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From: William Witt 
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Seaside Peter wrote:
> 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....
> 
> 
I got a similar message after the last kernel update.  The 78xx version 
is the one included in the restricted modules package.  My understanding 
is that the driver must match the kernel module.  I don't do anything 
spectacular on my system so I reinstalled the drivers from repos (don't 
recall the actual package names) and went with the older modules.

You may also want to check out the nvidia drivers for the beryl project. 
  I tried it a while back, but decided the eye candy wasn't for me.
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/nVID
A#Installing_the_nVIDIA_Driver

I just had a thought about your monitor woes... Is your card dual head 
and if so have you tried hooking the monitor to the other output?

Will
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