[SOLVED] Nvidia Issues - see post 5
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:59 am
I'm having problems getting Mint 13 Mate and my Nvidia Geforce 6200 PCI card to play nicely.
After following the directions in this post: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=122257
I was able to get Mint 13 Mate installed and booted up using the "nomode xforcevesa" line added by editing at boot time. When I re-boot after installing or trying to install the Nvidia drivers, it seems that xorg.conf causes the boot to stop and I again have to add the "nomode xforcevesa" line to get into Mint 13 Mate.
My system is a Dell Dimenstion 2350 with:
-Integrated Intel ethernet and video chip (in the BIOS the ethernet is turned off to use a PCI ethernet card; the video is set to "Auto" [no option for "Off"] )
Here are the results of LSPCI
Results of INX query
Results for INXI Query before trying to install Nvidia driver
Results for INXI Query after installing the Nvidia driver from the Additional Drivers selection (version current-updates) and restarting
After downloading the driver I'm told I need to restart the computer to activate the driver, but a restart results in having to enter the "nomode xforecevesa" line from the grub menu to get X to run.
What am I missing?
Thanks
After following the directions in this post: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=122257
I was able to get Mint 13 Mate installed and booted up using the "nomode xforcevesa" line added by editing at boot time. When I re-boot after installing or trying to install the Nvidia drivers, it seems that xorg.conf causes the boot to stop and I again have to add the "nomode xforcevesa" line to get into Mint 13 Mate.
My system is a Dell Dimenstion 2350 with:
-Integrated Intel ethernet and video chip (in the BIOS the ethernet is turned off to use a PCI ethernet card; the video is set to "Auto" [no option for "Off"] )
Here are the results of LSPCI
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$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:04.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
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$ inxi -Fc 0
System: Host: gracie-2 Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Machine: System: Dell product: Dimension 2350 version: A02
Mobo: Dell model: N/A Bios: Mitac version: A02 date: 03/24/2003
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (sse sse2) clocked at 1794.117 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44A [GeForce 6200] X.Org: 1.11.3 driver: vesa Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz
GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A
Audio: Card: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network: Card: Realtek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:##:##:##:##:##
Drives: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (3.7% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD800BB 80.0GB
2: /dev/sdb Maxtor_98196H8 80.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 14G used: 4.4G (34%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 447M used: 26M (7%) fs: ext2
ID: /home size: 59G used: 1.1G (2%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 2.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info: Processes: 126 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 278.5/2012.5MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.33
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$ inxi -SGx
System: Host: gracie-2 Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44A [GeForce 6200] bus-ID: 01:04.0 X.Org: 1.11.3 driver: vesa Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz
GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A
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$ inxi -SGx
System: Host: gracie-2 Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44A [GeForce 6200] bus-ID: 01:04.0
X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: vesa,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev) FAILED: nvidia Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz
GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A
What am I missing?
Thanks