Thread: Nvidia Graphics card driver help

i installed ubuntu 8.04 yesterday , while have used few times in past on dual boot system i'm not experienced linux.

i'm running athlon xp 2600+ 2 gb of ram , newly installed nvidia geforce 9400 gt pci card (regular pci not pci-e) 1gb vram. when installed ubuntu didnt detect card started looking through various forums , websites figure out how installed.

spent day yesterday frustrated , trying card installed , still havent gotten anywhere. before asks, yes bios set pci , not agp card.

system hardware driver list says "no proprietary drivers in use on system"

heres rundown of did.

-downloaded nvidia driver nvidia site, driver card "nvidia-linux-x86-256.44.run"

-purged nvidia drivers may loaded on system command sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*

-installed driver console , got "error: unable load kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. happens most
when kernel module built against wrong or
improperly configured kernel sources, version of gcc differsfrom 1 used build target kernel, or if driver such asrivafb/nvidiafb present , prevents nvidia kernel module fromobtaining ownership of nvidia graphics device(s)."

- blacklisted files in modprobe.d
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv

- purged nvidia drivers , installed driver again

time got kernel source tree error.

-updated of headers , kernel source
-purged nvidia again , tried reinstall

got installed
"
> kernel module compilation complete.
-> installing both new , classic tls opengl libraries.
-> searching conflicting x files:
-> done.
-> searching conflicting opengl files:
-> done.
-> installing 'nvidia accelerated graphics driver linux-x86' (256.44):
executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq 2.6.24-28-generic'...
-> done.
-> driver file installation complete.
-> running post-install sanity check:
-> done.
-> post-install sanity check passed.
-> shared memory test passed.
-> running runtime sanity check:
-> done.
-> runtime sanity check passed.
-> run nvidia-xconfig utility automatically update you
r x configuration file nvidia x driver used when res
tart x? pre-existing x configuration file backed up. (answer: y
es)
-> x configuration file has been updated. installation of
nvidia accelerated graphics driver linux-x86 (version: 256.44) complete.

-reboot , message age asking if want configure driver , box says "you running in low graphics mode" , option configure video card.

when hit configure shows current driver , can select specific card list, if go down list highest cards listed geforce 8 series. if select use current driver , hit test screen goes black , have giant square mouse cursor.

have nvidia xserver setting listed under preferences when open "you not appear using nvidia x driver. please edit x configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` root), , restart x server." restarted x , went nvidia settings , gives me same error message.

thats i'm @ now. how card working ? have never had many issues trying install video card. tried doing upgrade ubuntu 10.04 , still had same problem.

hi.

basic question @ first. why did install 8.04? special reason behind it? 10.04 out , lts release. why don't give 10.04 try?

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