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Problems with NVIDIA after upgrading to 8.10

Asked by Marcus

I just upgraded to 8.10 and am having problems with screen resolution. I'm running 8.10 on a Compaq Presario 700. The kernel that is loading is 2.624-21-generic & the system runs in low graphic mode. I get the following errors when booting up:

NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system and that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly. It aborts and states that screen(s) have been found but none have a usable configuration.

The NVIDIA accelerated graphic driver 177 is installed and activated. The NVIDIA X-Server Settings gives an error message of 'Run nvidia-xconfig as root" (which I have done). The screen resolution is 800x600 4:3 and there is not option to increase this resolution.

I've been troubleshooting this issue for over 8 hours following all of the instructions that I can find on the web. I've tried to recompile the kernel module for NVIDIA without success.

Any suggestions on how I can get my notebook functioning? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

marcus

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Marcus (mark-westrick) said : 		#1

I tried the suggestions at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/common-problems-and-solutions-for-nvidia-restricted-drivers-after-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-upgrade.html without success.

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Marcus (mark-westrick) said : 		#2

I've decided to reinstall Ubuntu 8.04 as I can't figure out why the upgrade didn't work on my notebook. It worked on my desktop however.

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udippel (udippel) said : 		#3

Similar problem here. I'll report independently. Also here, one successful upgrade, one complete fail. Be warned!
Here I tried all I could think of, nvidia-xconfig, rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf, Xorg -configure. None of them would even bring up a basic GUI.
nvidia-xconfig says it has 177 installed, but a kernel module of 96. I never installed that, never changed my hardware and it worked before the upgrade.