Have dual nvidia Quadro fx3800 cards, no SLI.

1. Does this process load coeect drivers for these cards?

2. Ran sudo nvidia-xconfig, the restarted computer and within Ubuntu, do not get gui but get terminal window asking for login. My username and password are not accepted. Any suggestions?

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dennis Reply:
September 1st, 2011 at 5:35 pm

i am trying to activate sli mode. i only have one monitor with two cards. cant find out how.would you know how? im running ubuntu 10.10

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i tried istalling using the installer in 10.10 (it asked me if i wanted to activate the nvidia graphics).
so i did. then it said i had to restart for it to work, but when i rebooted, i started in the terminal (no login screen, straight to terminal). i tried again 2 more times, reinstalling 10.10. same happened. then i tried your method, and the same happened, i got stuck trying to log out on the last step, then rebooted and bam! back to terminal. please help, this is really frustrating for a linux newb
have nvidia geforce g 210M
on an asus ul30v
(also tried downloading from nvidia page, but i cant run it because i dont know how to turn off all the drivers..)

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Thane Reply:
October 15th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

Same thing happened to me. One thing that got the GUI back was this:

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then rebooting. This is only a temporary fix, though. I haven’t tried this yet, but look at this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1565176

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Tor Espen Reply:
November 10th, 2010 at 9:52 am

You probably allready have this figured out, but Your UL30 is fitted with 2 videocards, when You enable the nvidiadriver it routes the picture to the nvidiacard, but the cards is not “connected” to your screen. Solution
Enter bios and change the setting for SATA enhanced/compatible settings.. restart.. done!

But i recomend unsless you are supposed t do realy heavy 3d stuff to just stick to the non-nvidia driver and let the intel card do the job… the nvidia driver is REALY laggy..

Good luck

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Non-linux n00b checking in. Same issue as above. As mentioned, destroying the offending xorg.conf fixed the problem, but still no nvidia drivers.

I tried using Xorg -configure to create a new xorg.conf file and it failed stating:

Fatal: Module nvidia not found.
Blah blah blah, Failed to load Nvidia kernel module, blah blah blah, No kernel modesetting driver detected.

Before I was able to try to install the nvidia drivers, the package updater did have me update the kernel headers. Makes me wonder if I was given a new kernel that didn’t have nvidia support. I am now dreading that I may have to compile a new kernel.

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My issue may actually be centered around the fact that my computer has onboard video and is pumping video out through it. So with my PEBCAKerey out of the way, disabling the onboard video in the BIOS should resolve my problem. I would confirm this, unfortunately HP dc5800s do not have the option to disable the onboard video card.

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Had similar issues installing, when I ended up at the terminal window I re-ran nvidia-xconfig which saved in my home folder, moved it to /etc/X11 and rebooted and all is working wonderfully now

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Too sleepy but I have the answer, I think. I ha similar issues. Add me up on msn. udaypatel5858@hotmail.com

Make sure you mention ‘ubuntu guide’ when sending me the email invitation.

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tried running the “sudo apt-get install nvidia-current”. it says, “E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)”
no idea what this actually is. i’m a newby.!

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~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

~$ sudo sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-current-modaliases nvidia-settings

Do NOT run sudo nvidia-xconfig if you have maverick.

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Aaron Reply:
February 16th, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Thanks NOT YOU, that looks like the correct answer (for me, at least)

but how do you run nvidia-settings without running nvidia-xconfig first?

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Daniel Reply:
February 19th, 2011 at 9:45 pm

Dude…thanks a lot this helped like charm…as you say xconfig does not work but settings does!

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Jeff M. Reply:
April 16th, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Thanks so much for that fix. I toiled for hours trying to get to my desktop after installing an Nvidia driver but only got the command prompt over and over. Now it works great! No issues.

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telugu_guy Reply:
July 8th, 2011 at 4:53 am

After I ran the first command (..ppa..), I didn’t get back the prompt again. So I closed the terminal and opened a new one and ran the second command. Everything worked fine and I restarted after that. I got all the GUI login screens as usual. The system will then ask you to run ‘sudo nvidia-xconfig’ to use ‘Nvidia X server settings’, but I think that is not required (as also said by XAC) because my cadence graph window maximization problem (when I connect to it remotely) is solved just after rebooting and without having to run that xconfig command. But even I don’t know much because I’m a fresh linux newbie. Thanks XAC for your very valuable help. I think the admin of this webpage also should consider this and edit the article appropriately ,because some users(those on maverick) without reading the comments just get trapped by executing ‘sudo nvidia-xconfig’!

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telugu_guy Reply:
July 8th, 2011 at 4:59 am

Sorry the user is not ‘XAC’ but ‘NOT YOU’

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BACKTRACK5 Reply:
December 25th, 2011 at 4:32 pm

just wanted to thank you for this information looked all over the web, this is the only place i found a fix

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I installed Maverick, then updates, and then nvidia-current (with nvidia-current-modaliases and nvidia-settings). System loads, i can see Nvidia logo, log in and everything’s fine till reboot (sometimes it takes two reboots) – then there’s no X at all, only console. xorg.conf is on place, unchanged, bud nvidia-current.ko disappears from /lib/modules/2.6.35-27-generic/updates/dkms/. Removing nvidia-* packages and installing them again helps – for next few reboots. What can i do with it?

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Thanks!!
I’m trying to upgrade my MythTV box to 10.10 and was getting into problems with the nvidia-xconfig command. Doing your method, removing the xorg.conf file, then rebooting. I had the right resolution. Running nvidia-xconfig again created the right xorg.conf file. I can now run the nvidia-server settings tool.
Linux people are a helpful bunch.

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just a noob note, in case not mentioned above…

after you blow away xorg.conf, nvidia-xconfig will automatically write a brand new generic config file.

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Hi, Im running ubuntu 10.10 on what used to be a windows vista. I bought me a new graphics card today so that i could run dual screen. (GeForce210). I saw this guide so i figured I would try it, I did

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

then restarted computer, logged in and in the terminal typed:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

After typing that I logged out. When I logged out it would not do anything so i restarted my computer, now I am getting stuck at a screen that says

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sda1: clean, 255658/294092280 files, 5031534/117616640 blocks
* Starting apparmor profiles
Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox

*setting sensors limits

Starting GNUstep distributed object mapper: start-stop-daemon: unable to stat /usr/bin/gdomap/ ( no such file or directory)

speech-dispatcher disabled: edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher

*starting the winbind daemon winbind

********************************************************
after that I can’t get it to do anything. I’m completely stuck and I have a huge assignment due tomorrow for class that needs printed off. Any help is very much appreciated.

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Very helpful thanks! also got terminal on restart, put the last command in and did a soft restart n had nvidia drivers.

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Alex P Reply:
April 5th, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Hi all,

Another Ubuntu newb here – I followed the directions up above, and after I restarted the computer I get the Ubuntu screen for half a second, and then the monitor goes black. Not even terminal, just black. How can I fix this and go back to my old video drivers?

Thanks!

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i tried istalling using the installer in 10.10 (it asked me if i wanted to activate the nvidia graphics).
so i did. then it said i had to restart for it to work, but when i rebooted, i started in the terminal (no login screen, straight to terminal). i tried again 2 more times, reinstalling 10.10. same happened. then i tried your method, and the same happened, i got stuck trying to log out on the last step, then rebooted and bam! back to terminal. please help, this is really frustrating for a linux.
my laptop is compaq presario cq40 601tu model,having pentium dual core proccesor.

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Thank you for the tip

Ubuntu is now trashed now and I have to reinstall

Dont do it

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rusty Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 6:34 am

if ubuntu doesnt start use live cd and edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf i just deleted contents with nano so goto
hard drive with installed ubunto locate
/etc/X11/xorg.conf start teminal type nano drag file and drop in terminal hit enter delete contents hit ctrl o then control x restart without live cd

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