Nvidia on Ubuntu 8.04

[Eco13]

I have a really weird problem and no idea what to do.

I downloaded the drivers for my Nvidia graphics card from Nvidia and after about 2 days of reading forums and download a couple of packages, I finally got them to install.

The problem is that although they are installed, their not active.

I have tried reinstalling, with no luck ...

Can anyone please help me with this?

 

[MyWorld]

How do you knot it's not active, what have you tried?

How did you install it? With Ubunut it should be just the click of a button, the Ubuntu crew will soon reply, but give them more information to work with:

How did you install it?
How do you know it is not working?
Version of the drivers you installed?

 

[foozball3000]

I also had issues... but for the life of me I can't remember what they were. One of the MyBB Forumites helped me out.

lol @ "Ubuntu" - an African word meaning "Gentoo is too hard for me".
The above said Forumite said that I shouldn't install/compile Gentoo untill i've mastered all angles of Ubuntu

 

[d0b33]

What card you have?

This is how I install my drivers...
Logout > Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (kdm for kubuntu)

cd /home/*user* (or navigate to directory of driver)

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2.run (replace with your driver)
follow Nvidia instructions carefully

Ctrl-Alt-Del for PC restart or
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart (kdm for kubuntu)

remove old driver optional
--
sudo nvidia-installer --uninstall

 

[Eco13]

How do you knot it's not active, what have you tried?

How did you install it? With Ubunut it should be just the click of a button, the Ubuntu crew will soon reply, but give them more information to work with:

How did you install it?
How do you know it is not working?
Version of the drivers you installed?

I installed it the same way Aqua_lung did.
I know it's not working because when I go to system > Administration > Hardware Drivers it still shows there is no driver for it
and the version I installed was NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg1.run

What card you have?

This is how I install my drivers...
Logout > Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (kdm for kubuntu)

cd /home/*user* (or navigate to directory of driver)

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2.run (replace with your driver)
follow Nvidia instructions carefully

Ctrl-Alt-Del for PC restart or
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart (kdm for kubuntu)

remove old driver optional
--
sudo nvidia-installer --uninstall

Something I have noticed though:
When I go to System > Preferences > NVIDIA X Server Settings, it says I should run nvidia-xconfig from the terminal and restart my X server. When I do so however, X doesn't want to start again. The only way to get Linux to boot then is to replace the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with the one Nvidia backed up the settings in (/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup)

I have a Nvidia GeForce 6200 running in my Linux system.

 

[d0b33]

Something I have noticed though:
When I go to System > Preferences > NVIDIA X Server Settings, it says I should run nvidia-xconfig from the terminal and restart my X server. When I do so however, X doesn't want to start again. The only way to get Linux to boot then is to replace the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with the one Nvidia backed up the settings in (/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup)

I have a Nvidia GeForce 6200 running in my Linux system.

Make sure that if you're running a 64bit version you install the 64 bit driver.

but if you run into x window errors just boot up into recovery mode from grub and choose xfix, then remove the drivers and see if you can do a clean install afterward.

btw the hardware drivers panel is the easy way to install nvidia drivers the drivers you install via console won't show up in their.

 

[Eco13]

I'm sure it's the correct driver.

Can I install the drivers via xfix too?

How do you install drivers via the hardware drivers panel?

 

[d0b33]

I'm sure it's the correct driver.

Can I install the drivers via xfix too?

How do you install drivers via the hardware drivers panel?

xfix just resets your x window settings to default.

Just select the driver you're presented with(must be connected to the internet) then choose activate... then wait for it to finish.

But before you do this uninstall the current drivers and run xfix.

 

[sn3rd]

Can you not just use the open-source driver in the repositories?

Does

glxgears

work ?

 

[Eco13]

I got it going using the Hardware Drivers tab.

Just had to uninstall the 180.51 drivers let it get other drivers from the net. I think something about the new drivers and my system isn't very compatible because when it downloaded new drivers the version was 16....

But it working great now. Thanks for all the help guys!