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Well, if you don't have access to the net, you're pretty much screwed. The nVidia drivers are really easy to install in feisty; simply open the Add/Remove Applications program, search for "nvidia" in "All Applications and Programs," and select the drivers you want. Then do the commands it tells you to, and you'll be good to go. But if you don't have a net connection, you'll still have to download the nvidia drivers from the nVidia website anyway, kill X, then install the drivers by hand.
When i booted the live CD for ubuntu, an icon popped up telling me to install restricted drivers for Nvidia. So i let it do its thing and it seemed to download and untomatically pick the driver and install.
But what driver is it installing?
Whats the difference from me going to Nvidia website and downloading the latest display driver directly from the site. then installing it on my own?
The only real difference is that with the driver that Ubuntu installed, you don't have to go to nvidia's site and download/install the driver manually; Ubuntu automatically does it for you. You also might get a newer driver from the nvidia site (although the nvidia-glx-new package and the driver from the site are now the same), but it won't ever go much beyond that. I would suggest just staying with the current Ubuntu supported driver because it's easier and it's more supported. Unless you have some kind of problem with it that is.
You have to configure X to use the nvidia driver by invoking the following command:
Code:
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable
Otherwise, it won't configure X correctly. It's not a bug; it's the way it was designed. Linux doesn't like to do things to your system that you don't tell it to do. That is changing with some things though. nVidia drivers are still odd though, because they require direct access to the Linux kernel (though they shouldn't need it), and this causes all sorts of problems and dependencies that can crash your system. That's one reason why proprietary drivers are not well regarded in the Linux community; if the nVidia drivers didn't require kernel access, they would probably be easier to install.
Post your xorg.conf file here and we'll tell you whether or not you're configured to use your nvidia drivers. There is a possibility that you are still using the default nv drivers. The file is found in the /etc/X11/ directory.
Am I the only one who seems to have major issues getting NVIDIA drivers installed? Every time I've installed accelerated drivers I've had lockups and graphical corruption upon rebooting.
I haven't yet tried that, but I'm curious as to why it seems to work for so many of you to simply use automatix or other easy installation method.
(I should specify that I've tried this on both Edgy and Feisty, both with the same result.)
In a
previous thread on here it was suggested that perhaps the kernel was too old of a version, but the one included with Feisty is at least as new as the one that was suggested (20.15.generic).
On feisty, all you should have to do is `sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx`, then `sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals` from a terminal, hit ctrl+alt+backspace, and it should just work.
jcq, that link you provided is for a Fedora issue. It shouldn't affect Feisty much.
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
I'll give your method a try. On a related matter, however... Why is it that I can never seem to restart X via ctrl-alt-backspace? Is there some option I have to enable to allow that to work? Every time I've tried it nothing seems to happen.
Im confused. I enabled the restriced drivers in 7.04FF and it looks touse acceleration just fine. do I need to do what you said instead? All I had to do was enable risticed drivers and download some packages, then I was all set.
GLXgears score of 15000, however it dropped to around 7000 after updates.
You are using the nVidia drivers (as the section says Driver "nvidia" rather than Driver "nv"). To get your montior's resolution to work, simply type the resolution in the "Screen" section. I have already done it for you in the quote above.
You shouldn't need to use that command with the final version of Feisty. You did with earlier versions, and I think some of us are still thinking that way since we never really installed the final version of Feisty (rather we just upgraded from the beta).
yeah if its 7.04, simply use the menu and find the restriced drivers icon. click enable, it will download some stuff, and instantly you have 3d acceleration.
Unless it doesn't.
That was the first thing that I tried upon my first clean install of 7.04 and upon rebooting had the lockups and graphical corruption.
Yes, but you have some strange problems. I don't believe that happens to most people. I think the reason is that your card isn't officially supported by the latest nVidia Linux driver, as you can see
here.
i had problem installing driver on with feisty 64. I installed it, then restart laptop, and xserver failed because of different version module than the xorg.conf file use after installing driver.
I manually removed the modules and un mod the nvidia module.
Reinstall the the driver. and worked good.
I use beryl
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
That was the first thing that I tried upon my first clean install of 7.04 and upon rebooting had the lockups and graphical corruption.
