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    Restricted drivers gone?

    I did an upgrade on all installed packages, and for some reason, the restricted drivers where lost and it will no longer detect my graphics card correctly.

    How do I force a detection/installation of the apropriate drivers? What went wrong?

    Of course, this is kind of a panic situation, so a quick response would be greatly appreciated.
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    #2
    Re: Restricted drivers gone?

    Originally posted by Troberg
    I did an upgrade on all installed packages, and for some reason, the restricted drivers where lost and it will no longer detect my graphics card correctly.

    How do I force a detection/installation of the apropriate drivers? What went wrong?

    Of course, this is kind of a panic situation, so a quick response would be greatly appreciated.
    Do the restricted drivers come from a repository other than those for everything else? Is your package manager set up to check that repository?

    I'm no expert, but those are the first thoughts that occurred to me.

    Hope it helps.
    I am relatively new to Linux, but quite experienced with DOS and Windows.&nbsp; I&#39;m comfortable editing things like fstab, etc., but I need specific instructions of what files to edit and what to add.<br /><br />My system is Kubuntu 10.10, using KDE 4.5.1.
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      #3
      Re: Restricted drivers gone?

      what kind of graphics card it is?
      Dell Inspiron 1720 Laptop<br />Intel T9300 Core2Duo Processor @ 2.5Ghz<br />4 GB Ram | 1920 X 1200 Resolution<br />2 X 160 GB SATA HD Internal<br />Nvidia GeForce 8600M Graphics Adapter<br />Using Kubuntu 9.10
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        #4
        Re: Restricted drivers gone?

        The drivers comes from the standard repository, and was installed when I first upgraded to Hardy with the restricted drivers application.

        To be quite honest, I don't remember what card it is, and it's a laptop, so it's not easy to open it up to check. It is not detected now, so the system falls back to VESA specifications.

        The problem occured, I think, when I upgraded VirtualBox, but I might be wrong about that.
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          #5
          Re: Restricted drivers gone?

          go to konsole and do
          Code:
          lspci
          and look for the video card info.
          Dell Inspiron 1720 Laptop<br />Intel T9300 Core2Duo Processor @ 2.5Ghz<br />4 GB Ram | 1920 X 1200 Resolution<br />2 X 160 GB SATA HD Internal<br />Nvidia GeForce 8600M Graphics Adapter<br />Using Kubuntu 9.10
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            #6
            Re: Restricted drivers gone?

            I too have similar problem.

            My config is

            Dell Vostro 1710, 2 GB, 250 GB sata, Nvidia 8600M GS, Hardy 8.0.4.1

            nvidia-glx was working fine with kernel 2.6.24-21-generic and
            even today it works fine if i fallback to it

            But with kernel 2.6.24-22-generic it fails

            I have tried nvidia-glx-new also but no effect, rather it
            breaks to blank GUI Screen

            Whats wrong with new kernel.

            as of today I purged nvidia-glx* and working with vesa

            GUI runs OK but OPENGL not available

            Can somebody help us
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              Re: Restricted drivers gone?

              The instruction in post #3 here seems to work for most folks with Nvidia cards. Of course the released driver is now 180.29:

              http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3100807.0

              Post back if it fails, with details on the step that didn't work.
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                Re: Restricted drivers gone?

                go to konsole and do
                Code:
                lspci
                and look for the video card info.
                Handy command, I'll remember that!

                Videocard seems to be nVidia GeForce FX Go5200. Not the hottest card in the world, but it's just a laptop...

                I also noticed some other oddities. When in KDE, it somehow reverted back to US keyboard, and the control center GUI for changing to Swedish is disabled, however, it's still Swedish if I log on as console only. I'm starting to consider a clean re-install...

                The instruction in post #3 here seems to work for most folks with Nvidia cards.
                Tried it, but couldn't download a precompiled kernel and couldn't compile a kernel (during driver installation).
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                  Re: Restricted drivers gone?

                  to have the driver compile, first you need build-essentials and the kernel headers (can't remember the name of the package for the headers...sorry)...once these are installed, you will be able to compile the driver...but for your video card, make sure you get the legacy version of the driver, because I don't think the 5000 series is supported in the new driver.
                  mm0
                  Dell Inspiron 1720 Laptop<br />Intel T9300 Core2Duo Processor @ 2.5Ghz<br />4 GB Ram | 1920 X 1200 Resolution<br />2 X 160 GB SATA HD Internal<br />Nvidia GeForce 8600M Graphics Adapter<br />Using Kubuntu 9.10
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                    #10
                    Re: Restricted drivers gone?

                    I gave up and re-installed instead, which made me find out that I still don't think KDE4 is ready for public use yet.
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                      Re: Restricted drivers gone?

                      Originally posted by dibl
                      The instruction in post #3 here seems to work for most folks with Nvidia cards. Of course the released driver is now 180.29:

                      http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3100807.0

                      Post back if it fails, with details on the step that didn't work.
                      Thanks a lot. I tried this today, I followed exact steps and its working fine.
                      The only change is I downloaded the latest driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run from Nvidia site

                      Version: 180.29
                      Operating System: Linux x86
                      Release Date: February 11, 2009

                      Available at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...32_180.29.html

                      my config is dell vostro 1710 17", 2GB, nVidia 8600M GS, ubuntu hardy 8.4.0.1
                      kernel is 2.6.24-22-generic

                      thank u very much ur guidance resolved my long pending issue.

                      keep it up

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                        #12
                        Re: Restricted drivers gone?

                        Originally posted by raja_s_patil

                        thank u very much ur guidance resolved my long pending issue.
                        8)

                        You're welcome.

                        @musicman, it's
                        linux-headers-`uname -r`
                        that way it looks for the package that matches the running kernel.
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