Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

[bturrie]

This should have been fairly easy, but wasn't. I installed the Nvidia-glx-new drivers, enabled them, powered down and put in the card. I powered back up, and ran

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

and changed the driver to nvidia. when I tried

startx

I got the error message:

Fatal IO error 104, Connection reset by peer after 0 tries.

I changed to the nv driver with the same result.

lspci -v

sees the 7300LE alright

my Kernel is 2.6.20-16-generic and my machine is a core2 duo

My system is up-to-date, and I'm out of ideas, any suggestions?

[Snowhog]

Re: Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

Check out dibl's HOWTO: Install and use the Envy script installer for video drivers

[bturrie]

Re: Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

Good suggestion and should have worked but it didn't. I tried it twice just in case i didn't have the old stuff fully removed the first time. Unfortunately, the result wasn't any different than before when I tried installing the drivers manually. Thanks for trying though.

[Snowhog]

Re: Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

Well.... :P

You were 'replacing' an existing video card?

[dibl]

Re: Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

should have worked but it didn't.

Can you expand on that a little, please? Did it appear that Envy was installed correctly? If so, open Envy and try un-installing the Nvidia driver. If that appears to proceed correctly (meaning you have no video driver at all), then you can enter, at the CLI

sudo envy -t

and perhaps the Nvidia driver will now be installed.

[bturrie]

Re: Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

I was putting it in to replace the intel 3100 video on my mobo. I did make sure the bios settings were correct though. It's set to use the onboard video unless theres a pcie card. Just to be sure, I ran

lspci -v

to verify that linux was seeing the correct card, and it was. Maybe I should have run

lspci -X

too

[MepisReign]

Re: Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

Ok, from scratch...
Install nvidia-glx-new
Open Konsole and type:
sudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Replace "nv" with "nvidia"
Reboot the system

That's it

Regards,

MepisReign

[bturrie]

Re: Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

X won't run with "nv" either

[opie]

Re: Nvidia 7300Le Graphics card not working, is it hosed?

If you want to at least be able to get into the gui in linux you can set the driver to "vesa" by booting into recovery mode and

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then I guess you will have to try to install the nvidia drivers manually.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...100.14.19.html


I'm going to post some key info in a post I keep for reference about installing these with debian. Follow them carefully. The driver compiles a bit. Of course you need to clean up nvidia-glx-new rather than nvidia-glx in the instructions

If you wish to install the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver on a Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu system that ships with Xorg 7.x, please ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

* development tools like make and gcc are installed
* the linux-headers package matching the installed Linux kernel is installed
* the pkg-config and xserver-xorg-dev packages are installed
* the nvidia-glx package has been uninstalled with the --purge option and the files /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx and /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel do not exist
...Edit the /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules or /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common configuration file and disable the NVIDIA linux-restricted kernel modules (nvidia, nvidia_legacy) via:

DISABLED_MODULES="nv nvidia_new"
Additionally, delete the following file if it exists:
/lib/linux-restricted-modules/.nvidia_new_installed