[CLUG] Ubuntu fails install on nVidia Geforce4

[Michael Sharpe]

Did you or can you try this line below as super user?

dpkg-reconfigure -a xserver-xorg

Other than that can you post the output of your config file for X?
Also in the X log file you should see a line starting (EEE) error...
if it mentions can't find screen it means the screen isnt configured
correctly in the X.org config file.

On a more worrying note, I only found one place over here in the Preston
area in Lancashire where I can get "the official pint of us" and when I
did gleefully place my order they poured it like it was a pint of lager.
I didn't pay obviously.  Q:  Does this sort of treatment even in the UK
warrant death by cattle prod abuse to the offender?  ;-)

Advice appreciated.

Hope this helps.

Mick.

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:35 +0000, Robert Sweetnam wrote:
> Peter Flynn wrote:
> >
> > I did download the updated nVidia driver package from nvidia.com, but 
> > it won't execute in single-user mode because some of the system 
> > daemons won't execute in that mode. In any case, I don't really want 
> > them: I want the existing (OSS) nv driver, which I already know works.
> >
> > I did manage to purge aptitude of all packages containing .*nvidia.* 
> > (and their dependencies) so I believe I am now untainted, but before I 
> > try to locate and manually install the linux-headers, build-essential, 
> > etc .debs, has anyone any bright suggestions about how to coerce the 
> > system into loading the nv driver? The problem is that I don't know 
> > what it's called, or where it lives, or what to put in /etc/modload.d 
> > to make it load at boot time.
> >
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
>  I presume you can edit xorg.conf? If you can, change the driver entry 
> there. IIRC "nv" is nvidia's own driver and "nvidia" is the OSS one.
> 
> Cheers
> Robert
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