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Re: [LUG] googleearth and kubuntu

 

On Monday 13 November 2006 16:26, Simon Robert wrote:
> Mark Jose wrote:
> > A quick - and very useful runlevel guide to Ubuntu and Debian systems -
> >
> > http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-and-ubuntu-linux-run-levels.html
> >
> > May be worth a look - I found it quite interesting,
> >
> > Mark
>
> It worked! So the nvidia people have done as they said they'd do. I
> think the release of the latest driver upgrade can only be a few weeks
> old, maybe less even as the cycle is six monthly and the stuff on the
> nvidia forum was July.
>
> Just mention in passing, there is no inittab file in kubuntu.
>
> Whoops, since the above, which I got by installing the driver after a
> console login and then doing a startx command I've rebooted. This
> resulted in another console login, but no success with startx. Instead a
> message about mismatched modules in the kernel and driver - 7684 versus
> 9129.
>
> I copied back the various backed up xorg.conf files in turn, but the
> only one that worked is the one previous to the automatix install of
> nvidia drivers. So googleearth in glx, which means it starts OK but
> shows no image at all.
>
> As the nvidia install threw up a message about the xorg sdk missing I am
> currently installing the xorg dev files. The one adept entry actually
> produces a download of 74 files.
>
> Well try again.........
>
>
> No difference. No message about missing SDK, all went smoothly. Startx
> several times and look at googleearth. An exit takes me back to a
> graphical logon and logging in is fine, startx etc etc. Then shutdown
> and reboot and it's all the same. startx does nothing and I'm back where
> I started.
>
> Anyone... anything...
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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Simon,
That sounds like a problem between the Ubuntu nvidia driver and the one from 
Nvidia.  I would remove the Ubuntu one completely, and also the restricted 
modules which you would have installed for the driver to work.
Then install the nvidia driver. 
Mark

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