The os loading screen looks fine but in the os at user password prompt the screen is mainly yellow with squares

[Darryl Clarke]

On 5/16/06, Peter H <poida_00 at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> The os loading screen looks fine but in the os at user password prompt the
> screen is mainly yellow with squares. So i asked a friend about this and he
> said to use the linux geforce 6600 video drivers from nvidia.com, He then
> told me when I get to that screen press ctrl alt – F1 and load the drivers.
>
> From then on I figured out how to find the driver from the cd and load it by
> typing (sudo sh nvidia-linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run)
>
> The file loads a setup but gets stuck on cannot find (binutils) so I look
> around ubuntu.com and found binutils 2.16.1 file but I cant figure out where
> it needs to be for the nvidia pkg1.run to see it to continue setup.


There is already a Ubuntu package for this nVidia driver.

It is found in the 'Restricted' repository, as it is not proper open source.

You can install it by instalilng the package 'nvidia-glx'

And enable it by 'sudo nvidia-glx-config enable'

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