nividia drivers

[johanb]

Gary,

Go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html , choose the 32-bit or 
64-bit version. Download the driver. For how-to-install, go to 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_185.18.14.html   , in 
case of 32-bit-version

greetz,
Johan


Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:27 AM, <boeckx.johan at telenet.be 
> <mailto:boeckx.johan at telenet.be>> wrote:
>
>     Gary,
>
>     Fix the Driver-part in the Device section (look in backup-config
>     in /etc/xorg/... or install the drivers manually from the nvidia-site.
>
>     Greetz,
>     Johan
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>     : Gary Kirkpatrick [mailto:pegngary at gmail.com
>     <mailto:pegngary at gmail.com>]
>     >Verzonden
>     : donderdag
>     , juni
>      11, 2009 03:01 PM
>     >Aan
>     : 'Ubuntu user technical support,       not for general discussions'
>     >Onderwerp
>     : nividia drivers
>     >
>     >When I try to run "System/Admin/Xserver settings I get "You do
>     not appear to
>     >be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration
>     file (just
>     >run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server. "
>     >
>     >When I follow the instructions I get:
>     >
>     > sudo nvidia-xconfig
>     >
>     >Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
>     >
>     >VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>     >                  Device section "Configured Video Device" must
>     have a
>     >Driver
>     >                  line.
>     >
>     >Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
>     >New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
>     >
>     >Don't know what to do next.   What brought all this about is the
>     mediocre
>     >font and scree resolutions.
>     >
>     >Thanks for any help.
>     >Gary
>     >
>
>
>
> I'd tried from the Nvidia website but I have to figure out what 
> product I have (automated search not supporting Linux) and as I do not 
> know how to do that, i was hoping for an easy fix.   Fixing driver  in 
> device section is also something i do not  know how to do.  I'll try 
> to figure all this out get back if I can't.
>
> thanks
>
> gary
>