[ubuntu-za] nvidia graphics

[William Walter Kinghorn]

Hi

Don't know if this will work, I have intel chipset here at work

At home I have a nvidia card ( not the latest ), I installed Ubuntu 9.10 from scratch ( I recently bought a 1 TB drive ), I ran Hardware Drivers, I activated the suggested driver ( I think the 180 ), and it works perfectly

you can try

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nv

the description for xserver-xorg-video-nv in the repos
"This driver for the X.Org X server (see xserver-xorg for a further description)
provides support for NVIDIA Riva, TNT, GeForce, and Quadro cards."

if that does not work then try installing  the nvidia 173 or 180 or possibly the 71 drivers from the repos

you might need to enable the restricted repo, if not enabled already

William
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From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of miles sharpe [msdomdonner at gmail.com]
Sent: 04 November 2009 10:10
To: deon.spengler at gmail.com; Ubuntu South African Local Community
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] nvidia graphics

>  done this yet for the TNT2. Here is the link for the legacy drivers from nvidia's site.
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_71.86.11.html
>
> These drivers are for 32-bit Linux. I will attempted to help you install these drivers but I need to highlight some problems
> that you will most likely run into sometime down the line.
>
> 1.) You will have to reinstall the driver after kernel updates.
> 2.) You will have to reinstall the drivers if you do a dist-upgrade.
>
> Ok now that you know what the risks are here is what you can do.
>
> 1.) download the driver and make it exacutable
> 2.) press Ctrl+Alt+F1, then login
> 3.) now we will install needed software with the following "sudo apt-get install build-essential"
> 4.) after the above command completes type the following "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop"
> 5.) navigate to where you downloaded the driver to
> 6.) now type the following "sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.11.pkg1.run
> 7.) follow the on screen instructions, you will to a point where the installer will ask you if it should try and
> build the drivers for you (or something along those lines) answer yes to this.
> 8.) now the drivers should be installed, now type the following "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start"
>
> That should be it and you should be back to a graphical desktop.
>
> If you have any more question or need further help, just ask and I will try and help.
>
> Regards
>
> Deon
>
>
> Hi Deon. I am using 9.04.
I am very happy with it except for this graphics thing.
I have already used synaptic to get nvidia 96
Must I first go and remove them before I try your commands.
I only have 623 ram according to ubuntu so I am scared to get 9.10 and
sit with more problems. I am disabled so there is no cash for extras.
Must make do with what I was given.
But I would like to say thanks alot to all the list people that have
helped me so far and hope to improve my knowlege of this great os.


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