AMD64 + Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 + Geforce 8500 GT = Ouch!

[ndepalma]

Hello, I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 x64 and I am having trouble getting Xorg to display ANYTHING at all. After putting the new card into my PCIe slot and turning it on, it gets past grub and then goes blank with splashy and Xorg. I have posted my log file. Could someone please help me?? Thanks for all help and suggestions! (Since everything blanked out, I installed the nvidia drivers from the console in recovery mode after doing a telinit 3. Thanks all!

(The new card is a EVGA e-GeForce 8500 GT) - lspci identifies it as all ????s

[AaronP]

Originally Posted by /var/log/messages

Sep 30 23:57:31 ORANGE kernel: [ 512.180610] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 100.14.19 Wed Sep 12 14:08:38 PDT 2007
Oct 1 00:00:04 ORANGE kernel: [ 37.381774] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-7184 Tue Aug 1 19:28:54 PDT 2006
Oct 1 00:13:17 ORANGE kernel: [ 35.156305] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-7184 Tue Aug 1 19:28:54 PDT 2006

It looks like a really old kernel module is getting loaded. Does X work if you reinstall the NVIDIA driver, and then stop working after you reboot? If so, this is an Ubuntu packaging bug and you should seek help from Ubuntu's support community.

[ndepalma]

This has been resolved. In case anyone was wondering - Ubuntu seems to reset your xorg.conf file and reload the default nv drivers upon reboot. To install the drivers straight from nvidia, I followed this guide for feisty fawn:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bi...erHowto/Nvidia

It works beautifully now!