Can't run X with the legacy driver

[Lk2]

Hi people!!!

Nice to write you ... or not I'm having a trouble and I want some help from you. First of all, excuse me if my English is not good enough, I'm still learning

I have a PC with a Nvidia GeForce2 MX440 and I was running an old nvidia driver that support my card. I haven't hardware acceleration (direct rendering), but for I want, it was enough.

Now, when I see the latest updates of the driver and watching my card port to the legacy driver I tried to change it on my PC.

First, that PC have not a screen ... no one connected to the VGA port. All that my card have is a s-video connection to a TV. I was able to see videos with Mplayer and launching MythTV (it enough for me).

When I first installed the official driver, before know the news that my card is now supported under legacy, I wasn't able to load Xorg. It's normal and I resolved it using a 8xxx driver. The, I tried to install using Nvidia official instaler the latest legacy driver (9631), and then all go down.

I can't load Xorg. Then, I tried to uninstall it (done!!!) and tried to install the legacy driver on Debian's repository (very old version, but I was trying!). The result was the same.

And now I'm writing here to you, at this hours, looking for a solution.

All the information that I suppose that you need to help me:

joseluis@shaka:~$ lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)

joseluis@shaka:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
...
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

joseluis@shaka:~$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia               3927180  0 
nvidia_agp              8092  1 
agpgart                29360  2 nvidia,nvidia_agp

And finally, my xorg.conf. I send it in a attachment because it's very big to put in the post.

If you need some more outputs, files or something tell me.

Very much thanks to all that read this 'bad-write' post ... Really sorry for my English!

[netllama]

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678

[Lk2]

Ok, sorry. I read that post yesterday but I don't read the 3a section.

Here is my nvidia-bug-report.log in the attachments.

Sorry and thanks for the help

[netllama]

1.0-7184 is no longer supported for your GPU. Please use 1.0-9631.

[Lk2]

Well, I installed today the last driver (9631) for legacy cards.

I have the same results. I post my Xorg.0.log and the files you required me:

[netllama]

The problem is here:
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)

You need to follow these instructions:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490

[Lk2]

I knew where the problem is, now I'm trying to solution it.

I follow the instructions:

1) Installed the driver via apt again and uninstall it with --purge option
2) Sure that /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx (or similar) doesn't exist.
3) Installed again the driver legacy with the sh installation method.

And then....

It works!!! Better than before, now I have direct rendering too!

Thanks a lot for your help .. I would search best for solutions in the next time.

sorry and thanks!!