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mandog

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From: Peru

Registered: 2008-09-17

Posts: 218

Re: Can't install Nvidia driver.

try this as root in terminal

mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

<editor> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

and add the following codebox in its entirety to 20-nvidia.conf:

#
Section "Device"
         Identifier      "Device 0"
         Driver          "nvidia"
EndSection
# This is a trailing line, it is needed so that End Section is not the last line

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Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Can't install Nvidia driver.

Do you have an onboard video chipset in addition to the nVidia card you are trying to configure? If so, have you blacklisted the corresponding modules?
Has this card ever worked on another distro?

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erkin

Member

Registered: 2010-12-03

Posts: 56

Re: Can't install Nvidia driver.

It finally worked. I found where I did wrong; I made a typo while creating the 20-nouveau.conf file. Thank you all for your helps.

erkin

Member

Registered: 2010-12-03

Posts: 56

Re: Can't install Nvidia driver.

Hey, wait. Nouveau can't handle 3D? I either find a way to make Nvidia drivers work or find some other distro.

Gusar

Member

Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Can't install Nvidia driver.

Hey, wait. Nouveau can't handle 3D? I either find a way to make Nvidia drivers work or find some other distro.

It can. Particularly for your card, support should be quite good. Have you installed the nouveau-dri package?

Though the binary driver would give you more performance. Getting it working...
Uninstall all nouveau packages (which should also remove libgl), delete (or move somewhere else, so they won't interfere) 20-nouveau.conf and xorg.conf and any other .conf files you might have, install nvidia-173xx and nvidia-173xx-utils. Now modify 20-nvidia.conf, adding these two lines in the same Device section that defines the nvidia driver:

Option        "VertRefresh"      "DFP-0: 60"
Option        "HorizSync"        "DFP-0: 30-75"

And now reboot. HorizSync is a guess, it's from an old config of mine that I used for TV-out on my laptop with a 1280x800 display. For reference, the full config

Option    "TwinView"                   "on"
Option    "TVOutFormat"                "SVIDEO"
Option    "TVStandard"                 "PAL-B"
Option    "ConnectedMonitor"           "DFP, TV"
Option    "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder"  "DFP-0, TV-0"
Option    "TwinViewOrientation"        "TV-0 RightOf DFP-0"
Option    "VertRefresh"                "DFP-0: 60; TV-0: 50-60"
Option    "HorizSync"                  "DFP-0: 30-75; TV-0: 30-50"
Option    "MetaModes"                  "DFP-0: 1280x800, TV-0: 1024x768"