help plse to get nvidia drivers working for geforce GT 440 on pclinuxos 2011 kde

[Just18]

Just18; is nouveau blacklisted in /etc/modprode.d/display-driver ?

On my system:

Code:

alias nvidia nvidia-current
blacklist nouveau

JohnW

Yes

Just checked Nvidia Settings .......  and it shows the 290 driver in use .....  similar to the pic menotu posted.


I don't know what has caused the message to appear during boot up, but as I mentioned it does not seem to be accurate, as the 290 driver is in use according to the Nvidia Server Settings utility.

[edge226]

I also have a GT 440. I installed today and encountered this issue but I usually bypass these issues with ease. Here is what I did.

PCLinuxOS Control Center > Hardware > Configure Video Card. It will probably show you as a Vesa card, even if it does not select your card from the list and go through all the prompts selecting your preferred options as you go, it will ask you if you want to use the proprietary driver, say yes. it will tell you that you need to reboot. Do so and it should work.

additionally the XFdrake command in a terminal as root will also allow you to change these settings without having to go through all the trouble of a GUI.

[Just18]

Just18; is nouveau blacklisted in /etc/modprode.d/display-driver ?

On my system:

Code:

alias nvidia nvidia-current
blacklist nouveau

JohnW

Yes

Just checked Nvidia Settings .......  and it shows the 290 driver in use .....  similar to the pic menotu posted.


I don't know what has caused the message to appear during boot up, but as I mentioned it does not seem to be accurate, as the 290 driver is in use according to the Nvidia Server Settings utility.

I continue to get this pop-up on each boot.

It will soon get annoying to the point where I will want to do something about it   .....  but I am hopeful someone will suggest something before that happens  

[kah5683]

I've been searching the forum for an answer to my video card issue.  I also have a GeForce GTX 550 Ti.  I just finished building a new computer and put in this new card.  I plugged the monitor into the card and it works, but I didn't know if it was configured correctly.  I went into PCC to configure, and I got a black screen when I pressed the config button.

I just installed nvdock, and it doesn't open.

I see in a post above that in /etc/modprobe.d/display-driver, there should be some items blacklisted.  I don't have display-driver under modprobe.d.  I have blacklist, blacklist-compat, and blacklist-pclos.  The only thing nvidia in there is nvidiafb in blacklist-compat.

(by the way, what are these blacklist files for?)

This is the result of rpm  -qa  |  grep  nvidia:

dkms-nvidia96xx-96.43.20-1pclos2011
x11-driver-video-nvidia96xx-96.43.20-1pclos2011
dkms-nvidia-current-290.10-1pclos2011
x11-driver-video-nvidia173-173.14.30-1pclos2011
dkms-nvidia173-173.14.30-1pclos2011
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-290.10-1pclos2011

Do I need to delete all but the 2 "current" ones?

I looked in the wiki for a nvidia how-to, but didn't see any.

Saw another post here on prelink and nvidia...I don't have it installed.