Comment 9 for bug 522328

Hi guys,

Bit of a me too post: I just did a fresh install of Lucid, used the restricted drivers to install the current nvidia driver but get the same problem as Federico. Some details:

$ lspci | grep -i VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1)

Error in X.org log:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***

Error in kern.log:

Mar 21 16:57:01 bohr kernel: [ 12.539312] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
Mar 21 16:57:01 bohr kernel: [ 12.539315] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb or
Mar 21 16:57:01 bohr kernel: [ 12.539316] NVRM: rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of the NVIDIA
Mar 21 16:57:01 bohr kernel: [ 12.539317] NVRM: device(s).
Mar 21 16:57:01 bohr kernel: [ 12.539319] NVRM: Try unloading the rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv kernel module
Mar 21 16:57:01 bohr kernel: [ 12.539320] NVRM: (and/or reconfigure your kernel without rivafb/nvidiafb
Mar 21 16:57:01 bohr kernel: [ 12.539321] NVRM: support), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module again.

Modprobbing error:

# modprobe nvidia
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia_173 (/lib/modules/2.6.32-16-generic-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-173.ko): No such device

# file /lib/modules/2.6.32-16-generic-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-173.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-16-generic-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-173.ko: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

Many thanks for your time.