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  1. Bug #173418
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 173418

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Avery (avery-dayzed) wrote :

For those of you having problems with the nvidia restricted driver either crashing X or displaying a black screen with Ubuntu 8.04 use the latest nvidia beta driver found on the nvidia website it is version NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run. I am running the Quadro NVS 140M on a Dell D830 and this fixed my problem. The driver can be found here http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html and then click on archive and find the 173.08 driver.

Here are the steps:
1. Purge the nvidia restricted package if installed by doing a "dpkg --purge nvidia-glx-new"
2. Kill the gdm server, "/etc/init.d/gdm stop"
3. Install the driver mentioned above.
4. start gdm server "/etc/init.d/gdm start"
When X starts you should now see the nvidia logo with the the words beta in red. If you don't edit you xorg.conf file and replace nv with nvidia and restart X.

Hope this helps someone!!