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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:02:53 -0500, William Witt wrote:

> 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/nV
DIA#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

Thanks for the input Will... yes, my card is dual head, so I will try your
suggestion. 

Perhaps I should also try the legacy driver, since there doesn't seem to
be an updated matching restricted module....
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