I think you hit on it that it might be a migration scripting issue. When I was on intepid, I was using the restricted nvida driver (do not remember which one), not -nv and 3D was working perfectly. The problem appears to have been that when I performed the dist-grade, it might have reverted back to the -nv driver; not my intention at all.
I will try what you suggested when I get home, but why would it do that instead of keeping the driver? Is that by design as well? Marc On 3/24/09, Gaetan Nadon <mems...@videotron.ca> wrote: > Marc, > To answer your question in bug 320671 (my apologies for having misspelled > your name), the 9100M G motherboard GPU is not supported by the driver. > http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9100m_g_mgpu_us.html > I am not an expert, but I'll share my experience. I have just installed a > new nvidia card (gts 250) that was released this month. It's not officially > supported by anyone, not even nvidia has a driver for it on Linux. However I > am able to get that card working on both 8.04 and 8.10 using official Ubuntu > documentation. > > All devices on the PCI bus have ids so the driver can make decisions. The > ids are located in X.org nv_driver.c. Your GPU id is 0x10de0844 where 10de > identifies nvidia and 0844 identifies the 9100M G chipset. Your 0844 id and > my 0615 id both aren't there. If you run lspci -n you should get something > like this: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0844. Run lspci -v -s 01:00.0 and you get more > details, such as: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0844 > (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > This means the card is not "recognized". The driver may ignore this can and > the card may work as it is the case for me on 8.04. The driver may decide to > quit if it knows that it is not capable of handling the card. This is what > it seems to happen in your case (Ignoring unsupported device 0x10de0844). > > You have 3 choices when it comes to drivers: > 1) The default open source "nv" driver (2D only) maintained by Ubuntu > 2) The binary restricted driver (offered by the restricted driver manager - > nvidia-glx) which comes from nVidia but is packaged (but not supported) by > Ubuntu. Driver 177 in Intrepid does support your card. > 3) The binary nVidia driver obtained directly from nVidia.com which is shell > script installed. This is not supported by Ubuntu > > When booting a fresh install with a known GPU, the default nv driver is > always used. There are no cases where the restricted driver would be > used. If I understand your case correctly, the default "nv" driver just > does not work, the X server does not start and you have no desktop. > There may be a reason why the driver rejected your card, perhaps it > cannot handle a notebook GPU. It may be a programming error. My card was > erroneously recognized on Intrepid as another card. > > When you have a desktop running using the "nv" driver (which is not your > case) follow instructions: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia > > When you want to install the nvidia driver from nvidia.com (seems to be your > only choice) follow instructions: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaManual > Driver 177 is recommended and it works for me, while the later driver 180 > does not work. You will need to reinitialize the nvidia driver for each > kernel upgrade. > > Before you do any of this, try this simple action: backup and delete > /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It's empty on a fresh install and is generated when > booting. It may get the nv driver working. You said desktop was working > on Intrepid with default nv driver, and you said Jaunty live CD works > fine. That leaves only a migration problem in configuration scripts. > > -- > -nv reports it does not support GeForce 9100M G > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333040 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- -nv reports it does not support GeForce 9100M G https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
