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From: Seaside Peter 
Subject: nvidia woes again
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:47:41 +0000
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I may be getting closer to why I can't get the nvidia drivers running on
my Edgy box...and could do with some pointers.

I removed everything nvidia that I could find, then re-ran the nvidia
installer. After altering nv to nvidia in my xorg.conf file and
re-starting X, the usual problem occurred - that is, Gnome runs invisibly
and the monitor switches off.

But this time, on rebooting in recovery mode, I found a message in the log
file saying something like "kernel module is .7814 and nvidia driver is
9476 (numbers inaccurate - best remembrance).

My question - what bloody module? And how do I update it?

I'm running kernel 2.6.17.11 generic.

Tearing my hair out on this one....

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