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Restricted Driver Manager fails to detect NVidia card

Asked by Niraj Dudani

Hullo,

I have a clean install of Feisty 64 bit on the following machine:
Compaq V6102AU laptop
NVidia GeForce Go 6150
AMD Turion 64 X2
Linux 2.6.20-15

I am following the BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia guide in the community docs. When I start the Restricted Driver Manager, I get a dialog box saying: "Your hardware does not need any restricted drivers."

As mentioned, this is a fresh install, and the status of the system is the following:
Install done with 'nolapic' option. Also boots with the same option.
Not updated the kernel to 2.6.20-16.
Not manually installed the nVIDIA drivers.
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-generic package is installed.
nvidia-glx-legacy, nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-new NOT installed.

I won't mind following the NvidiaManual community guide to manually install latest drivers, although it'll be nicer if the above problem can be resolved.

Thanks,
iglookid

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Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : 		#1

Guess you just need to install nvidia-glx package (via Synaptic or by running apt-get install nvidia-glx from the command line), run sudo nvidia-glx-config enable, and restart the X (or just the machine). After that, the restricted driver manager will detect the restricted driver and inform you about that

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Niraj Dudani (nirajdude) said : 		#2

Thanks Dmitry Mityugov, that solved my question.

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Niraj Dudani (nirajdude) said : 		#3

I thought installing nvidia-glx-legacy / nvidia-glx / nvidia-glx-new was the Restricted Driver Managers task.

Quoting from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia :
Restricted Devices Manager (...) will try and choose the correct version out of nvidia-glx-legacy (...), nvidia-glx (...) and nvidia-glx-new (...) automatically.

In any case, I tried following the steps suggested by you, and X would not restart after that. The Xorg.0.log said: No screens found. After restoring xorg.conf with its backup, I could start X. After that the restricted driver manager is still giving the old message.

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Niraj Dudani (nirajdude) said : 		#4

PS: Sorry about the message about the problem being resolved. I clicked the wrong button by mistake.

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Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : 		#5

Oh, I checked the list of supported NVIDIA graphic chips (http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-a.html) and I can't find your card there (as far as I know GeForce Go 6150 is not the same as GeForce 6150). It seems this card is not supported at this time. The page you quoted from contains an unsupported workaround, please try it if you wish

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