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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

Nvidia graphics card problem after update to 11.04

Asked by Michael Lamb

I have a XPS/Dimension 410/9200, ubuntu machine purchased from dell back in '07. Faithfully updated since '07, every update,

No problem 'til '07. My Nvidia card does not support Unity apparently.

So, the problem is: I try to install/activate the necessary drivers, which then requires a re-boot, but the drivers are not installed, I guess, before the login completes, because though the Unity screen appears, it does not respond to attempts to click etc.

My card details are: 1:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev a1)

More details are here:

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G72 [GeForce 7300 LE]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:dd000000-ddffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:de000000-deffffff memory:dfe00000-dfe1ffff

It occurred to me, that I might have to back out, to 10.10. If so, how do I do this? When I get a menu at boot, I see no option to go to 10.10. or, indeed, any other version. (My idea: after going back to 10.10, I would install drivers, then return to 11.04)

Thx, in advance

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try running:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

in a root recovery console then rebooting. May help

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Michael Lamb (michaelanthonylamb) said : 		#2

Running in recovery mode, and successfully running sudo nvidia-xconfig, I rebooted.

Situation remains the same.

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Michael Flaig (mflaig) said : 		#3

You can log into the Ubuntu classic (GNOME2) Interface?
Sure it's a graphics problem and not keyboard/mouse one?
what does you .xsession-errors and Xorg*.log say?

Tried nvidia-current?
I don't know if this graphics chip has already moved to legacy - suppose not as it seems to be working at least initially.
Finally you could try the free nouveau drivers

There is no way to downgrade an OS to the older distribution release. Neither is it possible to boot into the old Ubuntu Version as all packages got upgraded - or did you install on a new partition and leave the old release as it was?

You could load an older kernel if not already removed by the dist-upgrade but the nvidia drivers are always built for the currently running kernel by dkms.

You could downgrade the drivers by getting the packages from one of the archives by hand and installing them with dpkg. Afterwards you need to tell dpkg to not replace them with newer versions otherwise update-manager will pop up and want to update them.

If you really want to go back entirely you'll need to reinstall. But before doing that I would jump to the next ubuntu release although still in alpha and see if you can live with that. If not you can still reinstall.

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