Ubuntu
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 package

nvidia legacy card

Bug #27907 reported by Rod
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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I followed the steps at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia but I
dont get the nvidia driver to work

lspci gives me among other tings:
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10 [GeForce 256
SDR] (rev 10)
This means I have a Geforce 1 card so instead of nvidia-glx i need to apt-get
nvidia-glx-legacy which I did.

The attempt to install seems to fail during nvidia-glx-config enable. I think it
first does modprobe nvidia and then edit nv to nvidia in xorg.conf. When I do
that and exit X, X wont start anymore. Modprobe nvidia (using sudo) gives me
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile/nvidia.ko):
No such device

find /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/ -name nvidia.ko gives me
/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile/nvidia.ko

I asked around in #ubuntu, #ubuntu-nl and #ubuntu-de using all sorts of commands
but they advised to post here. I hope you can help.

Revision history for this message
Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

You need to have linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-10-386-nvidia-legacy installed as well (which I suspect you do), and then, due to the fragility of how this all works in breezy, you'll need to reboot before you can actually use it.

Thankfully, this is all much more robust (no more extra package for the kernel module, and things Just Work) in dapper.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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