Nvidia Support with 6.0
Posts: 42
I did not see any mention of not having nvidia support in the press release, but the driver does not work on either of the 2 machines I installed it on. I noticed that the nvidia module does not match up with the kernel. Is there going to be a different way to get the nvidia module installed on the system (like Kanotix) or is it just too early in the development to have this working the standard way (Mepis OS Center)?
Nvidia Support with 6.0
Posts: 2280
You've piqued my curiosity about your nvidia question . And im courious what cards you're running and what problems encountered . I run two nvidia cards that work great out of the box with 6.0 experimental and 6.0 alpha-1 . Are they brand new cards or otherwise unusual . Any info to avoid them in the future would be appreciated .
jim
Default OK, Nvidia not OK
Posts: 42
James,
The cards are both 5200 Nvidia (XFX and Asus). I found that during an install, if I chose the Nvidia driver then X did not start on reboot. When trying startx, I would get message that driver module is incompatible with kernel. If I go with the default driver selection, then I am fine and I get X, but no 3D acceleration.
I am going to try Kerry's suggestion tomorrow.
Thank you both for your responses.
Nvidia works fine...just not out the box
Posts: 16
Nvidia driver did not run on my 6600gt or 6200 after install.
I ran the following command as root, restarted X, and everything worked perfect on both machines:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
woops
Posts: 1504
Sorry i forgot to mention you have to put nvidia in xorg.conf, it's simple just look for the line that has the driver and put nvidia.
Example->
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x]"
Driver "vesa" or "nv"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
....Change to....
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Re: Default OK, Nvidia not OK
Posts: 690
James,The cards are both 5200 Nvidia (XFX and Asus). I found that during an install, if I chose the Nvidia driver then X did not start on reboot. When trying startx, I would get message that driver module is incompatible with kernel. If I go with the default driver selection, then I am fine and I get X, but no 3D acceleration.
I am going to try Kerry's suggestion tomorrow.
Thank you both for your responses.
I've got the 5200FX as well. Follow the suggestion from Kerry.
Regards, Ko
Default OK, Nvidia not OK
Posts: 2280
Submitted by Mister Lag on Wed, 04/12/2006 - 23:14.
"
James,
The cards are both 5200 Nvidia (XFX and Asus). I found that during an install, if I chose the Nvidia driver then X did not start on reboot. When trying startx, I would get message that driver module is incompatible with kernel. If I go with the default driver selection, then I am fine and I get X, but no 3D acceleration.
I am going to try Kerry's suggestion tomorrow.
Thank you both for your responses."
Strange... there must be variations of the 5200 chips or their implementations . Just did a lspci on the box im using now it returns gforce fx5200 as the card id.
Thanks for the info!
jim
installed nvidia-glx ok, but now no digital display?
Posts: 15
After install, my GF4 Ti4200 was running in digital mode on the 'nv' driver, no problem. After installing nvidia-glx, it will only run in analog mode. My monitor (LG L1920P) is not in the selection for monitor identification, but that doesn't seem to be an issue.
Any help in getting the nvidia driver to work in digital would be appreciated.
mike
Just
Posts: 1504
Just use synaptic to install nvidia-glx, you need to force version dapper. it will then install the correct kernel. make sure you mark nvidia-glx-legacy for complete removal and apply first.