Nvidia does not work with Geforce 6100

[Joseph Potter]

I have tried all nVidia drivers over the course of the development of Ubuntu Intrepid and none have worked with the nVidia Geforce 6100. As of October 12, I can report that the first beta with all upgrades does not work with the 6100 (Rev. A) on-board chip on the MB by BioStar.

This graphics card works without a problem in all versions of Ubuntu until Intrepid.

I have tried all 3 of the drivers that are now available for use in Intrepid.

[johnlau (johnlau2005)]

It happened to me as well. I found that GeForce 6100 doesn't works with 17X driver, neither 173 nor 177

[nanog (sorenimpey)]

@johnlau

(II) LoadModule: "nv"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nv_drv.so
(II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

you do not appear to be using nvidia and may need to reinstall the driver or at least determine whether the dkms build fails.

run "dkms status" to determine if the module is installed.

if not then issue:
sudo dkms build -m nvidia -v 177.80 -k 2.6.27-7-generic
sudo dkms install -m nvidia -v 177.80 -k 2.6.27-7-generic
(you may need to change the kernel version to the output of "uname -a")

[johnlau (johnlau2005)]

Please see if this one is ok

[Igor Goldenberg (igold)]

I have the same issue with nVidia 6100 and Intrepid nvidia-glx-177. X window starts but on black screen I can see only 2px line at the top.

What is the shame Xorg's driver 'nv' also doesn't work correctly with 6100 and my LCD Benq FP72E, allowing only 800x600 resolution for 17" LCD (with native res 1280x1024).

What I can do now is just to use 'vesa' driver for X (of course without any 2D/3D hardware acceleration). But at least it works with 1280x1024.

[Maimon Mons (mmcmonster)]

Just wanted to add a "me, too". I have the same problems as mentioned above. No problems at all with 8.04, but nothing better than 800x600 with nv drivers and a 2px thick line with 17x drivers. :-(

[nebajoth (nebajoth)]

Same thing happening here. Neither 177 nor 173 work. 2 pixel line. Works under VESA, up to 1280x1024, but no 3d acceleration.

[Robert Mahoney (mahoneyr)]

Is this the same bug being discussed over at nvidia in these threads?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=116946
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115209
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=114346

If so, see here for a very clumsy workaround:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1763467&postcount=22

Basically, change xorg.conf to use vesa driver and start X, then change xorg.conf to use nvidia driver and restart X.

I'm affected by this bug, but the workaround works for me.

[Igor Goldenberg (igold)]

Thank you for the hint, it works for me too.

So if I don't reboot my desktop often I can restart X once after booting and work with fast acceleration rest of time.

[Maimon Mons (mmcmonster)]

For what it's worth, the v96 drivers that were recently added to the repositories seems to work, at least for me.

While not the latest, it at least doesn't require rebooting the X server after each reboot of the system.

Since the latest drivers still don't work, I guess this bug should remain open.

Can others confirm that the older driver that was added to the repository seems to work? It's a new option under the System->Administration->Hardware Drivers.

[Igor Goldenberg (igold)]

Yes, it's work for me too, but too slow to use compiz. And I also have some weird artefacts in bottom part of gnome-terminal window even without compiz. So I still use the workaround with 'vesa' driver after reboot.

[holst (henrik-holst-matmech)]

Same problem here. Kubuntu 8.10.

I have tried with both 177 and 173. I am sticking to the nv drivers until this gets fixed by nvidia or some skilled hacker. :-)

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

I have attached the X.org startup message.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

Hi joseph-m-potter,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

[Igor Goldenberg (igold)]

There is output of 'sudo lspci -vvnn' at my computer in the attached logfile.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

In Jaunty (9.04), we are dropping the nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 package, which
is now superseded by then nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package.

  http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180

To transition your bug into the new package, we need your help. Please do the following:

 a. Verify the bug occurs in Jaunty with the -180 driver
     (ISOs: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/)
 b. If you haven't already, please include in the bug:
     * Your /var/log/Xorg.0.log
     * Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
     * The output of `lspci -vvnn`
     * Steps to reproduce the issue
 c. Under Affects, click the down arrow to the left of 'nvidia-graphics-drivers-177'
 d. Edit the Package to change 'nvidia-graphics-drivers-177' to 'nvidia-graphics-drivers-180'
 e. Click Save Changes

Thank you!

[We'll expire the remaining -177 bugs in a month or so.]

[Igor Goldenberg (igold)]

I have nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 from Intrepid updates repository (180.11-0ubuntu1~intrepid1). The issue with one line initial screen still has place (after computer reboot/power on). I use workaround with X restart using "vesa" driver and another X restart using "nvidia" driver. "nvidia" driver works well after the graphics screen was initialized by "vesa".

[holst (henrik-holst-matmech)]

Have you tried the 180.29 drivers?

We had a laptop at work which either crashed or plainly didnt work with any version of the nvidia driver shipped with Ubuntu 8.10 (64-bit desktop). But downloading the absolutely latest drivers did the trick!

The drivers are here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html - Small warning: You might need to manually uninstall the drivers shipped with Ubuntu first.

I recommend that you try this. But of course we would like to see 180.29 included in 9.04. :-)

[Paul Kuhnast (funkninja)]

Hi Guys,

I also suffest from the line at the top of the screen with the nvidia drivers.

I can confirm that the problems with 173 and 177 have _not_ been fixed with 180.29

I tried 173 and 177 on 8.10
I tried 173, 177 and 180.29 on 9.04

I havent tried 180.29 on 8.10 though. But I'm more interested in running 9.04 at this stage.

So to reiterate.,. 180.29 has the exact same problem.

[Paul Kuhnast (funkninja)]

s/sufest/suffer

[amandel (a-mandel007)]

Got openSUSE 11.1 running fine now, with audio, so have to pass on Ubuntu.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Kuhnast" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:14 AM
Subject: [Bug 282214] Re: Nvidia does not work with Geforce 6100

s/sufest/suffer

--
Nvidia does not work with Geforce 6100
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282214
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug.

Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-177” source package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
I have tried all nVidia drivers over the course of the development of Ubuntu
Intrepid and none have worked with the nVidia Geforce 6100. As of October
12, I can report that the first beta with all upgrades does not work with
the 6100 (Rev. A) on-board chip on the MB by BioStar.

This graphics card works without a problem in all versions of Ubuntu until
Intrepid.

I have tried all 3 of the drivers that are now available for use in
Intrepid.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

In Jaunty (9.04) we have dropped the nvidia-graphics-driver-177 package, as
it is superseded by nvidia-graphics-drivers-180.

Because of this, we are closing this bug as expired.

You are encouraged to file your -nvidia bug reports against the
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

In Jaunty (9.04), we have just updated to the latest
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package from nVidia, version 180.44.

This package provides fixes for a large number of bugs, and we need your
assistance in testing if it fixes the issue you reported.

To do this, please do the following:

 a. Update to the 180.44 version of -nvidia using your favorite update
     method

 b. Attempt to reproduce your bug

 c. If your bug still remains, please simply reply to this email
     indicating so.

 d. If your bug is now solved, you can help us by setting your bug
     report to Fix Released:
     * In launchpad, go to your bug report
     * Click on the downward pointing arrow under Status
     * Set the Status field to 'Fix Released'
     * Comment on the change, such as, 'Verified fixed in 180.44'
     * Click 'Save Changes'

 e. If the original problem is solved but there are now other problems,
     please close the original bug and open new ones for those issues.

Thank you!

For details on the changes in this version of -nvidia, please see:

   http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.44.html

[Robert Mahoney (mahoneyr)]

Not fixed by 180.44.

[ButterflyOfFire (butterflyoffire)]

Hi,
I installing and uninstalling Ubuntu 9.04 but the problem remains the same : the NVIDIA Driver is not working on my machine since Ubuntu 8.10. In the previous versions, everything was fine.

Today April 19th 2009, I installed Ubuntu 9.04 RC and the problem remains the same.
After installing the NVIDIA Driver for my GeForce 6100, I reboot the machine. When GDM starts, I have a Black Screen with "a two pixel line" on the top of my LCD Screen.

The only solution I have, is to return back to my Hardy 8.04.
Is this problem related to Xorg or to the NVIDIA driver ?

Thanks

[Richard (indyhawk)]

Hi all,
 Installed 8.10 but as you read the NVidia will not work, due to new kernal ? OK upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 and driver 40 then 51 last night (4.24.09) BUT still no good. Options, go back down to 8.04, wait till a fix comes from someone some day, switch to Red Hat, or Windows xp. Reminds me of the days with Fourth and CPM.

[MockY (mocky)]

Is there a fix yet. I to get a black screen with a 2px line on top of the screen when using the 180 drivers with 1280x1024. I have used Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10 without a problem, but Jaunty does not like GeForce 6100.

Any work arounds or an estimate for a fix?

[Tiny4eva (lagerlout07)]

Just to let you know, i installed the latest 185.18.04 drivers and all the 6100 problem are gone, i wrote a small guide on my site as to what to do http://forum.winmxworld.com/index.php/topic,8107.0.html

I hope this will be useful to others, its a mash of many hours searching diffrent place. I think we should be looking at the fact that anything below the new set of drivers are just too buggy and hopefully we will see added for upgrade soon instead of manually installing.

[MockY (mocky)]

I did some testing of my own yesterday and came to the same conclusion.
I posted my findings on ubuntuforums.org
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7165674&postcount=4

[Robert Mahoney (mahoneyr)]

Evidently FIXED for my system by 185.18.04. Will continue to test.

[ButterflyOfFire (butterflyoffire)]

Hi Tiny4eva, MockY and all people,

I'll will upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 then to 9.04 right now.
I'll install the Nvidia driver for my NVIDIA GeForce 6100 and hope this will work ;)

I return back here to let you know if everything is okay :)
Merci et salutations amicales

[ButterflyOfFire (butterflyoffire)]

Hi again,

I upgraded step by step. Ubuntu 8.04 => Ubuntu 8.10 then 9.04
When upgrade done :
CTRL + ALT + F2

I removed all the nvidia paquages :
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*

I downloaded : NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run for my AMD64/Ubuntu 64bits
from here :

wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/185.18.04/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run

I stopped Gnome Desktop Manager :
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

Then installed the driver :

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run

Then restarted GDM :
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

Everything is running smooth. I can carry on making new video tutorials to spread Ubuntu :)
Thanks everybody ;) Hope this will solve your problem with Nvidia GeForce 6100 too ;)

Salutations amicales

[Joseph Potter (joseph-m-potter)]

Hi,

I am the fellow who filed the forst bug on the 6100 problem. It seems like
it was years ago!

This works.

Thanks.

Regards, Joe Potter

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Athmane MOKRAOUI (ButterflyOfFire) <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I upgraded step by step. Ubuntu 8.04 => Ubuntu 8.10 then 9.04
> When upgrade done :
> CTRL + ALT + F2
>
> I removed all the nvidia paquages :
> sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*
>
> I downloaded : NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run for my AMD64/Ubuntu
> 64bits
> from here :
>
> wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/185.18.04/NVIDIA-
> Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run<ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/185.18.04/NVIDIA-%0ALinux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run>
>
> I stopped Gnome Desktop Manager :
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
>
> Then installed the driver :
>
> sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run
>
> Then restarted GDM :
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
>
> Everything is running smooth. I can carry on making new video tutorials to
> spread Ubuntu :)
> Thanks everybody ;) Hope this will solve your problem with Nvidia GeForce
> 6100 too ;)
>
> Salutations amicales
>
> --
> Nvidia does not work with Geforce 6100
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282214
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-177” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I have tried all nVidia drivers over the course of the development of
> Ubuntu Intrepid and none have worked with the nVidia Geforce 6100. As of
> October 12, I can report that the first beta with all upgrades does not work
> with the 6100 (Rev. A) on-board chip on the MB by BioStar.
>
> This graphics card works without a problem in all versions of Ubuntu until
> Intrepid.
>
> I have tried all 3 of the drivers that are now available for use in
> Intrepid.
>

[taka k. (scar)]

it sounds like version 185 is working then? but if you try to download the linux 64-bit driver from nvidia through the normal channel, they only provide version 180. rather than manually download and install version 185, when will it show up in the "hardware drivers" app, so it can just be installed automatically thru there?

[Joseph Potter (joseph-m-potter)]

It is true that I had to manually download the driver. It is still
"experimental" and not released into the repositories yet.

It works, and I have been waiting for a year and a half for a driver that
works properly. So, I can take the manual install!

Regards, Joseph

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:47 AM, scar <email address hidden> wrote:

> it sounds like version 185 is working then? but if you try to download
> the linux 64-bit driver from nvidia through the normal channel, they
> only provide version 180. rather than manually download and install
> version 185, when will it show up in the "hardware drivers" app, so it
> can just be installed automatically thru there?
>
> --
> Nvidia does not work with Geforce 6100
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282214
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-177” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I have tried all nVidia drivers over the course of the development of
> Ubuntu Intrepid and none have worked with the nVidia Geforce 6100. As of
> October 12, I can report that the first beta with all upgrades does not work
> with the 6100 (Rev. A) on-board chip on the MB by BioStar.
>
> This graphics card works without a problem in all versions of Ubuntu until
> Intrepid.
>
> I have tried all 3 of the drivers that are now available for use in
> Intrepid.
>

[taka k. (scar)]

ok i tried the following method, mentioned above:

wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/185.18.04/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg1.run
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

but it didn't work. i am seeing this message in the kernel log:

NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.04, but
NVRM: this kernel module has the version 180.51. Please
NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
NVRM: components have the same version.

i tried removing all nvidia drivers, modules, etc. with synaptic, but i think that was still the error.

[taka k. (scar)]

apparently, i did not quite remove all the modules. even tho the nvidia driver compiles the kernel module, apparently it doesn't get used unless the other modules are removed. running 'apt-get remove --purge nvidia*' beforehand did the trick. i now have 185.18.04 installed. however, i still cannot use 1280x1024 resolution. the monitor supports that mode. it is a dell 1901fp and i was using that mode in ms windows. the only thing i see above that i haven't tried is starting with ubuntu 8.04 and upgrading to 8.10 and then 9.04?? how ridiculous ;) i'm not going to do that. is that really necessary? there is obviously something related to nvidia/xorg that is in place on ubuntu 8.04 that doesn't get wiped away due to the upgrade process, i would guess. isn't there a way to force 1280x1024 in xorg.conf or something? this seems so simple...

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[kastanedowski (kastanedowski)]

Hei guys

I am new in ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty and I have just installed :
GNOME 2.26.1 (Ubuntu 2009-05-06)
Kernel .6.28-13-generic (#44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:57:31 UTC 2009)

in a AMD Athlon 64 , mother board Gigabyte (GA-K8N51GMF-9)
 with Nvidia 6100

now the crazy question..

Should I install the drivers from the producers pages for all these hardware?? or I can work as it is now??

I can read that even there are special drivers for linux for my processor, are they installed automatically or I have to do it manually?? sound has lower quality than using windows and I believe the graphics are poor and slow.

thanks

[kastanedowski (kastanedowski)]

Hi

Still with the problem, the graphics seems to work properly but the sound has a bad quality, I run windows in the same computer and the difference is amazing

Tried re-installing everything but still the same problem

any advice?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.

If your sound is distorted, please file a new bug for that issue. thanks.