Hi,
I am using Netrunner for about 3 months without any problems and prior my attempt to install NVIDIA ensured that Netrunner was fully updated.
System Information:
OS Information
OS: Linux 3.2.0-43-generic x86_64
Current user: karl@karl-System-Product-Name
System: Netrunner Dryland Second Edition
KDE: 4.8.5 (4.8.5)
Display Info
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model:
2D driver: nouveau
karl@karl-System-Product-Name:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Netrunner
DISTRIB_RELEASE=4.2.1
DISTRIB_CODENAME=dryland-se
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=“Netrunner Dryland Second Edition”
CPU Information
Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz
Speed: 1,998.00 MHz
Cores: 2
Memory Information
Total memory (RAM): 3.3 GiB
Free memory: 1.9 GiB (+ 714.7 MiB Caches)
Free swap: 8.0 GiB
uname -a
Linux karl-System-Product-Name 3.2.0-43-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15 03:33:33 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
sudo lspci | grep -i vga
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
I followed the instructions as per “starbuck” 3rd January 11:39
http://forums.netrunner-os.com/showthread.php?tid=4
“To use the code, you open the terminal window with Yakuake (the blue icon on the right side of the default panel) and paste the code below:”
Code:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
Please note the comment displayed on the Yakuake screen at the end of the NVIDIA installation:-
“Loading new nvidia-current-304.88 DKMS files…
First Installation: checking all kernels…
Building only for 3.2.0-43-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
Setting up pkg-config (0.26-1ubuntu1) …
Setting up policykit-1-gnome (0.105-1ubuntu3.1) …
Setting up screen-resolution-extra (0.14ubuntu2) …
Setting up nvidia-settings (304.88-0ubuntu0.0.2) …
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-settings/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nvidia_settings.conf (nvidia_settings_conf) in auto mode.
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools …
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-43-generic”
“Then restart the computer.”
The default Netrunner Splashscreen disappeared and is now “black” but it indicates “Netrunner” with 4-‘point indicators’ showing beneath.
“Open yakuake again and execute:”
Code:
nvidia x server settings
karl@karl-System-Product-Name:~$ nvidia x server settings
nvidia: command not found
In Settings ==> NVIDIA X Server Settings
“You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run nvidia-xconfig as root), and restart the X server.”
karl@karl-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for karl:
root@karl-System-Product-Name:~# nvidia-xconfig
Using X configuration file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”.
Backed up file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’ as ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup’
New X configuration file written to ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’
In command…Alt+F2
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf - Kate
nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
nvidia-xconfig: version 304.88 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-06) Wed Mar 27 15:32:58 PDT 2013
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0”
Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
EndSection
Section “Files”
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”
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “Unknown”
ModelName “Unknown”
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option “DPMS”
EndSection
Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Device0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
In ‘Size & Orientation’
The only monitor sizes available are:
800x600
640x480
640x400
320x400
Also (in the meantime ) the Muon Update Manager is prompting to install System Updates viz:
xserver-xorg-video-ati
libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-glx
libgl1-mesa-glx (i386)
libglapi-mesa
xserver-org-video-intel
libxtracker1
xserver-org-video-noueveau
xserver=xorg-video-radeon
When clicking on ‘Install Updates’:
“The following pieces of software cannot be authenticated…” viz:
libdrm-nouvau2
libllvm3.1
libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-glx
libgl1-mesa=glx
libglapi-mesa
libglapi-mesa
libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-nouvau
I am stumped and request assistance to either rectify this situation or uninstall (remove completely) NVIDIA and reinstate the default driver.
And what to do with the updates currently offered.
Also the text displayed lost its ‘sharp’ edges is now blurry and when ‘mousing’ over a ‘button’ the mouse-pointer is on some buttons not visible anymore. TIA.