Issues with nVidia GeForce FX 5500 & nVidia Drivers

02-26-2006	#1 (permalink)
Ben Stamper Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3	Issues with nVidia GeForce FX 5500 & nVidia Drivers Whenever I tell X to use the nVidia drivers, X crashes. Can someone help me with this? It is an eVGA nVidia GeForce FX 5500 256 MB, and uses an AGP slot. The distro is Ubuntu.
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02-26-2006	#2 (permalink)
Vergil83 Linux Guru Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,408	take a look at Code: /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if it is giving you any information about why x is failing __________________ Brilliant Mediocrity - Making Failure Look Good

02-26-2006

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Ben Stamper

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Here's Xorg.0.log.old, which should show the problems that occured when the nvidia driver was running: (attached, it is about 30,000 characters)

If you need it, I'll post the results using the nv driver.

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Xorg.0.log.old.txt (28.6 KB, 5 views)

02-26-2006	#4 (permalink)
Zelmo Linux Engineer Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Riverton, UT, USA Posts: 1,001	Is that the whole file? It looks like the end of the output is missing. When X fails to initialize, there's normally an error at or near the end of the log file. __________________ Stand up and be counted as a Linux user!

02-27-2006	#5 (permalink)
Ben Stamper Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3	Yes, that's the whole output. Also, that time, it crashed while loading the ubuntu log-in screen, with a little bit at the bottom still white, but the mouse was moveable.

06-05-2006	#6 (permalink)
Rukai Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1	New to Linux I'm only now just starting to use Linux (Ubuntu) and I have the same problem, and it just boots to the prompt, not to the desktop. My bro had been using Linux on it, then I got it back from him, switched the video card, and it doesn't work, and I have no idea what to do.

06-05-2006	#7 (permalink)
craigevil Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Terra in the Milky Way Posts: 88	How did you install the drivers? I have pretty much the same card on my Debian/Kanotix system and it runs great. Host/Kernel/OS "KanotixBox" running Linux 2.6.16.16-kanotix-1 i686 CPU Info AMD Duron clocked at [ 1800.255 MHz ] Videocard nVidia NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] X.Org 7.0.0 [ 1024x768 @85hz ] GLX Renderer GeForce FX 5500/AGP/SSE/3DNOW! \| GLX Version 2.0.2 NVIDIA 87.62 My suggestion would be to search the Ubuntu wiki and "official" forums. There are a lot of dedicated people that know pretty much everything there is to know about Ubuntu. Here is a guide on installing Nvidia drivers for Dapper. "How to install Graphics Driver (NVIDIA)" http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu_da...r_.28NVIDIA.29

06-05-2006	#8 (permalink)
farslayer Linux User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 326	Here is the how-to install from the ubuntuguide.. http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#installnvidiadriver __________________ far...out

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