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Bug #173418
Comment #71

Comment 71 for bug 173418

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dragonfly (streams0dragonflies) wrote on 2008-11-11:

#71

@Avery Day,
I don't know if it's too late to add a comment to this bug...
I have a problem now with 2.6.24-21-rt (#1 SMP PREEMPT RT) kernel and I have lspci -nn |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV25GL [Quadro4 900 XGL] [10de:0258] (rev a3)
and it worked with available modules in Gustsy's repo good enough for me at the max. resolution my monitor allowed (old LG monitor with max. 1024X768 res).

Now with vesa that came with installation, is only 800X600 and cannot determine screen configuration, the restricted NVDIA driver works but only at 640X480 resolution, and envy install of same driver (96.43.05) yields a X server fatal error with no screen detected and module missing and I must fall back to vesa default via recovery mode. Also I typed in nv in device line in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and this yeilds in same 800X600 resolution and lower glx modes than I had in Gutsy.

I want to know if your advice on loading the restricted driver,

"Revision 3
1. Download the 173.08 nvidia beta driver here http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html click on archive and find the 173.08 driver.
2. Purge the nvidia restricted package if installed by doing a "dpkg --purge nvidia-glx-new"
3. Kill the gdm server, "/etc/init.d/gdm stop"
4. Install the driver downloaded in step 1, unless you are brave you need to let the nvidia installer modify the xorg.conf file.
5. Black list the nv driver in the "/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common" (should look like this DISABLED_MODULES="nv")
5. start gdm server "/etc/init.d/gdm start"

will likely solve my issue with Nvidia driver 96.43.07 as well, which is their latest driver for my card:

Version: 96.43.07
Operating System: Linux x86
Release Date: July 16, 2008

Release Highlights

    * Fixed a problem that caused TV output on secondary TVs to be black and white on some GPUs.
    * Improved nvidia-xconfig behavior when updating X configuration files without a "Module" section.
    * Restored compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.

was the "without a Module" the issue anyways or is it possibly as chef mentions,

"As stated in the workaround, "I went in the /lib/modules/2.6.24-xxx/modules.alias and I commented out the first two occurrences of AES that link to padlock and geode hardware".

Now the issue seems to be the occurrences of AES that link to padlock and geode in the modules.alias file that stop the kernel from loading some device drivers."

lastly, how do you get "Screens and Graphics" app.? Don't know what to install via Synaptic or Aptitude!
Tnks!

@Avery Day, 
I don't know if it's too late to add a comment to this bug...
I have a problem now with 2.6.24-21-rt (#1 SMP PREEMPT RT) kernel and I have  lspci -nn |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV25GL [Quadro4 900 XGL] [10de:0258] (rev a3)
and it worked with available modules in Gustsy's repo good enough for me at the max. resolution my monitor allowed (old LG monitor with max. 1024X768 res).

Now with vesa that came with installation, is only 800X600 and cannot determine screen configuration, the restricted NVDIA driver works but only at 640X480 resolution, and envy install of same driver (96.43.05) yields a X server fatal error with no screen detected and module missing and I must fall back to vesa default via recovery mode.  Also I typed in nv in device line in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and this yeilds in  same 800X600 resolution and lower glx modes than I had in Gutsy.