NVIDIA driver not working anymore because of upgrade from 9631 to 9755 in feisty

[Jef]

Binary package hint: nvidia-glx

I have a NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200

Testing feisty, yesterday an upgrade of nvidia-glx from 1.0.9631 to 1.0.9755 break my 3D capability.

Here is the error message in Xorg.0.log :
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(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 1.0-9755 Mon Feb 26 23:23:13 PST 2007
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
(WW) NVIDIA(0): more information. The 1.0-9755 NVIDIA driver will ignore
(WW) NVIDIA(0): this GPU. Continuing probe...
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
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I then had no choice but switch to nvidia-glx-legacy (1.0.7184). Now I can load Xorg and see the desktop. Xorg.0.log shows :
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(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" is not used
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but, no 3D task can be performed. When I try glxgears for example, I can see the following error message :
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Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
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It is a bit sad because my GPU was able to run compiz/beryl right after installing the nvidia drivers from Ubuntu feisty repository, and now I cannot do it anymore.

(Suggestion : A package for NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers in Ubuntu repositories.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 26 15:25:25 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux jef-desktop 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[aent (aent)]

This breaks for me too, same error, nvidia geforce 2 go. The 96xx legacy drivers are also not in the repository, and the nvidia drivers are required for this laptop to work with any amount of stability.

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

me too

this renders Ubuntu FF useless to me

Please replace the removed 9631 drivers

[AndreaGiorgini (agiorg)]

Got the same problem here, with NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x.

[jbond00747 (jeff-cowart)]

I'm also having the same problem with my GeForce3.

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-common

answer yes - this will remove the entire restricted modules package and associated dependencies

cd /directory/where/the/downloaded/nvidia/installer9631/is

sudo sh NVIDIA-9631-installer

answer to to looking for a precompiled version

answer no to rewritting your xorg.conf

after its finished,

sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf

change "nv" to "nvidia"

reboot

welcome back to X

[lsalignon (lsalignon)]

Same problem.
I have downgrade my kernel version and use dpkg to install old nvidia-glx package and it works fine.

[japuzzo (japuzzo)]

Ran into this buy doing the following command: "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

2007-04-10 08:57:03 upgrade linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.4-14.15 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status half-configured linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status half-installed linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status half-installed linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:03 upgrade linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic 2.6.20.4-14.15 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status half-configured linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:03 status half-installed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:04 status half-installed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:05 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:05 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:05 upgrade linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-lowlatency 2.6.20.4-14.15 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:05 status half-configured linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-lowlatency 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:05 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-lowlatency 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:05 status half-installed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-lowlatency 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:06 status half-installed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-lowlatency 2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:06 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-lowlatency 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:07 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-lowlatency 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:07 upgrade nvidia-glx 1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-14.15 1:1.0.9631+2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:07 status half-configured nvidia-glx 1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:07 status unpacked nvidia-glx 1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:07 status half-installed nvidia-glx 1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:07 status half-installed nvidia-glx 1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-14.15
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status unpacked nvidia-glx 1:1.0.9631+2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status unpacked nvidia-glx 1:1.0.9631+2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status unpacked linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status half-configured linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2007-04-10 08:57:08 status installed linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.5-14.16
2...

[japuzzo (japuzzo)]

Found a simple fix: install nvidia-glx-new
This was missing from my system, once installed everything worked!

uname -a

Linux ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-14-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 2 16:35:43 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(aka AMD64 version)

lsb_release -a

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu feisty (development branch)
Release: 7.04
Codename: feisty

[Chris Lilley (chris-w3)]

I have tried both nvidia-glx-new and nvidia-glx - both give the same result, the x server will not start. I get the blinking cursor and have to copy back the old xorg.conf to continue. After installing the module, I am enabling with
sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals
I have also tried
sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --allow-glx-with-composite --depth=24

nvidia-xconfig seems to generate a good xorg.conf with my video card (Nvidia Quadro FX2500M, a G71 series card) recognised, correct screen dimensions of 1920x1200.
(the depth option is there because because one time, nvidia-xconfig seemed to set me up with a 16bit default visual).

I'm running kubuntu feisty beta, on a Dell Precision M90 laptop. The kernel is 2.6.20-14.

In the log, I see

Apr 11 01:02:56 Thirona kernel: [ 35.056000] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 1.0-9631, but
Apr 11 01:02:56 Thirona kernel: [ 35.056000] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 1.0-9755. Please
Apr 11 01:02:56 Thirona kernel: [ 35.056000] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
Apr 11 01:02:56 Thirona kernel: [ 35.056000] NVRM: components have the same version.