fails to boot after Nvidia driver install

[saviger]

Everything runs great on the OS until I install the proprietary nvidia drivers. Ive re-installed the os then tried the other versions aviable on the "hardware drivers" tool. I even tried the newer ones on the nvidia website.
While booting it sets the power management settings then hangs with the [OK]. But it doesn't hard lock, and shuts down properly with press of power button.
My buddy also installed Ubuntu recently (on a same model laptop) and is having the same problem, so I dont think it has to do with KDE?
any thoughts or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for the help, Ive been looking through the forums and they are very informative.


I'm running dual 7900go's on a AMD64 system.

[arochester]

Re: fails to boot after Nvidia driver install

(on a same model laptop)

What laptop? Make? Model?

[dibl]

Re: fails to boot after Nvidia driver install

nVidia site says the latest driver (185.18.14) should support your GeForce Go 7900s:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

With dual cards (which I don't have), there's a "trick" needed to configure xorg.conf -- the issue is that there are actually two PCI bus addresses needed, to separate the two GPUs, so you have to edit xorg.conf to show the two addresses. I don't have a link handy -- but if you search on Ubuntu forum, I'm sure you can turn up a thread on the topic.

Also, if you haven't already done so, I would advise installing the downloaded driver, rather than using System>Hardware Drivers (kde-jockey). And I would do it at a tty console with the X server shut down, like this:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...4892#msg164892

[saviger]

Re: fails to boot after Nvidia driver install (fixed---Thx dibl)

thx for the help, Ive been in Win Server 2003 class (I know I know its the devil) all day but I will try it later tonight.

[saviger]

Re: fails to boot after Nvidia driver install (fixed)

Ok got it fixed. Used a combination of your manual install guide and editing the xorg.conf file with nano from the prompt until it worked for me. Also while searching the unbuntu forums I found that others with my laptop (Aura M9700) where having the same problem. Yet their conf file setups weren't working for me so I had to improvise.

Once again many many thanks dibl from me and my friend, e-mail has been sent with proper conf file to save the day!

Here is my final xorg.conf

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Unknown"
	ModelName   "Unknown"
	HorizSync    28.0 - 33.0
	VertRefresh   43.0 - 72.0
	Option     "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier   "Screen0"
	Device     "Device0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth  24
	Option "SLI" "on"
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth    24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier   "Mouse0"
	Driver     "mouse"
	Option     "Protocol" "auto"
	Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option     "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
	Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier   "Keyboard0"
	Driver     "kbd"
	# generated from default
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier   "Layout0"
	Screen   0 "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice  "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice  "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier   "Device0"
	Driver     "nvidia"
	VendorName   "NVIDIA Corporation"
	BusID	  "PCI:7:0:0"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	"DontZap"	"True"
EndSection