check that out but keep forgetting it. There was a couple of other posts about it but i got side tracked somehow.
jim