Re: Problems with nVidia proprietary driver
On Tuesday 27 August 2013 22:51:46 berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> Le 27.08.2013 10:04, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > 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
>
> NVVidia's .run have an uninstall command (
> "#./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run --uninstall" ).
> If this does not work, a problem I had recently because I messed my
> system in a way or another, then it seem removing files by hand works
> (it worked here, but it was obviously painful as I had to care a big
> care of not removing files which were not from nvidia... note that I
> previously removed stuff I had installed through aptitude to reduce
> risks of messing more my system.). To know which files to remove, use
> the --extract-only option, go into the directory it creates, and ls.
>
> I hope it's not too late.
No. I have been out today. Thank you very much.
Anyone else: I'm going to bed now, so further help still useful! Shall work
on it tomorrow, and if I fail wipe and reinstall on Thursday. (I'm
downloading the torrent of Wheezy netinstall as I type.)
Lisi
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