Gusty & 8800GT?

[themindrecoils]

My problem came back, but I think I've got the steps down now:

1. Install gusty.
2. Install build-essential from disk (didn't work when it got the updated version for whatever reason).
3. Stop gdm.
4. Install driver. When it asks you to auto config, say yes.
5. Start gdm, make sure it worked.
6. Back up xorg.conf.
7. Reboot a couple of times, make sure it still works.
8. Install updates.
9. Reboot.
10. Re-install nvidia driver since it won't work after updates are installed.
11. Restore xorg.conf from step 6.

At least that's what worked for me. We'll see how stable it is, I guess.

[Jabb3r]

thanks for the advice. It'll have to wait till tomoz if I need a reinstall. Sad if I do

[regomodo]

guys, have you ran nvidia-xconfig?

Seriously, installing this driver is easy so long as you have the dependencies (which the nvidia installer will warn you if you don't)

[bruno321]

Yeah, I had... anyway, since I wasn't getting anywhere now I'm reinstalling Kubuntu. When I first installed the drivers I had some dependencies missing (the installation program COULD tell me to check if I have this or that installed, couldn't it?), and I forgot to do kdm stop :$ . Afterwards I installed the dependencies and did a proper reinstall of the drivers, but to no avail. So maybe with a system reinstall and properly installing the driver it will work... dunno. I will inform later. Right now I'm waiting at 83% of "installing linux-generic" which is a reported bug. How boring.

[bruno321]

Okay-- I made it! It was a little bit tricky for the person not used to install nvidia drivers every day. Here's how I got it going:

1) Make a fresh install. Easy for me to say since in my case it's a new system, but I couldn't get it done without making a fresh install.

2) # sudo apt-get install pkg-config xserver-xorg-dev build-essential

3) # sudo apt-get remove linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules

4) a) Now logout and login in text mode
b) sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (kdm stop if using kubuntu)

5) # sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1.run
Follow the instructions. It will have to build the module. At the end say YES, you want it to configure xorg (by default it's no).

You can try # sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start now and see if it loads. In my case, it doesn't. To repair it:

6) # sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video
Comment out the line "install nvidia /sbin/lrm-video nvidia $CMDLINE_OPTS" (i.e. put a # in front of the line)

7) # sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start

That did the trick. I realized that it is advised to uninstall the nvidia-kernel* packages before attempting an nvidia driver installation. I didn't do it. Perhaps if I had done it, steps 6 and 7 wouldn't have been necessary, but I won't touch anything else anymore because it's working just fine

Cheers!

[Jabb3r]

Thanks bruno, will try that now

Edit: M8 your a legend, thank you and I did it with no reinstall too, w00t!

[bruno321]

Hey, glad it helped Perhaps it will also help the original poster.

[Spiffington]

I've been having problems trying to install these drivers. I can only assume it's some simple oversight on my part though, but here it is anyway.

I've downloaded the drivers and theyre sitting on my desktop currently. they are the "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2.run" version. As far as i know i've set everything required up properly - i.e the 'uname -r header thing', made sure the 'pkg-config and xserver-xorg' are installed, made sure any other nvidia drivers are uninstalled and so forth.

so i logout, hit ctrl alt f1 to go into text mode, run the '...gdm stop' command, so far so good. However no matter what i do, when i come to:

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2.run

i just get a simple error returned - "can't open NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2.run"

I read somewhere else i may have to change directory to wherever the file was stored, but i cant actually figure out how that works,,

Anyway help would be appreciated with this since for now im stuck at 800x600.. its not overly nice.

[synthaxx]

Originally Posted by Spiffington i just get a simple error returned - "can't open NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2.run"

First you need to check where you downloaded the program, then go to that directory (using the "cd" command).
You should be able to auto complete the command if the file is in the directory (type in "sudo sh NVI" and then press the [TAB] key).

Then you simply run the same command.

If that doesn't work do (while still in that directory) "sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2.run" and run the install command again.

That said, i've tried these drivers, and can't get them to install. Every time i reboot i just get a black screen crash (no CTRL+ALT+DEL, a real crash) and the Xorg.0.log looks like it just booted without a problem... really strange.

I will try the above steps again on a fresh Gutsy to see if it helps.

[Spiffington]

Thanks for the help. Ill get a chance to try some of that tomorrow.. after this exam on human rights..

Regarding the CD command, how do you form it? Ive tried:

cd home/myname/desktop

for example, but it produces an error.

Also what is the default directory it will be looking in if i simply type:

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2.run

?