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is Nvidia incompatible?

Asked by JOHN

I have Win7 on one hard drive and Ubuntu 13.04 on the other. Both were running fine until last week when I installed the latest driver for my GeForce GT 640 graphics card. Win 7 works fine. When I select Ubuntu in GRUB I see a purple screen for about 5 seconds, then black. After 15-20 seconds I see a purple flash, then a green flash, then back to black- forever.

Is my newly updated graphics card now incompatible with Ubuntu? Is there any point re-installing Ubuntu? Should I use system restore to return to a point before I updated?

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#1

Hello,

you said that you installed the latest DRIVER for your card. How you did that ? Have downloaded the driver from nvidia's site or you installed the driver from Ubuntu repositories ?

You will probably need to uninstall the driver you have installed and install a supported driver from Ubuntu repositories.

nvidia-319-updates should be fine.

Regards
 NikTh

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JOHN (jlumbtx) said : 		#2

I downloaded and update from the Nvidia site and installed it in Win7.
I'll try your suggestion.
If I uninstall the new driver and Win7 and Ubuntu work again, is there any point in installing nvidia-319-updates?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

What is the output of :

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvida

Thanks

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JOHN (jlumbtx) said : 		#4

actionparsnip,

One minute after I responded(by e-mail), saying I can't access Ubuntu, a pop-up from Nvidia pop-up, announcing a new driver.
Nothing to lose, I thought, and installed it. Access to Ubuntu has returned. There just has to be a Linux conflict in that previous driver version.

Here is the output you requested:

[sudo] password for john:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK107 [GeForce GT 640]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:18 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:de000000-dfffffff ioport:ef00(size=128) memory:d0000000-d007ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04
Codename: raring
Linux john-GA-890GPA-UD3H 3.8.0-30-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 20:54:42 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux

John

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Ok. And the output of:

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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JOHN (jlumbtx) said : 		#6

I am unable to connect to Launchpad.

The Terminal does not respond to the input you posted:
john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$

John

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Your question #236025 on Ubuntu changed:
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actionparsnip requested more information:
Ok. And the output of:

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#7

Hello,

Launchpad as other services as well, had a problem recently. Now are OK.

If your problem solved, please mark it as such (click the button "This solved my question").

If not, then tell us what else is the problem now ?

Regards
 NikTh

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JOHN (jlumbtx) said : 		#8

actionparsnip,

The Terminal does not respond to the input you posted:

john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$

John

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#9

Try

    dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia

If you installed the driver through Nvidia's site, then the dpkg will not list this binary.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#10

sudo apt-get install nvida-current

Reboot to test. Why you didn't use this method is beyond me. It's easier and the package will update with the rest of your OS.

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JOHN (jlumbtx) said : 		#11

2 reaasons:
1. I didn't know it was available.
2. Apprently it doesn't work.

john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$ sudo apt-get install nvida-current
[sudo] password for john:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvida-current
john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$ sudo apt-get install nvida-current
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvida-current
john@john-GA-890GPA-UD3H:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#12

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Couldnt correct it yourself....come on. Think about it

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JOHN (jlumbtx) said : 		#13

I have no clue how to fix sudo apt-get install nvidia-current.

I have downloaded and installed an Nvidia driver I found in Software Center. I have no idea if it is the best one available or even if it is working, but Ubuntu is still running so it didn't screw it up. I'll call that a win.