evga 8600 GT superclocked

[redneckracin]

ok i downloaded the beta driver for this card and I went into init 3 as root and installed the driver. I also changed my xorg.conf to load glx and set my driver to nvidia instead of just "nv".

But upon boot up after the loading screen (feisty btw) my xserver fails and tells me that my nvidia kernel version and driver version are not the same.

I don't know exactly how to fix this. Help?

[Michael]

Sounds like you are having problems with the Linux restricted modules in Feisty Fawn. I have experienced the issue before but had just removed the restricted modules deb or you can just blacklist nvidia in the restricted modules.

[redneckracin]

how do i delete the restricted modules?

i look in my restricted moudules manager and there is nothing to do with my graphics card

[Michael]

apt-get remove linux-restricted-modules

[redneckracin]

it says it couldn't find any restricted modules

[Michael]

Then try apt-get remove linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)

[redneckracin]

ok there was still nothing there. Are there dependencies for the new driver for the 8*** series?

[Michael]

ok there was still nothing there. Are there dependencies for the new driver for the 8*** series?

The dependency is having the proper NVIDIA driver. For the 8500/8600 series you MUST be using the 100.14.03 display drivers (or newer, once out).

[redneckracin]

ok i think my problem was i was doing this stuff in init 1. How do i get into init 3 in ubuntu? i tried sudo init 3 but i got nothing

[tuke81]

There is no runlevel 3 on ubuntu. Ubuntu works in two different runlevels, recovery(1) and normal use(2)(ok you can tell init to use 3-5 runlevels aswell but those aren't different than runlevel 2). And besides you should not install nvidia drivers in runlevel 1, it's not recomended.

But for installing drivers from nvidia's binaries, you have to disable x(or gdm or kdm or xdm). Well quickiest way with ubuntu gnome:
alt+cntrl+f1 -> login
sudo killall gdm
And install drivers. But it is not that easy you will need some dev packages and kernel headers to install them, so it could be better to follow mr. tseliots guide:
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Edgy#METHOD_2
(note it's for edgy I know. But it's should work with feisty same way)