[SOLVED] problem with installing nvidia driver

[usamahashimi]

Hi
I am having a problem with nvidia driver. After installing lucid when I installed the nvidia driver and then restarted my system. After restarting my computer completely freezed during boot process and I have to unplug it and when I again turn it on the filesystem was corrupted and I had to reinstall ubuntu lucid. I used both the repository driver and the driver from nvidia's website but the same problem occurs. And now I have to use the default fbdev to be able to use my computer. The video card is Nvidia Geforce 7050/nforce 610i. Can anyone help me to solve this problem?
Thanks

[devils casper]

How did you install Repository driver? Did you Hardware drivers option in System - Administration menu?

Post the output of this

lspci | grep -i vga

[usamahashimi]

Thanks for taking interest in my problem
Yes, I used the nvidia driver from System|Administration|Hardware Drivers and I used the "Current (Reccomended) Version".
Here is lspci output:

user@system:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C73 [GeForce 7050 / nForce 610i] (rev a2)

[usamahashimi]

I noticed one more thing. As I told that I was using the default fbdev driver. But I was having a problem with that driver that my keyboard and mouse stop responding after few minutes, specially when I start copying anything or load 6-7 apps simultaneously. So I changed the driver from fbdev to vesa by giving "vesa" option to grub. Now my keyboard and mouse are not freezing.

[devils casper]

Is xorg.conf file configured correctly? Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file here.

[hatebreed]

load the nvidia driver and go to a shell as root and try nvidia-xconfig -mode "800x600" "1024x768" and what ever other resolutions you want. I had something like that happen to me and after i did that all was well again. Not promising though.

[usamahashimi]

Here is my xorg.conf

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"fbdev"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

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

You can see the here fbdev is used as driver but I have an option of "vesa" to kernel in grub because as I told that my keyboard and mouse were freezing without giving "vesa" option.

[devils casper]

First of all, try hatebreed's suggestion, post #6. In case it doesn't work, use this xorg.conf file :

Section "Device"
       Identifier "Configured Video Device"
       Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier "Configured Monitor"
         HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0
         VertRefresh 40-90
         Option "UseEdidFreqs" "1"
         Option "ReducedBlanking"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Monitor "Configured Monitor"
        Device "Configured Video Device"
        DefaultDepth 24
        Subsection "Display"
             Depth 24
             Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubsection
EndSection

[usamahashimi]

devils casper! thanks a lot, your solution worked

[devils casper]

Glad to help you !