Trying to get my Nvidia Model P73 Geforce4 MX 420 to run on 8.04 Hardy Ubuntu

I found this link that got me going.

http://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/04/19/fix-nvidia-drivers-after-hardy-heron-rc1-upgrade/

I tried envyNG  a go, and it worked to about but I was unable to enable the custom driver.

I need to retrace some of my previous posts…

Ok… Video card I have

Ok… to see what kind of video card
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Video

jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 1106:0314
00:00.1 0600: 1106:1314
00:00.2 0600: 1106:2314
00:00.3 0600: 1106:3208
00:00.4 0600: 1106:4314
00:00.7 0600: 1106:7314
00:01.0 0604: 1106:b198
00:0b.0 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 04)
00:0b.2 0c00: 1102:4001 (rev 04)
00:0f.0 0104: 1106:3149 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.3 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
00:11.0 0601: 1106:3227
00:11.5 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 60)
00:11.6 0780: 1106:3068 (rev 80)
00:12.0 0200: 1106:3065 (rev 78)
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0172 (rev a3)
jonas@Ubuntu4:~$

Ok… At the moment I’m reading a the documentation for 96.43.05 Driver which tells me that this is the correct driver for this card.
I have that on my EnvyNG list of drivers installed….. So I’m going to give that a go.

I read somewhere about firing up

jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ nvidia-settings

Clicking through the tabs, I think I found my issue.

Fail to query the GLX server vendor.

This looks real promising
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1148293&highlight=Fail+query+GLX+server+vendor.

Ok.. so I think

So
I ran this

ERROR: Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root.
jonas@Ubuntu4:~/Desktop$ sudo Run nvidia-bug-report.sh
[sudo] password for jonas:
sudo: Run: command not found
jonas@Ubuntu4:~/Desktop$ sudo nvidia-bug-report.sh

Running nvidia-bug-report.sh… complete.

The file nvidia-bug-report.log has been created; please send this report,
along with a description of your bug, to linux-bugs@nvidia.com.

jonas@Ubuntu4:~/Desktop$ gedit nvidia-bug-report.log

And it looks like the issue is this:

-> Kernel messages:
[ 55.369842] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 55.913898] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 96.43.05, but
[ 55.913902] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 71.86.04. Please
[ 55.913903] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 55.913904] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 61.003630] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 96.43.05, but
[ 61.003634] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 71.86.04. Please
[ 61.003636] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 61.003637] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 66.305597] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 119.239670] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 119.240249] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 119.301101] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
[ 120.618839] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 120.620711] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 120.621217] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 4178.822549] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 4178.823091] agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
[ 4178.823240] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4178.823470] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4179.021178] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 4179.021589] agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
[ 4179.021773] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4179.022040] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4754.206098] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.09 Mon

Ok… So According to the ubuntu thread I need to remove everything Nvidia, reboot and let envyNG do it’s thing….
Ok…

Soo…. Need to publish now if things go real bad…

Thing’s to not go real bad… But the “Fail to query the GLX server vendor” issue still persists.

Ok… But the thread continues..

So…. Rerunning the Nvidia bug Report… I find this message which looks less errorish than the last run.

-> Kernel messages:
[   55.369842] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[   55.913898] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 96.43.05, but
[   55.913902] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 71.86.04.  Please
[   55.913903] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[   55.913904] NVRM: components have the same version.
[   61.003630] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 96.43.05, but
[   61.003634] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 71.86.04.  Please
[   61.003636] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[   61.003637] NVRM: components have the same version.
[   66.305597] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[  119.239670] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[  119.240249] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[  119.301101] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
[  120.618839] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[  120.620711] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[  120.621217] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 4178.822549] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 4178.823091] agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
[ 4178.823240] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4178.823470] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4179.021178] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 4179.021589] agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
[ 4179.021773] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4179.022040] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4754.206098] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  96.43.09  Mon

Ok.. What I get out of this. I tried to stick in 96.43.05 but the system was squaking that it had 71.86.04 in it. It seems that my card is supported by 71.86.04… So I guess I should try this process again and have EnvgNG install 71.86.04 and see what happen??

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/71.86.04/README/README.txt

Ok… Now that’s weird… Things are behaving different but still not working… Nvidia-Settings is squaking even more and I get the same error message even though I installed the 71.86.04 driver (I think I did……
> Kernel messages:
[

55.369842] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 55.913898] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 96.43.05, but
[ 55.913902] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 71.86.04. Please
[ 55.913903] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 55.913904] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 61.003630] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 96.43.05, but
[ 61.003634] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 71.86.04. Please
[ 61.003636] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 61.003637] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 66.305597] eth0: no IPv6 routers present [ 119.239670] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 119.240249] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 119.301101] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
[ 120.618839] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 120.620711] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 120.621217] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 4178.822549] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 4178.823091] agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
[ 4178.823240] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4178.823470] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4179.021178] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 4179.021589] agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
[ 4179.021773] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4179.022040] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 4754.206098] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.09 Mon
Oct 27 14:23:30 PST 2008
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[EDIT]

Ok… I wound up getting everything running using the 96.43.05 driver by following instructions on jekins July 2nd, 2009 post

Of course I couldn’t leave well enough alone and saw there was a newly update 96.43.13 driver.  So… I loaded that up a couple of times and the moment, everything works great except that I get this white screen of death when I load up a terminal session.  Overall performance is pretty good, I have a email in with Nvidia and from what I searched on the net, I think I need some tweak to my xorg.config  so I’m going to put that aside for a moment and see if I can get my sound blaster card working now.

Ok… I got the white screen of death fixed…. See.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7857898#post7857898

Just in stalled emerald… All Good…
Now I’m attempting the cube.

http://maketecheasier.com/make-your-ubuntu-desktop-rotate-as-a-cylindersphere/2008/07/28