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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:35:38 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:37:33 pm | by PeterHewett | Revert |
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If the [XServer] doesn't start, you typically get a black screen or drop back to the command line. Be sure to check the server messages, and if necessary, the log file (<tt>/var/log/XFree.0.log</tt> or <tt>/var/log/Xorg.0.log</tt>).
If you use a "vanilla" 2.6.9 LinuxKernel, you will probably need nvidia driver version 1.0-6629 or later. 6111 and 5336 failed to compile against 2.6.9 for me (JohnMcPherson) due to a symbol that is no longer exported to modules by the kernel.
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+!!Support for older cards
+Sometime in the 0.7xxx series, nvidia dropped support for TNT,TNT2 and older GeForce2 cards from their unified driver. These have been moved to a separate "legacy" driver, although these are difficult to find on their website. In Ubuntu 5.10 ("Breezy"), you can install the <tt>linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386-nvidia-legacy</tt> package to get a pre-compiled module that works with the default packaged kernel. This will only work if you have apt configured to get packages from the "restricted" section of the breezy repository.
