• Registered: 2009-10-19
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Topic: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

Hi all,

I'm at wits end.

I've been trying to get the nVidia drivers installed for about half the day.


The drivers I download from nvidia.com will not compile no matter what I do. It tell me I have the wrong version of gcc (it needs 4.3 which I set in my path)
AIf I ignore that it will continue, but then prompts me that I need to have the kernel source tree for the current running kernel installed (which I have)

If I try synaptic I get this lovely message:

nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx:
 Depends: nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-173.14.25

And this package doesn't exist


I have tried the howtos on these forums and I'm getting desperate, not to mention my wife is about to kill me as we use this comp to watch movies on our tv (for wich I need the drivers .......


Anyone?

Last edited by Thaery (2010-08-30 03:17:00)

  • Registered: 2009-05-13
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

i had that same video card and cant recall having to install nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-173.14.25.
i just installed the kernel headers and went installed the driver from there.

  • Registered: 2009-10-19
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

That's odd, might just be a temporary issue with the repos though

  • Registered: 2009-10-19
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

Let's make things worse...... the nouveau driver also won't work......

  • hhh
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  • Registered: 2010-08-04
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

-edit- deleted, these instructions don't work...

Last edited by hhh (2010-09-01 11:53:01)

  • Registered: 2009-10-19
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

I have already tried that on a fresh install.. That give me the message it requires the Kernel Source Tree.
I did have that installed but it wouldn't find it even when I gave it the path .

  • hhh
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

What's your sources.list look like?

-edit- I used the instructions from my post when installing the Nvidia driver on PureOs/Gnome (also based on squeeze) and didn't have to alter any paths. Also, I'm downloading the Statler iso now to try it on a testing partition, I'll post back when that's done (it's downloading very slowly right now). My driver is the Nvidia 6150LE (integrated/motherboard).

-edit- Which ISO are you using, OB or Xfce?

-edit- Does this looks like what you're experiencing?..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1565286

Last edited by hhh (2010-09-01 02:50:59)

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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

Ok, I downloaded and installed the Openbox version of Statler and experienced some of the issues you reported when trying to install the driver the Nvidia way (without X running), namely...
- error message about the kernel compiler not matching the current compiler, so I downgraded to gcc 4.3, but then...
- error message about make sure kernel-source or kernel-dev is installed.

So I logged back in and did a search in Synaptic for kernel-source and a bunch of nvidia packages came up. The following worked for me...

- Via Synaptic, install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig and dependencies
- in a terminal run sudo nvidia-xconfig , ignore the warning
- reboot and login
- Open the run dialog (At+F2) and run gksu nvidia-settings
- Configure your X Server Display, apply, Save to X Configuration File, for me it defaulted to /etc/X11/XF86Config, save and quit.

I've never seen XF86Config before (it's always been xorg.conf for me) but everything was still in place after another reboot.

-edit- For me, installing nvidia-kernel-source pulled nvidia-glx, which is useless for you as nvidia-glx is only for 6*** series cards and higher. However, I just marked nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx for installation and it installed that and nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx-dkms (and removed nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-dmks) with no problems. I hope nvidia-kernel-source will pull the right driver for you.

I hope that helps

Last edited by hhh (2010-09-01 12:29:44)

  • Registered: 2010-04-26
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

I've installed 32bit xfce version of statler
and I can't sort out how to access tty1 so I can run an nvidia install shell script.
The xdm chooser doesn't have a no-X terminal choice.
I know this is old, wanting to access tty1, but I do feel comfortable with the command line.

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  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

To access tty1 press Ctrl-Alt-F1.

Note: ** Please read before posting **

BTW if you wish to contact me, send me an e-mail instead of a PM.
  • Registered: 2010-08-20
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Re: Statler nVidia FX5500 driver problem

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … l-problem/

What I did was downloaded the latest nVIDIA drivers and renamed them to nvid, wrote down the path to the files, Ctrl-Alt-F1'ed in to tty1, and ran the setup. It asked for a certain set of linux headers, I wrote those down, and sudo apt-get installed them, then the installation ran fine.

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