Nvidia Driver Install

[Caleb14]

I'm hoping to install compiz or beryl, so I tried to install the nvidia video drivers. I followed this guide,

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_E...r_.28NVIDIA.29

and then when I restart I just get a black screen.

Here is my xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24

Any idea why this is happening? And how to fix this problem.

[sky]

Re: Nvidia Driver Install

Hi,

Did you install this ?
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
sudo nvidia-xconfig

Because there's few other install in the page.

Anyway can you give us more details about the error you get please ? It's in file /var/log/Xorg.0.log usually
or you can get it by the command startx from a console line.

[Caleb14]

Re: Nvidia Driver Install

follow the how to guide I posted managed to get the correct drivers installed. All my openGL games run. I not sure what happened, but when I went back to check my xorg.conf I discovered that there were three of them, the xorg.conf, xorg.conf.1, and xorg.conf.backup, I can only account for two of them. where xorg.conf.1 came from I have no idea. but it contains the information that is displayed in my previous post.
xorg.conf now has the following information.

Section "Device"
identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
boardname "nv"
busid "PCI:1:0:0"
driver "nvidia"
screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
depth 24
virtual 1600 1200
modes "1280x1024@60" "1400x1050@60" "1280x960@60" "1600x1200@60" "1280x854" "1152x768@54" "1024x768@60" "800x600@60" "800x600@56" "640x480@60"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "device" #
identifier "device1"
boardname "nv"
busid "PCI:1:0:0"
driver "nvidia"
screen 1
EndSection

While I am happy that xgl is enabled I am at a loss to explain how this happened as I had not changed anything in regards to install the driver.