FX8600 issue with KDE4

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Hi all. Im trying to get my FX8600 graphics card to work with compiz and other display extensions but when Ive installed lastest 180.x drivers from official nvidia site I got error message using:

Driver “nvidia”

When I use:

Driver “nv”

all is fine but I dont know why Im unable to use “nvidia” driver with my card. Thanks for reply.

P.S I`m running 11.1 stable

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The error message is the following

…
() NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (–) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using HW cursor
() NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(==) NVIDIA(0): Video key set to default value of 0x101fe
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/modules.dep: No such file or directory
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: “nvidia”
(II) UnloadModule: “wfb”
(II) UnloadModule: “fb”
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

    Fatal server error:
    no screens found
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So noone can advice on this issue?

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Thanks for all (or nothing), Issue is solved. Please close this thread.

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Hi
Could you confirm how the issue was fixed? I am facing similar problems here.
Thanx,

AG