Installed Nvidia drivers - now X won't start

[type3]

Hi all, relatively new to Kubuntu, built a new SLI machine and have been using the NV drivers for a while. I now tried installing the full Nvidia drivers from here by following the instructions:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-8174.html

After running 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8174-pkg1.run' it barfed on a few things, so now I've got gcc installed, linux kernel source and headers.

After that and re-running the setup utility, I rebooted and now it stalls at the Kubuntu screen with starting X. If I run 'startx' from the command line (both kernels as I seem to have two now) it gives the following errors:

Failed to load module GLX
Failed to load module Nvidia

..think it's because they're not installed, but can't install because no desktop, so no wifi connection...

Help!


thanks,
type3

[Fenyx]

Re: Installed Nvidia drivers - now X won't start

You need to install a "linux-restricted-modules-xxxxxx". The version of linux-restricted-modules should match the version of linux-image-xxxxxx that you have.

This guide might be helpful: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper

[type3]

Re: Installed Nvidia drivers - now X won't start

Thanks Jucato, I'll give it a try.


cheers,
type3

[type3]

Re: Installed Nvidia drivers - now X won't start

Yay, got it running. Only one minor problem after rebooting, it hung at:

'starting hardware abstraction layer hald'

...but was okay on the second restart. I'll run it for a few days and see how it behaves.

Running:

'glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark'

...gave:

65312 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13061.792 FPS
48438 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9687.547 FPS
78940 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15787.687 FPS
78235 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15646.851 FPS
78965 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15792.972 FPS
79383 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15876.585 FPS
78838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15767.594 FPS
79307 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15861.330 FPS
76021 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15204.150 FPS

So far so good. Thanks again Jucato.


thanks,
type3