[Intrepid] nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex

[Gianfranco Liporace]

Binary package hint: nvidia-glx-96

Hi all,
just upgraded to Intrepid. Installed the proprietary driver for my old nvidia card (NV17GL [Quadro NVS] [10DE:17A]).
Restarted X, but got the failsafe window instead of GDM. Looking at th Xorg logs I noted this error:

 (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
 dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: Allo cateScreenPrivateIndex
 (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
 (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
 (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)

Attached the complete log file.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Currently nvidia-glx-96 and nvidia-glx-71 don't work with the new xserver. There is nothing we can do about it. NVIDIA should release a add the support for it sooner or later.

[Gianfranco Liporace (dr.kabuto)]

Thanks Alberto,
soon after my bug report, I've found this:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110899

[Matt Behrens (zigg)]

Shouldn't the -71 and -96 legacy drivers be made incompatible on a package level with the new xorg?

Something like Requires a version before whatever version the ABI change was made on. It seems to me it should not be possible to install these drivers on a system they will not work on.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Matt: I'm aware of the problem and I'm working on it. I'll also make sure that dist-upgrades to Intrepid go smoothly.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

In the past, driver packages would declare which ABI they provide, and later versions of xserver-xorg-video-core could conflict with these. Indeed, nvidia-glx-71 *currently* declares such a field:

 Package: nvidia-glx-71
 Provides: nvidia-glx, xserver-xorg-video-2.9

Should xserver-xorg-video-core conflict with xserver-xorg-video-2.9?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I see that the nvidia-glx-legacy package in hardy Provides: xserver-xorg-video-2, and the current xserver-xorg-core Conflicts: with this. So this doesn't appear to be a problem on upgrades.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I've added initial documentation of this issue at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseNotes#nVidia%20%22legacy%22%20video%20support>.

Alberto, will there be an automated upgrade path for nvidia users to xserver-xorg-video-nv or nvidia-glx-{173,177}, as appropriate? If so, do you have an ETA for this?

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Steve: all the nvidia packages provide an ABI which is not hardcoded. For example (currently) nvidia-glx-177 provides xserver-xorg-video-4 while -96 and -71 provide xserver-xorg-video-2.9. All it would take to make, say, -71, provide the current Xorg ABI it to rebuild it (which is what we will do when the new NVIDIA drivers are ready).

As regards dist-upgrades, I have worked with Michael Vogt so as to make sure that systems which require the -96 and -71 drivers will be migrated to the open source driver ("nv"). A package named nvidia-common does hardware detection so that Update Manager knows which driver should be installed while X-Kit (my xorg.conf parser/validator), which Michael has included in Update Manager, will set the driver to "nv" in the xorg.conf and remove the unsupported "RGBPath" option from the Files section (otherwise Xorg will crash, see #274866) when available.

Driver 173 and 177 don't support all the cards that -71 and -96 do, therefore the only fallback we have is the "nv" driver.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:18:36AM -0000, Alberto Milone wrote:
> Driver 173 and 177 don't support all the cards that -71 and -96 do,
> therefore the only fallback we have is the "nv" driver.

Correct - but what will happen on upgrade for cards that *are* supported by
173 and/or 177? Will update-manager pull in one of these (I hope the answer
is yes)?

How much of this is implemented/tested in update-manager today?

--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
<email address hidden> <email address hidden>

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

If cards are supported by either 173 or 177, nvidia-common will suggest the right package to install in 2 cases:
* if you're doing the dist-upgrade with Update Manager, then Update Manager will install the right driver automatically
* if you're doing the dist-upgrade from the command line, a debconf interface will show up and suggest the user to do, say, "sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-177", to install the new driver (and of course it will explain the problem).

As far as I know this is all implemented. Maybe Michael could confirm what I said.

[Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)]

Steve, the release notes should mention GeForce3 as well.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

thanks, added GeForce3 to the list.

[Arthur Peters (amp)]

So I see we are waiting on NVidia (and that could take a very long time), so I get the sense that Intrepid will be released with out working drivers for any of the older NVidia cards.

However I was wondering if it is planned to release an update which fixes this problem after the release. Is that planned?

Also this seems like a pretty severe issue and could hurt the image of Ubuntu with people who try it. Is canonical leaning on NVidia to try to get drivers out of them?

Sorry if this is not bug report material.

[cabbie (cabbiebatman)]

Same problem with a Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go 64MB video card.
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroLineScreenIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

[Solitaire (bill-s0l)]

Just to add myself to this bug list..

I have same problem as "cabbie" above but my card is the 16mb version..

[Gavin Jones (gavinj44)]

Also just to add myself to this bug list..

Mine is an Nvidia Quadro 280 NVS

[okmijn (azatom)]

Same problem.
Before the X error message:
"Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
  nvidia (96.43.05) [fail]"
---
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-96-kernel-source" :

Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Adding Module to DKMS build system
driver version= 96.43.05
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
Doing initial module build
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.27-7-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.05/build/ for more information.
Installing initial module
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Nincs ilyen fájl vagy könyvtár

Error! Could not locate nvidia.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (i686) first.
Done.

[okmijn (azatom)]

..continue:
(uname-r: 2.6.27-7-generic)
"dkms build -m nvidia -v 2.6.27-7-generic"

Error! DKMS tree does not contain: nvidia-2.6.27-7-generic
Build cannot continue without the proper tree.

[Michael Devenish (mdevenish)]

Also adding myself to this bug list.

Nvidia GeForce2 MX 32mb (71 series driver).

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

It's useless that everyone comment on this bugreport "I'm experiencing
that problem".

Both the bug and the solution is simple: wait a new nvidia driver for
GeForce cards before FX series.
Ubuntu can't fix this bug until nvidia releases a new driver.

If you want to suscribe, just click on the right.

[Alessandro Rinaldi (rinaldi-aless)]

Sorry for the OT, but I'm very angry for this and other things!
I have an OpenChrome video card and I have a lot of problems.
I'm asking myself: I bought a graphic card, I PAID it, why can't I use it???
I consider it a theft, 'cause it IS a theft! They don't allow me to
use a thing that I bought!
Closed drivers... why???
Drivers are always freeware, so what's the difference for factories if
they make them open source???
I really can't take it anymore, we must do something!!!

Ok sorry for this unuseful mail, ban me if you want, but I become very
angry when I see those things!!!

--
Per favore non mandatemi allegati in formati proprietari, come DOC o PPT.
Si veda http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.it.html

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

I did lots of searching on the net regarding this problem, what I found is that 2.6.27 has been out there for months and this OLD driver has been known for a good long while. several distros have been "waiting" for months for this updated old drivers release. Alberto makes it seem like it just around the corner, but might not make it for the release date.

So, I'm asking: has anyone ACTUALLY contacted Nvidia and discussed with them their intent ? WHEN do they plan on releasing updated OLD drivers ? or are the devs here just assuming that Nivida will get around to it someday ?

I have a notebook, I don't have the options of changing my video card - Geforce2 GO. it ran fine with the old drivers on hardy, however the new kernel 2.6.27 is far superior to 2.6.24 and memory requirements for 8.10 are much less than 8.04, I would much more like to run ubuntu 8.10 than 8.04 but if I cannot get the drivers I need then I can't use 8.10.

SO, again, as much as we CAN know, what has Nvidia actually said about the old drivers and support for the new xorg ?

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

just to be clear, several people here said just be patient and wait, it will be fixed and old drivers updated by Nvidia....my point was that several distros have been waiting already for months for this bug fix for the old drivers and they are still waiting. Telling people to be patient implies that a release fix is impending from Nvidia. People are reporting this bug because they want to use the Nvidia drivers, NOT the nv open source drivers.

we need something more definitive than just be patient, nv drivers prevent me from using googleearth, nv drivers are too slow or don't work at all with VM's. so open source video drivers are not a solution for me, and I would guess not for the other people who are reporting the bug.

Silently migrating to nv drivers is NOT the solution if you do not tell the end user that they have no other choice until Nvidia comes thru. Like I said above, other distros have been waiting for Nvidia to come thru for months now.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Gene:
Update Manager will inform users about the current situation so that they can decide whether it's wise for them to dist-upgrade to Intrepid or not.

We don't know when NVIDIA will release new legacy drivers and it looks like their employees are not allowed to give estimates:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1797121&postcount=64

I am a volunteer and as such I can only promise to do my best to get the new drivers into Intrepid (NOTE: the SRU team will have to approve this) when they are released.

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

and Alberto, you do an awesome job ! there was no dissatisfaction with your work regarding this, it was the absence of statements about this problem and concerns about how to know if we should upgrade or not if we have a working accelerated driver in hardy.

This is really frustrating as the new 8.10 appears to be the very best release I have seen, I actually booted the live CD and installed 8.10 RC on a computer with only 256 mb ram and a celeron 600 CPU. I really wanted this release on my old notebook that has an Nvidia card and would have loved to use the new wireless networking.

Someone needs to post and let the world know that 8.10 uses far less memory at run time and requires far less memory to install.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Alberto Milone [2008-10-27 10:42 -0000]:
> I am a volunteer and as such I can only promise to do my best to get the
> new drivers into Intrepid (NOTE: the SRU team will have to approve this)
> when they are released.

Since they can hardly become worse, that bit is a no-op. :-)

However, I can only echo the call for not making more noise here. As
the hardware drivers window and the place in the archive
("restricted") point out, we cannot do *anything* to fix it, but
begging nvidia. If they don't do anything about it and shrug at their
customers for older graphics cards, you should take this into account
when you buy your next computer or graphics card.

--
Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)

[Aaron Plattner (aplattner)]

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122139

[Takahani (simon-esneault)]

Thx nvidia, this beta driver is working fine for me.

Fixed !

[J.M. Hardin (jmhardin)]

Sweetness! Now I just have to track down a tutorial on how to get it built and installed. Unless Alberto has already provided the info and I simply haven't seen it yet.

[Takahani (simon-esneault)]

- Download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.09-pkg1.run (or the other one if you're running a 64 bit system) to your home folder (/home/simon/ for me)
- switch to pty1 (CTRL+ALT+F1)
- log in
- sudo service kdm stop (will kill X server) (or gdm if you are running gnome)
- sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.09-pkg1.run
- say yes to everything (will compile nvidia kernel module)
- sudo reboot now (reboot now !!)

And that should be enough, login and check that "glxinfo | grep direct" says "YES"

Worked for me, kubuntu 8.10 32 bits, old geforce TI 4200
Good luck !
Simon

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

guess I'll have to wait for Alberto too, no clue how to grab it and get it installed/working. However I did not see anything posted about which legacy cards were supported. I have a notebook with a Geforce2 Go and had to use the 71.xx legacy driver in hardy, I see nothing about this new driver supporting the same cards that the 71.xx driver did.

[Charly (charles-burry)]

Working fine with my GeForce4 TI 4200. Fixed!

Thks!!!!!

Charles

[J.M. Hardin (jmhardin)]

Thanks, Takahani! I copied your steps to my PDA and it worked like a charm. I can run Compiz again! Now I just have to pull up http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1826952#post1826952 and fix the white window issue.

I owe you a beer, Takahani. :)

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

actually I posted at the same time as the post with instructions above, new drivers are installed and working just fine for a Geforce2 Go. One little issue, compiz will not enable ( desktop effects ) but I believe that the compiz test says the old card just does not meet minimal requirements (32mb). I don't remember how to override the test now since compiz worked just fine in hardy, and I stopped having to use the override. if anyone can shed some light please do so.....

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

I tried to install Takahani and it failed compiling. I've attached my nvidia-installer.log -- do I need to install more packages for this to work...?

[Takahani (simon-esneault)]

Yo,
I think you need the package "linux-headers-2.6.27-7" (that's his ubuntu name). Also check that you don't have some old kernel headers left like 2.6.24 or something. But i'm not sure of this :)

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

I have linux-headers-2.6.27-7 installed. I'll give it a go with old headers moved away.

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

No change :(

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

I warmly recommend you to wait for my new packages since the NVIDIA installer may break symlinks of the official packages and therefore cause problems if you decide to go back to the packages provided by Ubuntu (this is something I would like to solve together with NVIDIA).

I'll make sure that the new packages are made available in the -proposed repositories ASAP.

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

Ok, sounds good...!

[TitoN (titon2k)]

Do you know when this could be possible? Is it days, weeks, months?
Really appreciate your work. Thank you.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

SRU request:

The following links contain the beta versions of the nvidia drivers 71 and 96 which work with the new X.org ABI:
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/newlrm/pitti/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/newlrm/pitti/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1.dsc
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/newlrm/pitti/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.09.orig.tar.gz

http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/newlrm/pitti/nvidia-graphics-drivers-71_71.86.07-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/newlrm/pitti/nvidia-graphics-drivers-71_71.86.07-0ubuntu1.dsc
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/newlrm/pitti/nvidia-graphics-drivers-71_71.86.07.orig.tar.gz

It would be wise to remove these drivers from the blacklist in Jockey so that users can install them.

[JohnnyB (rtlnts-lcpd)]

Alberto, how does one generate .deb packages from your files?

Thanks a lot for getting the fix ready for release so quickly!

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

JohnnyB: those links are meant to be used by someone who can upload them (a core-dev) after the ubuntu-sru team approves the upload. Then packages for the drivers will be built and you'll be able to test them.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Using the above packages I have noticed and documented a font rendering regression affecting KDE3 and Wine apps for the 96 series driver: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122350

I believe that this still should be released despite the potential regressions this update presents. This release *does* fix just about the most serious regression software can have after all. :P You can't know how excited I was to have usable 3D drivers again.

[Alex Stansfield (casualgenius)]

JohnnyB:

If you, or other people, like me really want 3d back and just can't wait, I built the packages like so:

1. Download tar.gz and diff.gz files
2. create a directory (e.g nvidiadrivers), move the downloaded file into it and enter it
3. untar the tarball: tar -zxvf nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.09.orig.tar.gz
4. unzip the diff: gunzip nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
5. enter the unpacked directory: cd nvidia-graphics-drivers-96-96.43.09
6. patch the files: patch -p1 < ../nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1.diff
7. get the build dependancies: sudo apt-get build-dep nvidia-glx-96
8. make debian/rules executable: chmod a+x debian/rules
9. unpack the drivers: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.09-pkg0.run -x (not sure why it didn't automatically do this but it failed if I didn't do it)
10. make binaries: sudo debian/rules binary

Binary deps should be created in the parent directory. Install them with dpkg -i. When I did this it didn't like one of the driver files I already had installed so I ran 'sudo apt-get install -f' to fix it. Then ran the dpkg -i again and it worked fine.

Please note, there is another extractable installer in there call NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-96.43.09-pkg2.run. I guess this is for 64bit drivers so if you're building for 64bit you may need to extract that one too (see step 9).

If anyone knows a way of doing this with less steps please let me know.

[Alex Stansfield (casualgenius)]

Just to point out, as I'm sure you'll notice anyway, the instructions above are for the 96 drivers. The 71 driver is most likely the same process but having not done it I can't guarantee it.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Alex: I would do it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get build-dep nvidia-glx-96
dpkg-source -x nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1.dsc
cd nvidia-graphics-drivers-96
debuild -B

[JohnnyB (rtlnts-lcpd)]

I'm getting this for "sudo apt-get build-dep nvidia-glx-96":

E: Unable to find a source package for nvidia-graphics-drivers-96

Coud I be missing something? Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Solitaire (bill-s0l)]

If you have a laptop and are experiencing a Blank Screen when you install the Nvidia drivers. Try the following:

If you have laptop try the following change your xorg.conf

Add the following lines to the "Device" section:

Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

it should look something like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

First additional line forces the Drivers to display on the laptop screen instead of a CRT.
Second line fixes the "white screen" issue people are seeing with these drivers.

Then reboot. it should work now.

Many thanks to magnuseh @ NVNews.net forums for this trick.
(http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122152)

[greenhunter (tierfreunde-hagenburg)]

DKMS exists with [fail] on two boots. [8.10]

I installed the new 96. package + dependencies via Synaptic.

--
On 8.04.1 96. works fine with my Nvidia to go 32 MB

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

greenhunter: what happens if you type this command?
sudo dpkg -i nvidia-96-kernel-source*.deb

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

greenhunter: also, please read the instructions in the link in comment 51

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

Should I install all four deb files...? And do I need to reboot afterwards...? Thanks for getting this out so fast...!

I have:
nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-96-modaliases_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-96-dev_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

[greenhunter (tierfreunde-hagenburg)]

> greenhunter: what happens if you type this command?
> sudo dpkg -i nvidia-96-kernel-source*.deb

it tells me "no such file found"

i rechecked if nvidia-96-kernel-source is installed and "sudo apt-get install nvidia-96-kernel-source" tells me newest version installed.

---

Comment 51 is that from Solitaire?

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Joel:
Install the packages in the following order:
nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-96-modaliases_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

(you don't need the -dev package)

then restart your computer.

greenhunter: 51 is Martin's comment. The link to the instructions is the following:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed

[GourdCaptain (saunders-52)]

I enabled the proposed repositories in synaptic to download the update, and the only version listed was 96.43.05.

[John Harrington (j-fharrington)]

I have a GeForce4 MX 4000 card. I installed the nvidia-glx-96 package, ver. 96.43.09, via Synaptic, and rebooted, but the driver doesn't load. Xorg.log shows the following:

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
 compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
 Module class: X.Org Server Extension
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module 96.43.09 Mon Oct 27 14:37:08 PST 2008
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "freetype" The driver doesn't load.

Jockey doesn't show any proprietary driver.

GourdCaptain: You have to reload after adding new repository.

[carrerasg (carrerag)]

Thanks to everyone for making this package ready. And thanks to Solitaire for the laptop configuration tips which I needed immediately upon reboot :)

Working good on my GeForce4 440 Go 32MB.

Sure is nice to have Compiz working again.

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

I have a TNT 2 card. I installed the nvidia 71 package, ver. 71.86.07, via Synaptic, and rebooted, but the driver doesn't load. Xorg.log shows the following:

X.Org X Server 1.5.2
Release Date: 10 October 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Current Operating System: Linux xav-ubuntu 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:18:38 UTC 2008 i686
(--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] rev 21, Mem @ 0xce000000/0, 0xca000000/0, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
(II) "extmod" will be loaded by default.
(II) "dbe" will be loaded by default.
(II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
(II) "freetype" will be loaded by default.
(II) "record" will be loaded by default.
(II) "dri" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module 71.86.07 Wed Oct 22 04:28:49 PDT 2008
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for v4l
(--) NV: Found NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 at 01@00:00:0

AS john said Jockey doesn't show any proprietary driver.
Xavier.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

John Harrington, Xavier:
please attach the following files:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

and the output of this command:
ls -R /var/lib/dkms/nvidia

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

And the drivers won't show up in Jockey because they are still blacklisted (this will be fixed as soon as the drivers are moved to the stable repositories)

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

alberto :

ls -R /var/lib/dkms/nvidia

 then : ls: ne peut accéder /var/lib/dkms/nvidia: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

in english "ls can't access to /var bla bla bla There is no file or folder like this"

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
...

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

end last : /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

Thanks Albert -- only one problem left is that when I use System -> Preferences -> Appearence Visual Effects I can get the message "Desktop effects could not be enabled". Glxgears runs fine, though...

[J.M. Hardin (jmhardin)]

Thanks for the new packages, Alberto. I can't use the rotating cube yet but I do have Compiz and I have the desktop zoom back, which I realize I use more than I thought I did. Add another beer to my tab. :D

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Joel: I guess that depends on the fact that Jockey checks the availability of the driver (which is currently blacklisted) before enabling the 3D effects.

Xavier: type: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
and try to install the driver again.

[greenhunter (tierfreunde-hagenburg)]

after the packages finally arrived on the main server.

96. Driver works ok so far.

I had to enable it in xorg.conf
  Driver "nvidia"
  Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

Tested: Compiz on/off, external Flatscreen, and 3D Game (Regnum Online)

no crahs, no problems.

thx, Alberto you saved my day ;)

[Rizwan Roker (rizwanroker-gmail)]

Hello Alberto, thanks for all the work that you do.

I am using a TNT2 card and just installed the 71 driver packages from the proposed repository (just in the order you told somebody to install) but it seems still my computer is using nv drivers.
I already did sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic but the result is:
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version.

I am attaching the following files:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Output of ls -R /var/lib/dkms/nvidia

[Rizwan Roker (rizwanroker-gmail)]

Thanks in advance Alberto!

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

Ok -- I've tried putting Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" Drivers, but no change. Greenhunter, how did you get Compiz working...?

[Rizwan Roker (rizwanroker-gmail)]

Do I have to enable the use of new drivers by editing xorg.conf like greenhunter did?

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Rizwan: set the driver to "nvidia" instead of "nv" in the Device section of your xorg.conf

[greenhunter (tierfreunde-hagenburg)]

Joel:

 - select proposed sources.
 - update (from the main server)
 - in synaptic search for "nvidia" and select/install your driver with dependencies.
 - add to xorg:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

 - restart x with strg-alt-backspace

 - to activate compiz go to system/settings

[Martin von Gagern (gagern)]

Proposed package works for me. Dell Inspiron 8200 with nVidia GeForce4 440 GO/PCI/SSE2.

My xorg.conf has grown over many years and multiple distributions and is quite customized. For Intrepid I changed the Driver from nvidia to nv. Simply reverting that change got things working again. Don't use compiz, but if glxinfo is happy, I assume compiz would be as well.

Thanks!

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

Alberto,

" Xavier: type: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
and try to install the driver again. "

I did and after reboot I could only have a console mode. :-(

Dkms status said :
Nvidia 71.86.07, 2.6.27-7 generic, installed

I had to type : envyng -t and uninstall Nvidia driver.

After reboot, xserver started. But of course no drivers.
Xavier.

[Kayvee (vkkodali)]

Update manager found new drivers this morning and after installation, 3D acceleration is back! Thank you Alberto.

lspci -nn | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000] [10de:0185] (rev c1)

[Rizwan Roker (rizwanroker-gmail)]

Alberto:

"Rizwan: set the driver to "nvidia" instead of "nv" in the Device section of your xorg.conf"

Just did that and got an error. Intrepid switched back to using "nv" drivers.

I am attaching my Xorg.0.log again.

[Alex Stansfield (casualgenius)]

Alberto:
Many thanks for the tip. I feel slightly ashamed that I've been a debian/ubuntu user for quite a few years now and never realised you could use the .dsc file for this. This should save me a lot of steps in the future.

JohnnyB:
I'm afraid I'm not sure what the problem is but it seems that these drivers are now available in a binary form in intrepid-proposed so you're probably enjoying 3d delights already :)

[J.M. Hardin (jmhardin)]

Sorry, I probably should have specified that I am using the 96 drivers.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Rizwan: can you attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old too?

[Rizwan Roker (rizwanroker-gmail)]

My /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old doesn't seem to hold any information.

I'm attaching it anyway as you instructed

[dean (3dxtrip)]

Many thanks!

Works fine with my Geforce4

Installed the nvidia-glx-96 and tweak xorg.conf on device section, added:

Driver "nvidia"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

Rebooted and now works.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

Installed the new driver from Proposed and everything is working great. GeForce2 Go
Thanks for all your hard work Alberto!

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

I've updated and installed the new driver from proposed, but still no compiz. I've attached my xorg.conf. Can someone have a look at it please, and let me know any errors / omissions...?

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Nick B.: what driver did you install? 96 or 71?

Joel: what happens if you type this command?
compiz --replace

[Frank Fiselier (NL) (c-launchpad-fiselier-fietst-nl)]

Alberto,

I'm as far as Rizwan Roker was a hour ago. My box has a TNT Ultra card and falls back to the basic driver.

Any suggestion yet?

Gr, F2

[Dave Jones (dgjones)]

I'm struggling with this as well.

I've got a Geforce2 Go 32mb card in a laptop, I've installed 81.86.04-0ubuntu10 (intrepid) from Restricted (I'm not sure if this is the same versions thats suggested above in proposed).

I get various info back as follows from the different suggestions in the thread

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

dkms status
nvidia, 71.86.04: added

lspci -nn | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 Go] [10de:0112] (rev b2)

My Xorg.0.log is attached

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

Alberto, I installed the 96 driver.

[Jackdaw28 (simoncsoka)]

The 96 driver works with my Geforce4 Go 440 64MB, however the fonts are now corrupt with wine, even in winecfg itself. This is not a missing fonts issue because the fonts are correct again if I revert to the "nv" driver. Also whether or not compiz is enabled makes no difference. I did not have this problem with the nvidia driver and Hardy.

[Jackdaw28 (simoncsoka)]

I suspect the wine font problem is a regression to this old nvidia bug detailed here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258964

The picture of winecfg looks like mine.
It's a bit of a deal breaker if wine cannot be used.

[pipghishd (z-launchpad-arcane-pigphish-com)]

Worked on Geforce go 7600 on Hp dv9000 series laptop. Good work and thank you.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The KDE3/Wine font bug was documented here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122350 as I mentioned yesterday. ;-)
imo broken fonts are better than no 3D driver at all.

[J.M. Hardin (jmhardin)]

Exactly, jackdaw. I'm looking at having to reboot using my onboard Intel video chips just to be able to set some things up in WINE. Once I get them set up I can get some things done, but as of right now the issue is driving me crazy. I hope we can get that bugger fixed soon, because I'm finding myself suggesting people use Hardy if they have an Nvidia card and they need to run WINE.

[J.M. Hardin (jmhardin)]

Not if the application window looks like http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=90774&d=1225643559 I can't even load an existing file into that screen because I can't see what's what and it doesn't quite adhere to the customary File menu items. Namely loading the file, which I haven't been able to do without being able to see the menu items.

[dean (3dxtrip)]

I've got a problem with these drivers on Xubuntu 8.10 and XFCE 4.4.3.

With composite activaded can't see de icon's text on Desktop
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3296/nvidiaissue1xq2.png

Same thing with Opera:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4471/nvidiaopera1pk6.png

When Composite is off can see the text.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1062/sinnombreju7.png

Thanks

[Gianluca Zanferrari (zanferrari)]

Just installed the new 96 drivers. I have a geforce2 MX 400 (64 Mb).

Needed to modify manually the xorg.conf (device part) like this:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

now it is working.

Thnx a lot Alberto.

[Dave Jones (dgjones)]

I've now enabled -proposed and installed the 71.86 driver with no success.

From a clean install of intrepid, my xorg.conf looks like:-

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "nvidia"
# Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
# Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

With the Driver "nvidia" and the lines immediately afterwards added in manually.

Without the lines included, I can boot up ok and get a resolution of 1600x1200 as normal, but no GLX etc, with the lines included, the machine will only boot up into low graphics mode.

I've attached Xorg.0.log.old which shows the error when the driver is set as nvidia.

Hopefully, somebody can advise me what needs to be corrected.

[Dave Jones (dgjones)]

And Xorg.0.log when the driver isn't specified in xorg.conf is as attached

[Mikko Rönkkö (mikko-ronkko)]

Does not seem to work.

mronkko@hondchan:~$ tail -n15 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
mronkko@hondchan:~$ dkms status
nvidia, 71.86.07, 2.6.27-7-generic, i686: installed (original_module exists)

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Ok, it looks like the problem was not fixed in driver 71 but only in 96.

[Kayvee (vkkodali)]

I can confirm that KDE3 and Wine applications do not show fonts after installing nVidia 96 drivers. 3D acceleration and desktop effects work fine though. My Wine applications and digiKam (KDE3 application) do not show any fonts.

In the attached screenshot, I show three windows:
1. Notice the menus in the Notepad - the fonts are not there!
2. Notice that the tags in digiKam are not present.
3. Notice the menus in Kile - none of the menu items are visible.
Menu items in digiKam show same behavior (not shown).

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

JUST an FYI to Alberto and anyone with an older NV11 or so GPU, I installed the Nvidia driver that was posted in this thread late last week(96.x), directly from the nvidia web site per the instructions that were posted here. then Alberto strongly suggested that we wait for the ubuntu deb package, but it was already too late for me. However the install went flawless and I have been running the great since last week when they were released. I have a laptop with a GeForce2 Go (NV11) GPU and installed the 96.x version when I had previously had to use the 71.xx drivers. maybe, just maybe the 71.x drivers aren't really needed anymore since I am running compiz without any problems, however I don't do WINE as its not ready for prime time yet. I'm just wondering why so many NV11 GPU's are having install issues when mine went flawless. (I'm not looking forward to the broken symlinks when they show up that Alberto said could happen ). maybe they already have, because I do not see any new restricted drivers showing up in synaptic or the driver manager app. just now, but I'm running better than ever.

PS, I did a clean install of 8.10, not an upgrade, maybe that could be the problem. in the past restricted drivers and upgrades ALWAYS caused me to execute a clean fresh install in the end to get things working. ( however this is the first time I have ever upgraded (from 8.04 to 8.10) and the restricted drivers installed as expected on other computers that were running the 177.x drivers and 173.x.)

[Victor (s-admin-2famo-us)]

I have managed to solve the fonts problem (the OpenOffice interface - all the fonts - was messed up with the Compiz enabled/96.43.09 nVidia driver) by choosing "Subpixel (LCDs)" in the Smoothing section from System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Details... .
I hope this will help or will give some hints regarding the fonts issue.

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

Ii should clarify my point, in the past the 96.x drivers would not install or enable on my GeForce2 Go laptop, so I was forced to use the 71.x drivers. This time however the 96.xx drivers installed without complaint - even if it was directly from the Nvidia web site using the Nvidia installer. So, do the 96.xx drivers now officially support the older GPU's ?

as far as font issues, I have always enabled subpixel font rendering so I have never seen any font issues with any restricted drivers.

[Rodrigo Pinheiro (ametade)]

Hi everybody,

I have a GeForce4 MX440 and the proposed driver solved my problem. :)

Best regards
Rodrigo

[Twiggy (alfredo-zullino)]

It works perfectly! Just install nvidia-glx-96 from Synaptic and modify manually xorg.conf in the same way other users did and reboot. Thanks so much Alberto.

P. S. You are from Lecce, right? :) I live in Brindisi and I work in Lecce! :) You're the best man! ;)

[Kayvee (vkkodali)]

Victor: The fonts issue I mentioned earlier is not fixed upon changing subpixel rendering thing. I think it is an unrelated issue. I wonder if it is specific to only a few people though...

[Mikel González (mikelglez)]

It works perfectly with my GeForce2 MX64

[racitup (racitup)]

I think there might be a problem with the archive.ubuntu.com mirrors for these packages. I've persuaded Synaptic to let me select the updated packages, but when I hit apply I get:

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.99 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/nvidia-96-modaliases_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.99 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/nvidia-glx-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.99 80]

...and sure enough they're not there if I browse with firefox, just:
nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_amd64.deb
nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-96-dev_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_amd64.deb
nvidia-glx-96-dev_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-96_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_amd64.deb
nvidia-glx-96_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_i386.deb
nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.05-0ubuntu10.diff.gz
nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.05-0ubuntu10.dsc
nvidia-graphics-drivers-96_96.43.05.orig.tar.gz

Maybe some of us will just have to wait 'til the mirrors are updated :(

[GourdCaptain (saunders-52)]

These drivers work on my machine (with a Geforce 4MX) perfectly so far (after being installed with Synaptic from intrepid-proposed) for 2D use other than the following two issues:
1. It detected the resolution of my eMachines monitor of unknown model: It set the resolution automatically as 840x525 (Only the middle two-thirds of which was shown on my screen), which gets my official WTF vote, but nvidia-settings let me clear it up and pick the preferred resolution of 1024x768.
2. Wine configuration panel and wine apps themselves are rather... screwed up in appearance.

Still, since it doesn't run as slow as VESA, or as annoyingly low-resolution as NV, this is my current driver of choice.

[EdgarAllen (haveyouseenthischicken)]

racitup, I had that issue this morning when the packages were first submitted. It took about an hour for the 404 error to stop.

I am still a relative new and uninformed user. I've only been using Ubuntu for a few months now and still haven't figured out all the commands and whatnot for things. What I am looking for is a command to find out which driver is currently in use?

I have an old Geforce2 GTS. I tried installing the 71.X drivers. Failed to load module "nvidia"... Same error. Someone above mentioned that they tried the 96.x drives and they worked for them on a card that used to use the 71.x drivers, so I tried that. The driver loaded fine and then told me that my GPU was not support on the driver and gave a device not found error. I removed all the packages again. This time when I removed the nvidia-xx-modaliases packages, it asked to remove envyng-core, envyng-gtk, and nvidia-common as well. I then installed the `nvidia-71-kernel-source` package which installed `nvidia-71-glx`with it. When that was done, I installed the nvidia modaliases packages and rebooted. Same error as before, Failed to load module "nvidia"...
In the menu that popped up, I told it to reconfigure for the default generic device, and rebooted. After logging in and everything finished booting, the "New Restricted Driver In Use" icon appeared in the panel and it says the nvidia driver is in use.

I tried `compiz --replace` to see if that would start, but it gave the no whitelisted driver found error and reverted to metacity.

I am getting conflicted reports on which driver is actually in use.

Cheers,
EdgarAllen

[darioice (darioumma)]

Driver 96.43.09 works for me after changed "nv" to "nvidia" in device section of xorg.conf.
Rendering : Yes, Compiz Ok.
I have a nvidia Geforce2 MX/MX 400.

Thank you all

Dario

[John Harrington (j-fharrington)]

Driver 96.43.09 now works for me after changing the "Device" section of xorg.conf to read as follows (copied from prior version of xorg.conf file):

Section "Device"
 Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000]"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
 Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
 Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Mille grazie sig. Milone.

[Hafidz Nasruddin (apisznasdin)]

Hi everybody,

I have NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] and have problem when building dkms module.

root@sputra:~# aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install nvidia-glx-96
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nvidia-96-kernel-source{a} nvidia-glx-96
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6322kB of archives. After unpacking 19.9MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-96-kernel-source.
(Reading database ... 118594 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-96-kernel-source (from .../nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx-96.
Unpacking nvidia-glx-96 (from .../nvidia-glx-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-96-kernel-source (96.43.09-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Adding Module to DKMS build system
driver version= 96.43.09
Doing initial module build

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.27-7-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.09/build/ for more information.
Installing initial module

Error! Could not locate nvidia.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (i686) first.
Done.

Setting up nvidia-glx-96 (96.43.09-0ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

[Mikko Rönkkö (mikko-ronkko)]

I have a TNT 2 Ultra card and the 96 drivers seem to work just fine. I have not tested it thoroughly though. If I find problems, I will report them here.

[Joel Barker (j-cimb-barker)]

Alberto:

> Joel: what happens if you type this command?
> compiz --replace

compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for Xgl: present.
Enabling Xgl with nVidia drivers...
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: Root visual is not a GL visual
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

I removed xgl, and all was fine. Thanks for all your help, if you're ever in London I owe you some pints...!

[Rizwan Roker (rizwanroker-gmail)]

I've got a Nvidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro card. When searching for drivers on nvidia's website they redirect me to Version: 71.86.06 drivers which I've not tried yet. (I've only tried the 71 deb packages from the proposed repo) If the company recommends to install the 71 drivers I don't think installing 96 drivers would be the perfect solution. There are might be some problem somewhere otherwise the drivers recommended by company are always right for your card. I know this because I've faced this problem on windows in the past. When I searched for the windows driver version of my card, the company's site redirected me to the latest legacy drivers for windows but when I ran the installer it gave me an error that "No supported device found for these drivers". But when I force installed those drivers (didn't allow the OS to mess with the driver installation), drivers worked like a charm. With the latest 71 drivers I was even able to play some games that didn't seem to work anytime in the past.

So as Alberto said "Ok, it looks like the problem was not fixed in driver 71 but only in 96." I trust him and will wait for the problem (whatever it is) to be fixed in 71 drivers. I would try installing the 71 drivers provided by nvidia's website rather than trying out 96 drivers which are for other cards.

[s.O.f.o.s (sogomaru)]

i have geforce4 ti 4200, i did these
Install the packages in the following order:
nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-96-modaliases_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

then editted the xorg.conf file

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

also i checked glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes

the problem is that i still cant fix the resolution, the only options are 640x480 , 320x240 ,50hz

[daveh (david-huckfield)]

Similar to s.O.f.o.s above but I have a GeForce 4 MX440 card.

I edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf as above and then after ctlr+alt+backspace I get

"Ubuntu running in low-graphics mode"
Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
No drivers available.

Anyone any ideas what I needed to do that the others have done and suceeded?
Thanks

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I just uploaded a new jockey to intrepid-proposed which shows version 96 again, since that seems to work well. It still hides version 71, though, since that still seems to be broken. Please test this new jockey and report back in bug 293107 (or here). Thank you!

[daveh (david-huckfield)]

Martin,
I assume your request for f/b is a general one and not just to me..but nevertheless...

I just did an update and see nvidia as a proprietary hardware driver in System>Admin>Hardware Drivers.
It activates fine but still get the problem as stated above. So driver still not working for me.

A small issue...The wording in Hardware Drivers (I guess this is what you mean by jockey?) refers to nvidia-71 and not 96.

[Elfy (elfy)]

Hi - just a bit of information really, at the moment I don't actually have any problems with the 96 driver but

On a default installation I was able to install the 96.43.09 driver and once I'd edited my xorg.conf started properly. After I'd changed the repos to those for jaunty - nothing was reported to be updated so that is good.

On my normal installation the driver installed properly over the top of an already installed nvidia .run driver - I'd installed that one as soon as it became available and before I found this bug.

But on neither of the installations did jockey inform me of there being a proprietary driver available - as I'd looked on my normal installation first I assumed that it was because of the already installed nVidia driver.

As the same thing happened on the new and default install I now assume that to be not the case.

I don't appear to have had yet a jockey update, if though it's down to servers catching up and jockey shows the driver I will come back and say so - I'm in the UK using the main server as repo source

[francesco (makemebad)]

Hi everybody,
driver 96 works for me with GeForce 4 Ti 4200.

I had to upgrade kernel to 2.6.27 (I don't know why distro upgrade didn't).

Grazie Alberto
Ciao

[Dave Jones (dgjones)]

Just a quick update, after updates today which included a jockey-gtk update, I was offered the choice of the 96. driver rather than the 71. driver which I'd previously had to use for my Geforce2 Go 32mb graphics card in a laptop.

After install and restart, everything seems to be working fine.it looks like compiz works ok (although I don't use it).

Thanks to Alberto and the team for their work getting this working.

[Dave Jones (dgjones)]

One thing I've just noticed is that the frame rate disclosed by glxgears is extremely slow.

glxgears
79 frames in 5.1 seconds = 15.565 FPS
86 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17.183 FPS
69 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13.754 FPS
101 frames in 5.0 seconds = 20.171 FPS
102 frames in 5.0 seconds = 20.217 FPS
102 frames in 5.0 seconds = 20.255 FPS

In the past using earlier versions of ubuntu with the older driver, I've had much better frame rates, admittedly not in the 1,000's of FPS (it is an 8 year old graphics card), but (from memory) in the region of 750+FPS
.
I've attached xorg.0.log in the hope that somebody can suggest a solution to improve the FPS.

Thanks in advance

[s.O.f.o.s (sogomaru)]

@ francesco
what did you do to make it work?
i mentioned what i did a few posts above you.
what did you do different?
hope it will work for me..

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

@dgjones

For reference I have your same exact GPU, I get 440+ FPS while compiz is running with an 850mhz CPU. I do nothing special in setup and as I recall, SBA and FW's are not supported on that card, so there's no tweaking.

code:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status

or

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/registry

or

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card

or

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

@dgjones
wow ! those commands no longer work, and I have no clue what new commands provide the info that we need. sorry, maybe someone else knows the new commands ?

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

these two work:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/registry

or

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

you should get what you need there:

gene@runabout:~$ glxgears
2088 frames in 5.0 seconds = 417.542 FPS
2207 frames in 5.0 seconds = 441.245 FPS
2226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 444.931 FPS
2132 frames in 5.0 seconds = 426.196 FPS
2245 frames in 5.0 seconds = 448.984 FPS
2225 frames in 5.0 seconds = 444.952 FPS
2225 frames in 5.0 seconds = 444.871 FPS
2213 frames in 5.0 seconds = 442.170 FPS
2112 frames in 5.0 seconds = 422.347 FPS

gene@runabout:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/registry
VideoMemoryTypeOverride: 1
EnableVia4x: 0
EnableALiAGP: 0
NvAGP: 3
ReqAGPRate: 15
EnableAGPSBA: 0
EnableAGPFW: 0
SoftEDIDs: 1
Mobile: [phone]
ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
FlatPanelMode: 0
DevicesConnected: 0
RmLogonRC: 1
VbiosFromROM: 0
ModifyDeviceFiles: 1
DeviceFileUID: 0
DeviceFileGID: 0
DeviceFileMode: 438
RemapLimit: 0
UpdateMemoryTypes: 4294967295
DetectPrimaryVga: 1
EnableBrightnessControl: 0
PanelPWMFrequency: 1018
PanelBrightnessLimits: 65280
RMEdgeIntrCheck: 1
UsePageAttributeTable: 4294967295
MapRegistersEarly: 0

gene@runabout:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.09 Mon Oct 27 14:23:30 PST 2008
GCC version: gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11)

[Dave Jones (dgjones)]

@Gene

I found that all the commands you suggested worked

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status

#Status: Enabled
Driver: AGPGART
AGP Rate: 4x
Fast Writes: Disabled
SBA: Disabled

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/registry

VideoMemoryTypeOverride: 1
EnableVia4x: 0
EnableALiAGP: 0
NvAGP: 3
ReqAGPRate: 15
EnableAGPSBA: 0
EnableAGPFW: 0
SoftEDIDs: 1
Mobile: [phone]
ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
FlatPanelMode: 0
DevicesConnected: 0
RmLogonRC: 1
VbiosFromROM: 0
ModifyDeviceFiles: 1
DeviceFileUID: 0
DeviceFileGID: 0
DeviceFileMode: 438
RemapLimit: 0
UpdateMemoryTypes: 4294967295
DetectPrimaryVga: 1
EnableBrightnessControl: 0
PanelPWMFrequency: 1018
PanelBrightnessLimits: 65280
RMEdgeIntrCheck: 1
UsePageAttributeTable: 4294967295
MapRegistersEarly: 0

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card

Fast Writes: Not Supported
SBA: Not Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000007:0x1f000104

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge

Host Bridge: PCI device 8086:1130
Fast Writes: Not Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000104

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.09 Mon Oct 27 14:23:30 PST 2008
GCC version: gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11)

Can;t understand the slow frame rates, my machine is a 1.2Ghz with the same graphics card.

[Giorgio Catanzaro (catanzag)]

For my GeForce 4 420 Go 32MB I installed 96.43.09 from source following the tips in this bug report and they're working fine for me with GL and compiz (apart the well known rendering bug for KDE3 apps). Not yet tested on KDE4.
Alberto, thank you for your prompt effort!!

[s.O.f.o.s (sogomaru)]

i found from another forum these setting for the xorg.conf file, i used them and now everything works fine :)
just curiosity but was i supposed to download
nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-96-modaliases_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
through the update manager, because when i run the manager i couldnt find none of these, and i downloaded them from the links in a post here.

[quote]# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon Apr 16 20:37:13 PDT 2007

# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"

# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
    Identifier "Default Layout"
    Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us,gr,ru"
    Option "XkbVariant" "intl,extended"
    Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Configured Mouse"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "CorePointer"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "stylus"
    Driver "wacom"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
    Option "Type" "stylus"
    Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "eraser"
    Driver "wacom"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
    Option "Type" "eraser"
    Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "cursor"
    Driver "wacom"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
    Option "Type" "cursor"
    Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Generic Screen"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 65.0
    VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nVidia Corpora...

[s.O.f.o.s (sogomaru)]

i am new here, so either there is no edit button or i cant find it.
the quotes dont work so dont forget to remove them.
the above xorg.conf is for gforce4 ti 4200

[Alex Ruddick (alexrudd0)]

Updating nvidia-glx-96 worked for me on my Geforce4 MX card. (Previously, I had to use nv)

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

Hi !

I tried 96 and 71 on my TNT2 card. After reboot xserver won't start.

In the Xorg.0.log.old I could see :

(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Well... I have a screen... :-;

The message appear for the both 96 and 71.

Thank you.
Xavier.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Xavier: can you attach the log which says "No devices detected"?

[Julian (julian-moulinier)]

It's my first time here. Hello all.

For me it's OK with a Ti 4200 64Mo (Moherboard Asus A7N8X...)

Thanx Alberto.

[Peter Remmers (peterr-web)]

Hi, this is my first time too. Driver works good (96).

I repaired the corrupted wine-fonts by following this advice:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-dec980f6deabdb11b789c981bf49e10e70929eaf

It's just about editing the wine registry; this completely worked out for my wine installation, but I don't use KDE so there may still be an issue there.

Thank you all and especially Alberto!

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

Alberto,

Here is the log.
This one is with 96 drivers. But with 71, there is the same message.
Xavier.

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

Alberto,

And there is the 'Xorg.conf' installed by envyng (?)
thanks for your help.
Xavier.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Xavier: here's the problem:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in
(WW) NVIDIA(0): this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy
(WW) NVIDIA(0): drivers. Please visit
(WW) NVIDIA(0): http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
(WW) NVIDIA(0): information. The 96.43.09 NVIDIA driver will ignore this
(WW) NVIDIA(0): GPU. Continuing probe...

In other words your card is supported only by driver 71.xx.xx, however this driver doesn't work with Ubuntu Intrepid's X.org (yet). When NVIDIA releases a new 71.xx.xx which is compatible with Intrepid, I'll make it available in Ubuntu as I did with 96.43.09.

[Afzal (afzalive)]

thanks you sO SO much!!!! :D
just installed everything from synaptic, edited the xorg.conf and works like a charm :)

[Xavier (xavier-monset)]

Alberto,

Thanks for your help.
I'm waiting that Nvidia makes this new driver.

Xavier.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

-96 intrepid-proposed copied to jaunty, since it is confirmed to work.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

-96 copied to intrepid-updates. It's not 7 days yet, but it can't get any worse than intrepid final.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I removed -71 from intrepid-proposed, since it still does not work.

[J.M. Hardin (jmhardin)]

Thanks, Peter. That FAQ entry did the job. I can't believe I didn't see that sooner when I was doing all my searching.

[racitup (racitup)]

Once the mirrors had been updated my install of nvidia-glx-96 and configuration was relatively painless.
The configuration had changed a lot since I last had to do an xorg.conf configuration (fc4!) especially with xinerama enabled this time, but a bit of trial and error with the nvidia-settings gui and a quick read of the nvidia README.txt sorted that out. I now have a CRT monitor and composite TV as one large desktop with mythbuntu installed and running!
My card: GF4 Ti4200 [NV25] now works fine! Thanks Alberto!

[TitoN (titon2k)]

I'm having problems with the driver 96.43.09. They load and i get compiz running but it renders very slow. I have the same problem as others stated that there is no text in the menus. Like for example in opera i dont see any text in the menu, only when i move over them with the mouse then i see them for a split second. But the text is rendered in nautilus so its only certain applications. Openoffice i got text in by changing the font suitable for lcd but it didnt fix the other applications. And new text beeing sent through for example xchat is laggy. I tried adding different options to my xorg.conf as stated below.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder57) Mon Oct 27 14:37:20 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Layout0"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "Unknown"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "UseCompositeWrapper"
    Option "NoLogo" "True"
    Option "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1600x1200" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[Dave Jones (dgjones)]

@TitoN

Re the problem with OpenOffice menu's, I had that problem with the 96 series driver, I solved/cured the problem by turning of desktop effects via System->Appearance->Visual Effects and changing the setting to "None".

After that amendment the menus in OpenOffice were fine. I'd thought it was because I'd upgraded to V3.0, but removing and reinstalling V2.4 had the same problem, by trial and error, turning off the desktop effects was the only thing that solved it.

Hope that helps

[Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)]

Has anyone successfully hibernated and resumed the machine while using the new -96 driver?
I'm seeing a blank screen when resuming, and I think it's related to the driver. (I have a Geforce 3 Ti 200)

[carrerasg (carrerag)]

@dgjones and others with missing menu text:

I thought I might take a look and see if I also experienced the OpenOffice menu problem and, sadly, I did. However, I googled around a bit and found this thread:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486810#34

Which described adding a option to xorg.conf which completely fixed the problem for me. You might try it and see if it also fixes the problem for you without having to disable the visual effects.
Basically, I added this:

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enabled"
EndSection

[O. Emmerson (oemmerson)]

It doesn't work for me. I get the following:

11:50:23-ode@ubuntu:~$ agi nvidia-glx-96
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dkms{a} linux-headers-2.6.25-2-386{a} linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-2{a}
  nvidia-96-kernel-source{a} nvidia-glx-96
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.2MB of archives. After unpacking 90.3MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-2.
(Reading database ... 179744 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-2 (from .../linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-2_2.6.25-2.3_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.25-2-386.
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.25-2-386 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.25-2-386_2.6.25-2.3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package dkms.
Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.0.20.4-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-96-kernel-source.
Unpacking nvidia-96-kernel-source (from .../nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx-96.
Unpacking nvidia-glx-96 (from .../nvidia-glx-96_96.43.09-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-2 (2.6.25-2.3) ...
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.25-2-386 (2.6.25-2.3) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.

Setting up dkms (2.0.20.4-0ubuntu2) ...
 * Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic [ OK ]

Setting up nvidia-96-kernel-source (96.43.09-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Adding Module to DKMS build system
driver version= 96.43.09
Doing initial module build

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/build or /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/source.
Installing initial module

Error! Could not locate nvidia.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (i686) first.
Done.

Setting up nvidia-glx-96 (96.43.09-0ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

$uname -a gives the following:
Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Matt D (yomattus)]

I have a Toshiba 5105-S501 (SATELLITE 5105 (version PS511U-02TJCX) with an Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go. When I installed and rebooted the driver worked but the right side of my screen was cutoff. The display was all there but there was a small gap on the right side of the screen. I tried all that I know to get rid of it but it never changed. The gap was always there no matter what resolution I selected. It also locked up when the power saver turned off the monitor and I had to cold boot it to get any display back. I uninstalled for now.

[John (john-m-lang)]

Proposed 96 driver and jockey update worked great for me. Thanks!

[bricedebrignaisplage (brice-brice)]

Proposed 96 driver and jockey update worked great for me. Thanks!
KUbuntu 8.10
nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP8x] (rev a2)

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

ode: why are you using kernel 2.6.25-2? (we use 2.6.27 in Ubuntu)

type:
sudo apt-get install linux-generic linux-headers-generic

and try again

[O. Emmerson (oemmerson)]

Hi Alberto,

I did mention I was using 2.6.27 at the bottom of my post.
I didn't have 2.6.25 installed.

I installed the packages you stated above and it build the module for the correct kernel this time.

I looked in jockey and it still said there were no proprietary drivers. I used Ctrl-Alt-F1 and ran nvidia-xconfig from there and restarted X manually and now the drivers work.

I rebooted and Jockey still says no proprietary drivers are in use though.

I also got the corrupted wine fonts problem already mentioned. I used the fix mentioned above by Peter Remmers and it worked for me (on Gnome.)

Thanks

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

ode: you will have to install jockey from intrepid-proposed and the "nvidia-common" package.

[frank x barlowe (tjdewey)]

Proposed 96 driver is not working for me.

1. Enabled Intrepid-Proposed
2. Installed nvidia-96-kernel-source & nvidia-glx-96 through Synaptic
3. Ran nvidia-xconfig
4. Restarted
5. Failed. From the Xorg.0.log:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:1:0:0.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please see the COMMON PROBLEMS section in the README for
(EE) NVIDIA(0): additional information.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "xaa"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Log attached.

Notes: Same results when I manually edited xorg.conf as recommended in several comments, and/or used EnvyNG to install driver.

I can get 3D Acceleration with nvidia-173, but my system eventually crashes--accompanied by a scrambled screen--after an indeterminate period ranging b/w a few minutes and several hours. Reboots to a blank screen after crash. Could this be an different problem altogether?

Help me, Alberto Milone. You're my only hope.

[TitoN (titon2k)]

I tried with the Composite enabled but still the menus are not rendered in openoffice, opera, amsn. And the text in general is rendered slow like in programs like xchat. If i turn of compiz then it works just fine so the question is why doesnt it work with compiz? I realy want compiz to work since i'm so used to it to work with.
I have a geforce4 440 go 64 mb and use the 96.43.09 drivers my xorg.conf is stated further up.

I didnt have these problems on 8.04 with 96.43.05 drivers
hopefully someone can help me with this

[Marius Bock (marius)]

I have a similar issue that TitoN.

Added
Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enabled"
EndSection
as suggested above but it did not solve my problem.

Graphic Card info:
Graphics Processor: GeForce2 MX/MX 400
VBIOS Version: 03.11.01.43.00
Memory: 64 MB

As far as I can see this is the only issue I have with the 96 drivers

Thanks

[Marius Bock (marius)]

Ok .. managed to solve the Menu/Font issue in OO 2.4.1 by switching off Screen font antialiasing.

[TitoN (titon2k)]

How did you swith it off?

[Marius Bock (marius)]

In any OO app goto -- you might to do this not having menus

Tools (The sixth menu item from the left)
Options (The bottom one in the list)
View under OpenOffice.org in the dialog that opens (4th item)
Untick the second from top tickbox - Screen font antialiasing.

Hope you come right.

[janusz (sunmake)]

problem with any nvidia drivers starting from 'displayconfig-gtk' package,which is not included in 8.10 distribution!/was in 8.04/.What I've done: in time upgrading from 8.04,after completing instalation,instaler ask if you what to keep some no more need packages.I've foud 'displayconfig-gtk' and check for keep it.After reboot I run: programs-other-screens&graphics find my monitor and set correct resolution,on graphic card I've already got my card and nv driver/only available at this moment/.Then I've pick up awailable updates.Now run drivers applet-I've see two awailable for my card drivers/one 'recommended'/,choise install 'recommended'-reboot system.Now I've got NVIDIA X Server settings fully working!/at programs-other-screens&graphics new nvidia driver appear/
my card Nvidia FX5700VE,driver nvidia-glx-173
Driver installation without keeppinng 'displayconfig-gtk' - I've got NVIDIA X Server settings intalled,but max resolution WAS 640x320!!
This way I've check on two different computers ant cards/second one TNT2 with 32MB memory/
If you not have 'displayconfig-gtk' than mayby that is any way to install it from deb repozytorys,but I'm not try this way.Exclusion 'displayconfig-gtk' from 8.10 doing that in Live session no possibility to change screen resolution suitable for monitor and friendle work.

[TitoN (titon2k)]

I tried to swith off the font settings but nothing fixed the problem with rendering the text in opera, amsn and the lagg in xchat for some examples, only in open office. The cube effect etc works smooth its just the text rendering.

[Jackdaw28 (simoncsoka)]

I'm having the same problem as TitoN, the Wine problem resolved with the suggested fixes above.

Ori Avtalion: I can hibernate and resume and suspend and resume with this driver.
I don't want to teach you how to suck eggs but have you added Option "NvAGP" "1" to devices:
i.e.:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option "NvAGP" "1"
EndSection

See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaLaptopBinaryDriverSuspend

[dsk (calvo2)]

Updated Jockey and 96 package. Worked great on my hp pavilion zv5000. With the Geforce 4mx Go 64mb. Using full effects.

Thanks for your great work!

[toneman77 (toni-eleftheriadis)]

96 worked for worked for me although i had the same problem as ode (aptitude pulled 2.6.25 headers and installation failed.)
After getting the correct ones, the driver installed correctly

[daveh (david-huckfield)]

I have a clean 8.10 install with nvidia Proprietary drivers version 96 installed using System>Admin>HardwareDrivers. My card is an nvidia GeForce4 MX440.

I have the same problem as TitoN and others in Opera 9.27 (added by Synaptic.) Specifically, it won't draw text for the menus of the Title Bar ( ie the panel with File, Edit, View, Bookmark etc) unless I select "none" in System>Preferences>Appearance>VisualEffects.

I have done some of the suggestions above ie

I enabled sub-pixel smoothing in Fonts.

I added

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enabled"
EndSection

to my xorg.conf file.

But no luck.

I did note that the driver installation has modified my original xorg.conf file to add

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

to the "Screen" section and not to the "Device" section as many above have done.

Is this significant?

Any help really appreciated.
Thanks

[Jackdaw28 (simoncsoka)]

I've just installed Google Earth from the medibuntu repo and it has exactly the same problems as Opera - no text in the menus on the title bar.

[Anshuman Aggarwal (anshuman-aggarwal)]

Hi all,
 I've tried everything tried here and looked around on launchpad and google as well. Here is the setup:

- AMD Duron 700 MHz machine, GeForce2 MX400 card, worked fine with Compiz, nvidia binary driver in Hardy.
- Upgraded to Intrepid from Hardy...all went fine (besides the warning about the degradation of driver)...nv driver worked fine.

Now, after reading this thread, I've enabled the proposed repository per comment 51 and installed the nvidia 96 package (96.43.09) ...confirmed the version in synaptics.

The error in the Xorg.0.log:

(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"

------------------------
apt/term.log:

Setting up nvidia-96-kernel-source (96.43.09-0ubuntu1) ...
Cleaning up the DKMS tree
Done.
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Adding Module to DKMS build system
driver version= 96.43.09
Doing initial module build

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.27-7-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.09/build/ for more information.^MInstalling initial module^M^MError! Could not locate nvidia.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree.^MYou must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (i686) first.
Done.
---------------------
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.09/build# cat make.log
DKMS make.log for nvidia-96.43.09 for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (i686)
Tue Nov 11 01:15:26 IST 2008

The C compiler 'cc' does not appear to be able to
create executables. Please make sure you have
your Linux distribution's gcc and libc development
packages installed.

*** Failed CC sanity check. Bailing out! ***

make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1

------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've tried building dkms build manually but I keep getting the same error and google isn't of much help.

Kernel: 2.6.27-7
Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 (Upgraded from Hardy 8.04)
(Envy-ng was installed earlier but has been removed)

Thanks a lot in advance,
Anshuman

[ggriseri (ggriseri)]

I've the same problem described by TitoN, menu text and button text are not rendered in OpenOffice3, knetworkmanager, k3b, etc.
If I disable "Visual effects" in Desktop configuration menu and button text are displayed.

Card info:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 19
        Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at d8080000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidiafb, rivafb, nvidia

[migsvill (migs-villafranca)]

Hi all,

I don't know if this the right place to post this but I really need your help.

I'm quite new to the world of Linux and so far I'm happy with what this os has to offer. I'm experiencing the same problem as you guys. I have a Geforce2 MX 400 64 Mb, I was able to install the 96 driver and play DOTA with a little bit of lag through wine. However, I'm encountering problems with compiz, whenever I set the visual effects to extra, the title bar, bottom panel, and control buttons disappear. Can anyone direct me to a "proper" step-by-step process of installing the 96 and compiz?

Thanks in advance!

[garnettxd (garnettxd)]

Did you enable the Window Decoration in CompizConfig Settings Manager

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:04 AM, migsvill <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I don't know if this the right place to post this but I really need your
> help.
>
> I'm quite new to the world of Linux and so far I'm happy with what this
> os has to offer. I'm experiencing the same problem as you guys. I have a
> Geforce2 MX 400 64 Mb, I was able to install the 96 driver and play DOTA
> with a little bit of lag through wine. However, I'm encountering
> problems with compiz, whenever I set the visual effects to extra, the
> title bar, bottom panel, and control buttons disappear. Can anyone
> direct me to a "proper" step-by-step process of installing the 96 and
> compiz?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> [Intrepid] nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251107
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
> Status in "nvidia-graphics-drivers-71" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in "nvidia-graphics-drivers-96" source package in Ubuntu: Fix
> Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 in Ubuntu Intrepid: Confirmed
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 in Ubuntu Jaunty: Confirmed
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nvidia-glx-96
>
> Hi all,
> just upgraded to Intrepid. Installed the proprietary driver for my old
> nvidia card (NV17GL [Quadro NVS] [10DE:17A]).
> Restarted X, but got the failsafe window instead of GDM. Looking at th Xorg
> logs I noted this error:
>
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
> dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol:
> Allo cateScreenPrivateIndex
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
>
> Attached the complete log file.
>

[daveh (david-huckfield)]

Windows Decorarion was already enabled on install but I have disabled it to ses if it was the cause, but it made no difference.

[daveh (david-huckfield)]

Windows Decorarion was already enabled on install but I have disabled it to see if it was the cause, but it made no difference.

[Dr. Asfak Motiwala (ghpibm)]

Hi, though nothing works for me at present, i have another problem with Nvidia. (I promise i will never ever buy nvidia card).

I have Asus A7N266-VM motherboard with Geforce2 Integrated GPU. During old time, mandrake, ubuntu 6.10 etc worked with charm until 8776 nvidia driver. Later on with division od nvidia driver into 3, 1XX, 9xx, and 71xx driver, Nvidia support page directs me to 9xxx driver but in fact this driver never worked for me or any other using the same chipset. All linux forum suggested to use 71xx only. Only 71xx worked with no problem.
check this....
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100920

But Ubuntu had Restricted Driver (and now Jockey) to install Nvidia driver, which obviously suggested me to install 9xxx version which never ever worked. I forcedly used 71xx driver. I could do everything with that but at many instance restricted driver manager overwrite 71xx. The situation does not seem to have changed in Intrepid. I think this is not Ubuntu's fault as Nvidia Driver support wrongly directs us to 96xxx driver or there is a bug in that driver. BTw 71xx at present is best driver for this chipset and jockey must suggest this driver only for this chipset.

Now for Intrepid, I tried 96.43.09 driver from Nvidia site and tried again from intrepid proposed. The result was same as all earlier version of Ubuntu from 7.10, 8.04. Later i tried 71xx from Nvidia site and from intrepid-proposed. Again the result were same. Xorg did not start with just blank screen. I am back with NV now.

[Rizwan Roker (rizwanroker-gmail)]

Dr. Asfak: The latest 71.86.07 drivers aren't compatible with xorg that comes with intrepid, so we'll just have to wait for nvidia to release new 71 drivers that work with the new xorg. You'll have to hang on to NV for now.

Check this out:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1833180

[Anshuman Aggarwal (anshuman-aggarwal)]

SOLUTION: Please note my problem above. I have found a solution and want to contribute back the solution to the community.

the CC compiler error with nvidia was fixed by using:

export CC=/usr/bin/gcc so that it uses the current gcc and the compile went fine.

I am not sure if this is the right fix (maybe the problem is caused by the upgrade to Intrepid from Hardy)...anyways this fixes it.
Hope this helps someone.

[Peter De Maeyer (peter-de-maeyer)]

I just pulled in the Intrepid proposed updates and installed the recommended proprietary nvidia driver.

The NVIDIA Driver Version 96.43.09 works like a charm for my Quadro4 900 XGL (rev a3).

Peter

[daveh (david-huckfield)]

Hello Peter,
Apparently nvidia say there is a bug in this beta driver for text rendering so are you absolutely sure it's working "like a charm".
It renedees most of my test but with Opera and K3B there are problems.
Do you have Opera and K3B installed and fully rendered eg the text in the boxes in the lower half of the screen in K3B?
If you could check it would be very helpful.

Thanks
Dave

[J.M. Hardin (jmhardin)]

I meant to post this yesterday, but running Ubuntu 8.10 (GNOME) with the 96 drivers I found that I had to disable Compiz to run Scribus 1.3.3.12.dfsg-1ubuntu2, otherwise I couldn't see any text in documents or menus. This (and the known WINE issue) is the only issue I've seen yet in the current beta 96 drivers.

[Gianluca Zanferrari (zanferrari)]

I installed 96 drivers on geforce mx 400 64Mb. Everything is ok now except Fireworks in Wine. Dreamveaver, sqlYog looks good but Fireworks doesn't shows the icons in the toolbar (left). I uploaded a screenshot; maybe someone has advice.

Bye

[Jakson Alves de Aquino (jaksonaquino)]

This workaround for fixing fonts in wine worked for my system (Intrepid amd64):
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122695

[dancer58 (dancer581)]

I am on the Intrepid list and I would like to stop
I have tried to stop but don't know what list to stop. (all I have tried
didn't work)

Is there a way to find out what lists I am on and stop them ?
thanks
Harold

[NoOp (glgxg)]

On 11/12/2008 09:12 AM, dancer58 wrote:
> I am on the Intrepid list and I would like to stop
> I have tried to stop but don't know what list to stop. (all I have tried
> didn't work)
>
> Is there a way to find out what lists I am on and stop them ?
> thanks
> Harold
>

Right side of the page: click 'Unsubscribe' & follow the directions.

To find out which bugs you are associated with: click your username next
to the login box, then click on 'Bugs'.

[daveh (david-huckfield)]

To those of you who, like me, have had text rendering problems with 96.43.09 drivers I have some good news.
The good people at Compiz-Fusion have just advised me that adding:

Option "RenderAccel" "0" to the Device section of xorg.conf will solve this problem.

For me it has at last resolved all issues.

I believe nvidia see this as a workaround that may slow 2D drawing so they have suggested the alternative of reverting instead to version 96.43.07.

But this simple mod to xorg has been the solution for me.

If it works for you it will help all if you let us know here.

Good luck.

[dancer58 (dancer581)]

The Intrepid mailing list
It has too high a volume

Thanks for the replies

NoOp wrote:
> On 11/12/2008 09:12 AM, dancer58 wrote:
>
>> I am on the Intrepid list and I would like to stop
>> I have tried to stop but don't know what list to stop. (all I have tried
>> didn't work)
>>
>> Is there a way to find out what lists I am on and stop them ?
>> thanks
>> Harold
>>
>>
>
> Right side of the page: click 'Unsubscribe' & follow the directions.
>
> To find out which bugs you are associated with: click your username next
> to the login box, then click on 'Bugs'.
>
>

[GourdCaptain (saunders-52)]

Jakson Alves de Aquino wrote:
> This workaround for fixing fonts in wine worked for my system (Intrepid amd64):
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122695
>
>
I can confirm this workaround for Wine worked with my Geforce 4 MX and
the beta drivers.

[Jackdaw28 (simoncsoka)]

Using Option "RenderAccel" "0" has fixed the font problem in Opera and Google Earth for me with Geforce Go MX 440 64MB.

[s.O.f.o.s (sogomaru)]

the "RenderAccel" "0" worked for me too, geforce4 ti 4200.

[Laurent (lduplantie)]

96.43.09 works with my Quadro2 (32MB) although the autodetection for my monitor failed. I am stuck in low res. I am trying to find out how to manually set the monitor and resolution. I have edited xorg.conf with no success.

Laurent

[GourdCaptain (saunders-52)]

Laurent wrote:
> 96.43.09 works with my Quadro2 (32MB) although the autodetection for my
> monitor failed. I am stuck in low res. I am trying to find out how to
> manually set the monitor and resolution. I have edited xorg.conf with no
> success.
>
> Laurent
>
>
The nvidia-settings package gives a GUI for editing xorg.conf if you're
using the Nvidia drivers. It's worth checking out. (I used it to fix the
resolution when mine was misidentified, too.)

[jackie999 (micjacmartin)]

I'm just new so will try to provide useful info.
Running 8.10 with nvidia GeForce FX 5500. The 173.14.12.1 doesn't seem to work, it will not allow me to enable desktop effects.
I was able to install the 96.43.09 and am able to enable effects. But I find when running Konversation all the text will blank out on screen refreshes. The same thing is happening with Open Office applications - anywhere you'd normally see text is blank.

[Marius Bock (marius)]

jackie999

see the comment above from daveh which I copy here:

To those of you who, like me, have had text rendering problems with 96.43.09 drivers I have some good news.
The good people at Compiz-Fusion have just advised me that adding:

Option "RenderAccel" "0" to the Device section of xorg.conf will solve this problem.

For me it has at last resolved all issues.

I believe nvidia see this as a workaround that may slow 2D drawing so they have suggested the alternative of reverting instead to version 96.43.07.

But this simple mod to xorg has been the solution for me.

If it works for you it will help all if you let us know here.

Good luck.

See if this solves your problem. I had the same issue and it solved mine.

[jackie999 (micjacmartin)]

Marius, that xorg.conf change did the trick, thanks very much for passing that along.

[TitoN (titon2k)]

I just want to confirm that Marius tip about adding
Option "RenderAccel" "0"
To the Device part in xorg.conf fixed the problem with the font rendering problem.
Thank you very much.

[macro182 (macro182-gmail)]

I had a nVidia 8500 GT that works 'out of the box' in a native installation of intrepid.
But I had to upgrade from Hardy and now I only managed to log in whit Vesa driver (wrong resolution).

What can I do?

Thank you for helping me

[Jackdaw28 (simoncsoka)]

Re: macro182: I had the same problem on another system with a Geforce 7300GT. No nvidia driver would install properly after an upgrade from Hardy. I tried everything to no avail. On a clean install of Intrepid the 177 driver worked fine and was installed through Hardware Drivers (jockey.) I think that there is a separate bug in the upgrade process.

[Hein van Rensburg (hvralpha)]

Jackie,
The problem with open office is not the same driver problem reported here. OOO2.4 and OOO3.0 call a specific font which is sometimes missing in the system. I fixed the problem in Ubuntu by going to the system-preferences-appearance-fonts and changing the fonts there. It worked after restarting OOO.

[jackie999 (micjacmartin)]

Thank you Hein. My problem wasn't just the open office fonts, it was also "Konversation" fonts, but the main problem was I was unable to enable desktop effects and the fix Marius posted above fixed everything.

[Timothy Burk (b-tburk)]

Just wanted to confirm the 96 beta driver worked for me. GeForce4 Ti 4200. I can also confirm the workaround for WINE.

[oren (orengolan)]

I am not sure if I am in the right place.
my problem is I can't play games anymore since everything is very slow.
I have GeForce4 MX 440
running this: glxgears -info
shows the following info:
GL_RENDERER = Software Rasterizer
and also:
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 790 requests (352 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

I tried following this thread and tried this line:
sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-96
but it didn't help.

Please provide me a simple step by step for solving it.
Thank you very much!

[alienexplorers (dfsjr47)]

96.43.09 works great as long as renderaccel is turned off.

[Ravindran K (ravindran-k)]

I see a new version on NVIDIA site
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/71.86.08/

trying it now.

[Ravindran K (ravindran-k)]

No luck.. same error undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex

[RainS (slnice)]

My card is TNT2 M64.
After update to 71.86.08, the error is the same: undefined symbol:AllocateScreenPrivateIndex.
System is Ubuntu 8.10. Why? Does the 71.86.08 still have this bug?

[mclaudt (mclaudt)]

My card TNT2 ULTRA.

71.86.06 and 71.86.08 give

undefined symbol:AllocateScreenPrivateIndex.

OpenSUSE 11.1

[jtholmes (jtholmes)]

I can certainly confirm the undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex

in the 71.86.09 version from nvidia's site.

I don't expect instant service (i can go back to 8.04) but I am wondering
why the bug is 'undecided' for the 71.86.04 and want to know if it shouldnt be medium.

I will be glad to do what ever testing albert etc. wants to help fix the problem.
thanks
jt

[ranman (eatdespain)]

Him

tested as well the latest 71 release from nvidia (09) , the same error, my X are broken

Ran,

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Unfortunately driver 71.xx won't be updated to work with the new xserver and there is nothing we can do about it. Should things change in the future, feel free to reopen this bug report.

[dyl_yati (dnb.yati)]

Did the exact same thing with my parents Xubuntu, which has the old nvidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (which also uses the same nvidia 71 driver thingy).
installed, rebooted and so started X...
only to get failsafe window
I too got this message at the end of the xorg log
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

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you will get many benefits.
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[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

someone please remove this jerks account so that he cannot spam again !!! what an ass !

[Jacob Godserv (fun2program8)]

Gene, please report spam to the proper forums. (And, passing judgment without all the facts and without the authority is a dangerous thing to do, and doing it in public makes the community look bad.)

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

@Jacob
you have a lot of gall telling me that I am not the only decision maker about who sends me email to my private email account. I did not sign up to report bugs here only to get harassed and SPAMED by members - this forum is about posting bug reports, not about giving personal opinions about webs site from someone who I don't know or want an option from.

you got side tracked, if YOU know the proper place to report improper posts to this forum, then you can report it ( because I have no clue or time to search where I would report it). I have no clue where the proper place is to report it, however there are moderators in all forums who can take the action needed, and I do not see a mod doing anything about this and was hoping that my post would get a mod to remove the OFFENDERS account. In what world is it ok to spam people with UNWANTED opinions and not even try to take action against the offenders posted spam ?

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

I would also note that by leaving the SPAM in place and not trying to get it removed is what makes the community look bad, not to mention saying nothing about the spammer.

[Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)]

Gene, Jacob, and everyone else,

I have talked with Andrea Cimitan, whose email account was hacked and was used to send spam.
Andrea wants this spam removed as much as you do.

Please do not start an off-topic discussion about spam in an already crowded bug report.

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

That I can accept and live with but should have been posted for the benefit for offended receivers of the SPAM. T/Y for the info Ori.

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

Today I've tried the driver on my old machine with a TNT 2 Model 64 video-card. It is still not working... is this issue going to be resolved by nVIDIA in the near future?

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

I use Ubuntu Jaunty on my old computer (X Server 1.6).

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

And is there any sense in trying Ubuntu 8.10?

[papukaija (papukaija)]

@Miro: Intrepid isn't any more supported. Anyway, this bug is fixed for the nvidia 96 series. The Tnt2 is part of the older 71 driver which does not support the new xservers (Jaunty and higher) but this bug report isn't about xserver support (and don't open a bug about xserver's compatibility, only nvidia can provide a fix). Nvidia isn't probably going to release a fix for it in the near future. However, starting with Lucid (10.04 LTS), Ubuntu uses by default the free (gpl) nouveau driver which is better and faster than the nv driver but it doesn't yet provide 3d support.

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

I know about the Nouvoeau driver in Lucid but after Jaunty, the newer Ubuntu version use at least 100-150 mb more RAM than Jaunty, Intrepid, Hardy and so on. And this computer is really old after all.

Thanks for informing me, papukaija!