Re: Problems with nVidia proprietary driver
On Monday 26 August 2013 23:24:45 Greg Madden wrote:
> > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
> > (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> > compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
> > Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> > (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module
> > [snip] can't quite make it out accurately enough to copy. Short
> > message saying to look at the system's kernel log if you want to see
> > more messages. (EE) NVIDIA (tangled up with above)
> > (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> > (II) Unloading nvidia
> > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia"(module-specific error, 0)
> > (EE) No drivers available.
> > Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> >
> > I have downloaded the correct driver for my husband's card (GTX 650
> > TI)
[snip]
> > But I would presumably need to unistall
> > whatever is there now first.
[snip]
> > Ideas and suggestions please! I don't want to reinstall and put up
> > with nouveau if I can avoid it. :-(
>
> The proprietary Nvidia installer does a good job of configuring
> everything here, just works. It will write a new .xorg file and backup
> the old file, if present.
>
> Caveats, no Debian Nvidia stuff installed,
So how do I get rid of what I have just installed?
> blacklist the nouveau
That seems to have been done successfully.
> driver, which Nvidia installer offers to do, that is not a reference
> to a Linux kernel version.
Thank you for your reply.
Lisi
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