After Installation of virtualbox my nvidia-driver did'nt work anymore

[kaiszy]

Hi!

I have successfull installed the nvidia-Driver 173.14.09 for my Graphiccard NVidia GT9600 on Ubtuntu 8.04. Then i decide to install virtualbox. After installation of virtualbox the xserver starts with a warning "low resolution" window and the nvidia-setting say's that the driver isn't loaded.

So i deinstall virtualbox. Same as above. Then i install the nvidia-driver again. After this action the xserver loads the nvida-driver correct.

I retry it (install virtualbox). Same effect (low resolution window an not loaded nvidia-driver).

Then i try to download virtualbox direct from www.virtualbox.org and install it: Same effect: Not loaded nvidia-driver an low resolutionwindow.

Maybe cause of the nmi (i think virtualbox do something with it) ?

Best regards,
  Kai.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

This is probably because you've installed the wrong flavor of the virtualbox-ose modules. You probably need virtualbox-ose-modules-generic; you're booting a linux-386 kernel probably, but without the restricted nvidia modules/drivers.
I'm marking this as duplicate of 226960, which should include a workaround/fix for this (by removing the linux-386 kernel image and/or just booting the -generic kernel).

[kaiszy (kai-szymanski)]

Hi Daniel,

thanks for your afford! As workarround i have installed vmware-server in
the meantime ;)

Best regards,
  Kai.