GeForce 8600 GT won't work

[falcon240sx]

I have a Geforce 8600 GT on the PCI express slot. when i installed Fiesty everything was fine until i rebooted a couple of days later. When Kubuntu came back up it wouldn't load the gui. i went to the command console and tried startx. it came back with errors saying the NVIDIA device could not be intialized. I tried reinstalling the nvidia-glx driver and then reconfiguring xserver to no avail. tried installing the glx-new drivers and it says

(EE)Failed to load module "wfb" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE)Nvidia (GPU-0) Failed to intialize dac HAL
(EE)Screen(s) found , but none have usable configuration

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.



I tried going back to the older drivers but then it says the modules are different versions
How do i get my system back?

[SheeEttin]

Re: GeForce 8600 GT won't work

Envy?

[dibl]

Re: GeForce 8600 GT won't work

Envy?

I think that will be a "YES".

The new 8600 and 8800 Nvidia cards require the very latest proprietary driver, which Envy now installs. Read the instructions, download the "envy_0.9.5-0ubuntu5_all.deb" file from this site

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

and install it on your system. Run it in GUI mode if it appears in your "Kmenu>System" menu, otherwise open a konsole window and type

sudo envy -t

and it will run in text mode.

[falcon240sx]

Re: GeForce 8600 GT won't work

since i only had the ALT-F2 console i had to run it there, but still didn't work. it says my drivers are still mismatched


Edit
I reconfigured and changed my driver to vesa. that got me back into the gui
after that envy worked.

thank you very much

[heinkel_111]

Re: GeForce 8600 GT won't work

is there now native support for 8600 in feisty? what about gutsy?

I am asking in this thread because I am troubled with this right now and I know this forum has a search function

[heinkel_111]

Re: GeForce 8600 GT won't work

Reply to self because in the end I just had to try something on my own

Installed gutsy, using nvidia-glx-new, and that seems to work.