I have and Nvidia GeForce 4 MX420 video card. After I ran xorgsetup (i
think that's what it was called), the performance was slightly better,
but it lacks the "high-performance" I used to get with the nvidia-glx
that came with Ubuntu. I've tried the Nvidia download and installation,
followed the instructions, and then the system hangs (no keyboard
function, black screen, no response). After I reboot I to reset the
xorg.conf file with "nv" or "vesa" as the video card to get into X. How
can I get this working properly? Thanks

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luke_z3 wrote:

> I have and Nvidia GeForce 4 MX420 video card. After I ran xorgsetup (i
> think that's what it was called), the performance was slightly better,
> but it lacks the "high-performance" I used to get with the nvidia-glx
> that came with Ubuntu. I've tried the Nvidia download and installation,
> followed the instructions, and then the system hangs (no keyboard
> function, black screen, no response). After I reboot I to reset the
> xorg.conf file with "nv" or "vesa" as the video card to get into X. How
> can I get this working properly? Thanks

Could you give a bit more info? What did you change in the xorg.conf file?
Was the nvidia module loaded (have you got it in rc.modules or somewhere
similar, does it show up in lsmod)? Can you show us the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
file for the failed X session.

Blumf

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luke first thing to do:
As Blumf said, post some bugs, errors, logs... something to work on,
also, check you BIOS setting, look for 'assign irq for vga' or
something similar.
Also, this Driver is a kernel module, check your dmesg output when you
insert the module into the running kernel, there is another important
thing, if your kernel supports rivafb you might get errors (this is
very unlike to happen)
Also, check your mtrr settings 'cause if your computer does not have
enough mtrr pages it might freeze as soon as Nvidia GPU starts shooting
numbers to the CPU...

Post some logs, /var/log/syslog, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, dmesg output

The driver did automatically use insmod, so I removed it and explicitly
used "insmod nvidia". It said the module was tainted, but added anyway.
However, I went ahead and installed the 2.6.10 kernel from the disc and
retried the nvidia driver. Now, it's working. (how about that?)
Anyways, I guess I'll stick with the newer kernel and not mess with the
kernel again until absolutely needed. Ultimately I would have used the
2.6 kernel because of my modem (something about that doesn't like the
2.4 kernel either).