GeForce 9600 drivers for linux?

[Spacebaboon]

thanks for your reply I'll give it another go. I'm not sure if I'm doing it in the correct environment. I can't do a normal boot, as it will try to start the X server, which looks like it's continuing to load, but the screen is blank. so I'm starting in recovery mode from Grub, then doing 'init 3' to restart me normally but without starting X. and then downloading the new driver with wget, and running it with sudo and following the ncurses screens.

It sounds like there's a new nv driver, that might be a good starting point, so at least I can get something up. it's very slow to have to boot into windows to read any web pages, after the linux installs fail!

[Chaoticwhizz]

Ive tried the latest beta driver for Nvidia 9600 and cant get it work. It installs fine but after I reboot I just get a blank screen when it would normally load the X server. When this happens, my monitor flashes a "no signal" message and then goes into low power mode. I can dual-boot into Windows XP fine as well as boot into Kubuntu using the "vesa" driver. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the driver several limes. Even tried removing anytning that mentions mvidia from adept (Kubuntu package manager) I cant find anything out of place in the xorg.0.log files since it only lists the like last time I used VESA. The "NV" driver does not work at all

[keltren]

If your xorg.conf mentions the "nv" driver you're using the opensource nvidia driver, which is very unlikely to support the 9600. The closed source driver is called "nvidia" so the graphic card section in your xorg.conf needs to look something like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9600 GT"
EndSection

[Spacebaboon]

the nv driver has been updated - 2nd paragraph here
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=NjM3OQ

I haven't had time to try this yet.

[Chaoticwhizz]

If your xorg.conf mentions the "nv" driver you're using the opensource nvidia driver, which is very unlikely to support the 9600. The closed source driver is called "nvidia" so the graphic card section in your xorg.conf needs to look something like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9600 GT"
EndSection

I was running the Nvidia driver. I meant to say that I had also tried the nv driver and couldnt get that to work either. I shouldnt post when I am frustrated and half-asleep

Since my last post, I ran "sudo nvidia-xconfig" which made several changes to my xorg.conf file. but after rebooting the monitor loses signal and shuts down just like before. in case it helps, my monitor is a brand new 19 inch Hanns-G JW199D. it is also widescreen. The monitor works perfectly in WinXP

here is my xorg.conf after running the above nvidia-xconfig

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Wed Feb 20 17:07:14 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[Spacebaboon]

I'm still trying to get mine to work. I ran the nv-bug-report.sh, the full output is too big to paste in here, but I've found what I think is the problem.

NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 171.06 Wed Feb 20 16:40:08 PST 2008
NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 100.14.19 Wed Sep 12 14:12:24 PDT 2007
NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 171.06, but
NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.19. Please
NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
NVRM: components have the same version.

that's quite a difference! I think it's because when I set the system up originally, I turned on the restricted driver for NVidia in the settings manager.

as I'm restricted to a command-line interface until I get X working, how would I remedy this?

[Chaoticwhizz]

I'm still trying to get mine to work. I ran the nv-bug-report.sh, the full output is too big to paste in here, but I've found what I think is the problem.

NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 171.06 Wed Feb 20 16:40:08 PST 2008
NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 100.14.19 Wed Sep 12 14:12:24 PDT 2007
NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 171.06, but
NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.19. Please
NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
NVRM: components have the same version.

that's quite a difference! I think it's because when I set the system up originally, I turned on the restricted driver for NVidia in the settings manager.

as I'm restricted to a command-line interface until I get X working, how would I remedy this?

Can you get it to work using the vesa driver? vesa is a basic 2D only driver to use when no other video driver works.Try this

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

nano is a basic easy-to-use text editor that works from the command line. When the file opens scroll until you see driver "nvidia" and change it to "vesa" then save the file, exit nano and reboot. If the above line doesnt swork then nano may not be installed. You can just install through apt-get

sudo apt-get install nano

Hope this helps.

[Spacebaboon]

I'm more a vi man, actually.

but that helped, the vesa driver let me get X going well enough, and I was able to disable the Nvidia restricted driver, which was the problem.

with that gone, and with a reinstall of the NVidia driver, everything is running perfectly.

thanks for all the help

[jseiser]

this card works fine with arch 32, but with ubuntu hardy 64, and arch 64, X crashes with a screens error, the same xorg works fine with 32bit arch. So i imagine its a driver issue? he, i feel wrong running this 9600 and a phenom with evilwm. lol.

[brainkilla]

they don't work for me, not even the today-new 171.06 driver with 9600gt support.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=109422

I've followed the installation instructions, it's built the drivers, recompiled the kernel, and let it reconfigure my xorg.conf, but when I startx, it fails, saying it has found screens, but none suitable, and in the log it just says
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

I'm running Kubuntu Gutsy, Pentium Dual Core E2160, Sparkle 9600gt Silent.

Are you running the stock kernel, or have you compiled a vanilla one? Anything newer than 2.6.23 will cause you serious troubles, due to some miniscule yet significant changes in the kernel tree... I had to revert to 2.6.23 thanks to the fact the card could not be initialised with 2.6.24.2, which I was running at the moment of purchase (that is, yesterday ). It took me an afternoon to figure out what was the exact nature of my problem, but when I did everything automagically worked... oh, yes, running XFX 9600GT over here