Ubuntu 8.04:installing nvisia drivers?

I used that program envy to install driver and that seemed to work fine for me :)
 
Not to sure what you have done wrong there, it mostly looks right, what I suggest is try change

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

to

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nv"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

That should load up the default driver, if not... well here are the instructions on how to install nvidia drivers.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
 
Envy worked perfectly:D
anyone having problems installing\upgrading the NVidia or ATI drivers should use ENVY:cool:
 
Envy doesn't work for meb get error /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
 
Im sorry just had enough. I struggled like more than 4 hours and all I achieved was sweet nothing. Still no working nvidia drivers. Christ this just put me right off k/ubuntu forever until they fix this kind of thing to make it easy! Jesus you need to be a rocket scientist to get it working.!
 
All i do is type in sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-new, wait for it to install and then activate it with restricted drivers manager. Voila. Obviously you need to find out which nvidia driver you need. il post the link when im at a pc.
 
cavedog said:
Im sorry just had enough. I struggled like more than 4 hours and all I achieved was sweet nothing. Still no working nvidia drivers. Christ this just put me right off k/ubuntu forever until they fix this kind of thing to make it easy! Jesus you need to be a rocket scientist to get it working.!
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I hear you:(
 
I installed ubuntu on two computers without any issues with the nvidia drivers.
I also did three Windows to Linux conversions with barely any convincing needed- they were all tired of eating M$ crap.
 
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