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Nvidia driver

Asked by oddvar

I have Nvidia Gforce 7100 <something> graphic card. When I boot from the install cd (Feisty) I get the default resolution 1280x1024 as I want , but after installing Feisty I am stuck with resolution 860x600. I have tried many ways to get the resolution I want, and I make it via the script <not sure correct name> dpkg-regonfigure...
Then I make to get a better resolution, but something tells me this is not correct anyhow!
First I experience errors in different programs like xawtv, which function ok when I install/run from live-cd. And in Azureus which give me an error msg after many hours downloading. And after installing nvidia-glx I lost all graphic screen. So there are in fact many different things that tell me the main problem is the Nvidia drivers. If anyone want to check, you might find many errors I have reported the last months. And I think it is all because of this problem with the Nvidia drivers. At current time I can "force" a resolution 1280x1024, but then I can not play the game supertux because this report error in screen resolution.

Now the final thing is that *everything* functioned perfect the first time I installed Feisty - about 3-4 months ago.

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Rodrigo Donado (frezeeer) said : 		#1

Hi:

have a look at this web, it could help you:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
and once you fell more confortable with ubuntu, you can go for the manual install.
as they say in the nvidia web:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_100.14.19.html
hope that helps

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oddvar (aha5262) said : 		#2

This is the output :

oddvar@Feisty:~$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 016a (rev a1)

Do you think this is safe to continue the instructions at the web-site?
nvidia-glx made my computer crash earlier

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oddvar (aha5262) said : 		#3

I just installed the restricted nvidia drivers. Nothing new, it give me an error screen at startup, and I am back to to low-resolution 1024x768. Continue with your next hint.

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oddvar (aha5262) said : 		#4

This is output from the command in "see also" :

oddvar@Feisty:~$ dmesg | grep -i nv
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fe5b000 - 000000001feea000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 14.006971] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 14.273457] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9755 Mon Feb 26 23:21:15 PST 2007
[ 24.212305] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 1.0-9631, but
[ 24.212308] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 1.0-9755. Please
[ 24.212309] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 24.212310] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 28.317670] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 1.0-9631, but
[ 28.317673] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 1.0-9755. Please
[ 28.317675] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 28.317677] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 32.376723] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 1.0-9631, but
[ 32.376726] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 1.0-9755. Please
[ 32.376728] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 32.376730] NVRM: components have the same version.
oddvar@Feisty:~$

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oddvar (aha5262) said : 		#5

This is output from the command 'make install' as described in http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-7185.html

oddvar@Feisty:~/Download/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7185$ sudo make install
Password:
Makefile:17: *** missing separator. Stop.
oddvar@Feisty:~/Download/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7185$

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Rodrigo Donado (frezeeer) said : 		#6

Hi:

you have to download the linux driver, not the freebsd:
this will be the link for the download:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.19/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run

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oddvar (aha5262) said : 		#7

Thanks Rodrigo Donado, that solved my question.

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oddvar (aha5262) said : 		#8

Ok, now I have a fresh clean install of Feisty.Screen resolution default 1280x1024. Here is the output from xawtv:

oddvar@Feisty:~$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.20-16-generic)
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0xb7d1a450b7f15e52 [PAL_B1,PAL_I,PAL_D1,PAL_N,PAL_Nc,PAL_60,NTSC_M,?,SECAM_B,SECAM_K,SECAM_K1,SECAM_L,?ATSC_8_VSB,ATSC_16_VSB,(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)]): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
oddvar@Feisty:~$

No webcam video from xawtv. So what is wrong?

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Rodrigo Donado (frezeeer) said : 		#9

Hi:

Please mark this question as solved, and open a new one.
I am glad I could help you with your other problem.

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Best Rodrigo Donado (frezeeer) said : 		#10

Mark the question as solved

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oddvar (aha5262) said : 		#11

Thanks Rodrigo Donado, that solved my question.