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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 ...
  1. 02-26-2006 #1
    Ben Stamper
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    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.
  2. 02-26-2006 #2
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    take a look at
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    /var/log/Xorg.0.log
    and see if it is giving you any information about why x is failing
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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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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    Here is the how-to install from the ubuntuguide..

    http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#installnvidiadriver
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