I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 on DELL XPS L501 - Nvidia GeForce GT 420M.
I'm using kernel 3.9.0-030900-generic
.
All kernel-headers are installed in the system.
and
I've tried the following.
- Use apt-get to install
nvidia-current
(which download 304) && load usingmodprobe
- Use apt-get to install
nvidia-310
&& load usingmodprobe
- Download nvidia 64-bit driver
nvidia-319.23
for 400M series and install - Use swat-x repo to install nvidia driver
All of these failed. And I tested it everytime like this
- After the module is loaded (checked from
lsmod
), - restarted lightdm
- tested from get.webgl.org
- (Google-Chrome webgl support is enabled)
Problem faced with nvidia-xconfig
- after running
nvidia-xconfig
(which writes to/etc/X11/xorg.conf
), and restartinglightdm
, my display res changes to640x480
. - and had to remove this file to revert back to old setting
- Have also tried commenting out those two lines which adjusts
Horizontal and Vertical Setting
inxorg.conf
. That just rectified the resolution. But still I wasn't able to use the graphics card (webgl).
EDIT 1: (nouveau)
- Tried rebooting after each installation
- Removed (purge) all of nouveau* before starting.
- Removed one more package (dont remember the exact name though) - xorg-xserver-blah-blah.
EDIT 2: (bitlbee)
- I had
bitlbee
installed before. Removed that too before starting installation. - When bitlbee was present,
NVIDIA-3.9-x86.run
(downloaded from nvidia) was not able to recognize graphics card. But it did when I removedbitlbee
. (So I'm assuming here that it should work if graphics driver was installed properly)
EDIT 3: (software-properties-gtk)
- sudo software-properties-gtk
- the Additional drivers tab is always NIL. (before and after installation) (even if the installation was successful)
Have been trying this the whole day, and done it quite a few times. None of them worked.
Need help! Is it the problem with kernel-3.9, that there are no updates for this ?