Nvidia Beta 260 driver breaks 330m cards

[theanswriz42]

Binary package hint: nvidia-current

I'm running a Sony Vaio F12 laptop with the Nvidia 330m chipset and the recent update of nvidia-current 260.19.06-0ubuntu1 breaks X. I'm currently at my office but I'll get better information when I get home tonight.

[Bernhard J. M. Grün (bernhard-gruen)]

Unfortunately, I have exactly the same problem and a similiar laptop (Sony F12Z1E).
The problem is that my laptop crashes at start therefore I can't get any logs. The only way to use my installation now is to use the non-nvidia driver.

[J! (joop-olb)]

I also suffer from this issue with maverick kernel and same hardware. Kernel log is reporting oops at startup.

[David Zanetti (dave2-wetstring)]

Also seems to affect 230M cards, in my Sony VPCCW16FG. Last logged message from Xorg.0.log:

[ 83.691] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
[ 83.691] (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.

Locks after that.

[Stefano Travelli (stefano-travelli)]

Vaio VPCF11C5E (GT 330M card) is also affected.

One viable solution is to remove nvidia-current and install 256.53 drivers from nvidia site, as suggested in http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/issues/detail?id=33

[Veysel Harun Sahin (harunsahin)]

Vaio VPCCW290X (GeForce 310M) is also affected.

[TheRawGod (therawgod)]

Ok,

I'm having Sony Vaio FPCF1190x with GT330M, Ubuntu 10.10 x64 installed (tried before upgrade on 10.04 x64 as well with the same results).
260.1912 drivers make Xorg crash, as soon as driver is tried to be loaded.
I'm reposting the stack trace of the crash from http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/issues/detail?id=34, please find it attached.

[Patryk Szulczyk (soulcheck)]

I'm also affected by this problem

[plitter (odnehel)]

I am also affected by this problem. My version of vaio is vpcf12s1e and have nvidia gt 330m card. Got the same same log as David Zanetti, but after trying to remove nvidia and reinstalling, I don't even have a log anymore...

[Yoshi Tamagoshi (yasharrassoulli)]

I have a new Dell L401X with GeForce GT 420M with the same issue.

[rmenendezm (rmenendezm)]

I have a new Dell L401X with GeForce GT 420M with the same issue.

After Installing the NVidia-propietary drivers using the nvidia-installer (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.21.run) the only way to having a nonblank screen is by using an external monitor through the HDMI port.
I have tried and wasted several days with this problem. It seems as if xorg.conf is never well configured by nvidia-xconfig, so whn trying to run nvidia-settings (as root) it never detects the two monitor, just the external.

[Stefano Travelli (stefano-travelli)]

Good news here.

The latest driver from 260 series, that is 260.19.29 published on Dec 13th 2010, works fine on my Sony VPCF11C5E (GT 330M) with Maverick.

If other could confirm, nvidia-current should upgrade to this version.