ubuntu nvidia help

[McBunny]

just installed ubuntu great
trying to install nvidia drivers not so good it no work

change session to failsafe terminal login su -
then navigate to where the .run file is
i type sh then the filename and it says not found what am i doing wrong ??

 

[Final Maxim]

ide like to try ubuntu but apparantly compatability issues are crazy?

 

[McBunny]

god knows i have fallen over at the first step lol

 

[Final Maxim]

what graphics card isit btw

 

[McBunny]

its a quadro of sum sort

 

[JoelDee]

Theres a beginners magazine you can buy and it tells you how to set it up properley step by step

 

[Final Maxim]

7600? 7800? 8600? 8800?

 

[McBunny]

hmm maybe another time i can get the magazine. im just messing around waiting for a call back with an activation code for some of our software so thought id give it a go

 

[McBunny]

no its a quadro not a geforce and i dunno the series of quadro forgot to check before i flatened the box lol

 

[ViolentJ]

http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

Direct download - http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.5-0ubuntu5_all.deb

Either save to desktop and double click to start the install or choose to open with Gdebi.

Once installed the program is in Applications -> System Tools -> Envy

All you have to do is choose "Install The NVIDIA Driver" and click apply, it will do it all for you.

 

[McBunny]

fingers crossed beryl works after this

 

[KDF]

just installed ubuntu great
trying to install nvidia drivers not so good it no work

change session to failsafe terminal login su -
then navigate to where the .run file is
i type sh then the filename and it says not found what am i doing wrong ??

Dont even need to go to the nvidia site !

Click

System/Administration/Restricted Drivers Manager

Tick the box that says Nvidia, click ok


Your done.. Also, just use apt-get to install beryl.

 

[McBunny]

oh im just too used to windows

 

[KDF]

Beryl is sheer awesomeness btw.. puts vista's poor attempt to shame !

 

[McBunny]

cool i hope so
i really should get into linux but not having a pc at home still hampers me a little

 

[Rob Clark]

prob got the filename wrong as post #1 poss capitalised nix cares about that unlike the mr Gates offerings
tip. sh [then press 1st letter of script] and then tab will autocomplete it

edit: ubuntu is a great distro for nix n00bs. had a fair few attempts with fedora / rh amongst others but instantly took to ubuntu

 

[McBunny]

yeah thats the thing i have been using dos/windows daily since some time in 91 so i now only know windows once i went graphical i got lazy lol

 

[Final Maxim]

so hows ubuntu then?

i really am tempted to try it, only thing putting me off is that i have no idea how it works, what the layouts like, whether my hardwares compatable, whether its buggy, etc etc

 

[McBunny]

erm now broken lol

 

[KDF]

Try the live CD, wont touch your windows OS (or your hard drive for that matter) but will give you a fully working desktop. It will run a little slow compared to if you installed it (after all it is running from a CD !)

 

[KDF]

erm now broken lol

in what way ?

 

[McBunny]

as in blue screen !

god damn bills influence reaches everywhere

 

[KDF]

eh ? blue screen ? linux dont do blue

 

[cli0 172]

Linux is the way forward

 

[McBunny]

blue screen with a box made from hyroglyphics

saying
failed to start the x server (your graphical interface) it is likely that its not set up correctly. would you like to view the x server output to diagnose the problem

 

[Rob Clark]

reboot but open the grub menu and select a kernel with repair option iirc and boot to a cmd prompt. then issue
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
That opens up a config box which asks you to reenter gfx card setting which will get you a gui back

 

[KDF]

its trying to load the nvidia drivers but cant find them at best guess.

okay do it the harder way. Download the nvidia drivers from their website and remember where you saved the file. now do the following

ctrl+alt+F1 and log in using your account. Im going to assume you saved the file to your desktop (if you saved it somewhere else you will need to change the commands below)

if your stuck in a console and cant get the nvidia drivers use this command ! This will get you the x86 driver (let me know if thats the wrong for your archtecture ?) Copy the WHOLE of below not just the first line !

cd ~/Desktop/ && wget 
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run

Stop X11

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

now lets make the nvidia installer executable.

chmod +x ~/Desktop/NVIDIA*.run

install a few things to build the kernel driver

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

install the nvidia driver

sudo sh ~/Desktop/NVIDIA*.run

and follow the onscreen instructions. If you need to you can then restart X with the

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

command.

 

[Rob Clark]

btw good forum for ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php

 

[McBunny]

hmm neither works for me kdf yours stops at the chmod bit

 

[McBunny]

reinstall time:dapprove:

 

[KDF]

Dont need to re-install just for an nvidia driver lol

did you save the Nvidia file to your desktop like I told ya.. bet thats your problem

 

[McBunny]

it was in the level below so /home/mike i can rememeber enough dos to alter file paths


its reinstalled now anyway

 

[KDF]

If you get completly stuck PM me, I would SSH into the box and set it all up for you. I've done it for someone on here before... think it was ViolentJ back when he as a young padewan (was it you ?).

He's a linux master now !

 

[KDF]

it was in the level below so /home/mike i can rememeber enough dos to alter file paths


its reinstalled now anyway

Ok Cool. you should have also removed the ~ sign as the ~ sign in linux is your home directory ! in your case if you typed

cd ~

it would take you to /home/mike/

(in actual fact if you just type "cd" it also takes you to your home folder but I dont think thats consistent across all linux distro's)

 

[McBunny]

you could ssh into the box if i was at home but there is no chance your coming through my firewall here

 

[McBunny]

you any good with cisco ? i should be ordering my new firewall soon and i have very little experience of cisco stuff

 

[KDF]

Not so hot with cisco stuff... sorry.

 

[McBunny]

meh
will just have to pay some one 500+ a day to do it then lol

 

[ViolentJ]

If you're blue screening it will be an issue with your xorg. As you're trying to install the nvidia driver, most likely the problem is with the device section. It should actually give you the option to view what the problem is.

If you need to edit your xorg from a command prompt then use:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

CTRL O will save your changes and CTRL X will exit out, then type startx to try and load the x server again.

If the driver hasn't installed properly it might have changed the driver in xorg to nvidia which will be why it's crapping out, so change it to vesa or nv.

That way you can get back into a GUI.

The envy script I posted should install the driver for you hassle free though.