nvidia 9500m gs question

[plunder]

I have an Acer Aspire 6920G, I'm running the nVidia 9500 as well, ubuntu 8.10 desktop x64, worked right out of the box, it does catergorize it as a Restricted Hardware Driver. No problems with video yet.... wish I could say the same for sound.

[lorenfb]

Attempting to load 8.10 results in system crash shortly before
install completion. Tried the direct install twice with same
results. Appears to run off of 8.10 CD O.K. Version 7.10 crashes
immediately when the video driver is tested during the CD load.
Version 8.10 appears to make BIOS changes during the install.

System:
HP Slimline - AMD Quad 9100, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA 9500GS/512MB, SATA 250GB

Based on previous posts, it appears that the 4GB RAM and the 9500GS
video may be the sources of the problem for both 7.10 and 8.10.

Had hoped to use a direct eSATA 8.10 install to selectively utilize
Ubuntu without having a partitioned drive, but any 8.10 install is
problematic. So, it's back to using Vista.

[add2700]

I did an upgrade to 8.10 on my ASUS laptop with NVIDIA 9700 and it rocks with 1680X1050 res.

[drdeath691]

Just wanted to say Thanks a lot to all inputs in this post. I was able to get MY laptop up and going using the Patch. I tried a fresh install using latest updates but it didn't work. Using the patch was the only thing that worked for me. My only issue is that I can't get 1680x1050 resolution. I know my laptop and video card can support it but I just can't figure it out. Any help would be great.

Current Xorg.Conf:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@crested) Mon Nov 3 08:46:04 UTC 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "AUO"
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 9500M GS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[add2700]

Sorry people, 8.10 does run 1680 res in basic mode but not with the NVIDIA driver so it's slow. Going to try to recompile again.

[splinterpaw]

Updated the Ubuntu kernal recently on my G1SN and am having problems running the command:

sudo apt-get source linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic

Regardless of what version I put in for this command, the following is returned:

Unable to find a source package for linux

Any ideas if something changed with the recent updates? This did work before with the 2.6.27-7 kernal but does not seem to be working now.

[splinterpaw]

Updated the Ubuntu kernal recently on my G1SN and am having problems running the command:

sudo apt-get source linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic

Regardless of what version I put in for this command, the following is returned:

Unable to find a source package for linux

Any ideas if something changed with the recent updates? This did work before with the 2.6.27-7 kernal but does not seem to be working now.

Finally had a chance to play with this and figured it out. It turns out that not all of the needed repositories were active on my install, therefore it could not find the image. I have activated the necessary repositories and it is working now.

[kyllikki]

- You will have to do this process every time Ubuntu releases a kernel update(or until it the issue is fixed by the OEM...if ever). If you do not wish to go through the process again, make sure not to update your kernel(linux-image, or linux-header packages).

In compliment to this post is it possible for somebody to describe how to prevent the linux-image and linux-header packages from getting updated? I have tried 'locking' these packages in Synaptic but no such luck - they still get overridden if an update is ran.

[siddtharth]

I have the same problem only difference is I have 3gb RAM and NVIDIA 7600Go with has 128MB dedicated memory. I tried to modify the 256MB patch and changed 'r->end = 0xd0000000' to 'r->end = 0xc8000000' to created 128MB gap, but this didn't work so can you tell me if this is the correct way to do this for my config ? I have attached out put of `dmesg`

[Rinias]

What is the status of this "fix" for 8.10, please ?

I am considering doing this (Asus G1Sn-B1 with 8.10 amd64), but if it is not working, I think I'd rather stick with nv instead of going through the headache of doing a kernel recompile in a system that doesn't like that sort of thing (think Synaptic updates). After all, if I wanted to recompile things, I'd go with a different flavor...

And if the fix is simply to patch the kernel, why has this not yet been done ? How hard could it be to patch the kernel for this and use some kind of hardware detection in the restricted drivers dialogue in order to give us what we need ? Ie, installing the correctly patched kernel and then the nvidia driver via the Hardware Drivers dialogue ?

I think I'll give it a go anyway, and I'll post back here with my success (or lack thereof) in a bit...

Rinias

PS : Anyone know why the generic kernel (2.6.27-9) would have Xen (and thus be non-compatible with the standard nvidia .run package install method) ?
( PPS : Is the rt kernel necessary to this method or will any kernel do ? ) ==> Reading the all of the original post would be good...

# Modify flavours in debian/rules.d/amd64.mk (rt instead of generic)
sudo CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 fakeroot debian/rules custom-binary-rt

Fourniii from the nvnews forums also makes a note :

Here's the new way of doing it, note the editing of amd64.mk to only build the rt flavour.

I'll be outside if you're looking for me :s

PPS (v2) : add2700, I see that you updated for 8.10 x86_64 on the nvnews forums. You added two links, one to backports.ubuntu and the other to Envy. The backports link doesn't seem to work, is there somewhere else I can access this information ?