Ubuntu on Asus A8Js

Im trying out Ubuntu on my Asus A8Js

How do I install the drivers for my GeForce 7700

I read the support list and it says it doesnt support this card.

Help

 

The card should work if you install the nvidia-glx-new package. I assume that you're trying to install Feisty, AKA 7.04

 

I have no idea what is Feisty or AKA 7.04

 

Feisty is the current stable edition of Ubuntu.

What Pita is saying is right. Everything on that notebook should be supported out of the box without issue.

 

well......ive installed ubuntu 7.04 but the graphic card driver isnt supported
how do i install the driver?

 

You should install/enable nVidia drivers on ubuntu 7.04 by

Go to System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager and enable the nvidia driver.

 

i enable it
the i get a confirmation asking are u sure? i select yes and then it disables again

 

you have to restart the computer to get it to use the drivers

 

Restarting X should do it. Cntrl+Alt+Backspace

 

If restarting X does not work, then reboot.

There are definitely situations where restarting X is not enough. Last time I used fglrx on my laptop (a while ago), going from the Xorg ati driver to fglrx required only that I restart X but going from fglrx to ati required a reboot because the fglrx driver would leave the video card in a state that the ati driver did not like at all!

 

Im new to linux so bear with my noob questions

what do you mean by restart X and how do I do it?

 

Very true. The reason why is so is because "restarting X" may just be doing nothing - you have to tick the option to restartX in the Login Window menu of Ubuntu to actually killX + restart instead of just getting a login window.

 

OK cheers got the driver working

but still i cant set the resolution to more than 1024 into 768
i want to set it to my native resolution

 

Here is ubunto guide you can use it for info setup nvidia drivers you can use utils to set you wide screen res

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_setup_nvidia_drivers_in_7.04

 

and yes........also I dont get no sound
i got it once but just on one speaker
i went to the sound setting, didnt do anything, just kept clickin test, then i played a song and now no sound

 

I know that. In a previous post, you said "Restarting X should do it. Cntrl+Alt+Backspace", so you've defined "restarting X" as hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills X, therefore you've defined "restarting X" as "killing X". I'm saying that "restarting X" as you've defined it, that is, hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or "killing X" is sometimes not enough. In some situations, no amount of ticking boxes, killing X, loading and unloading modules does anything. You just need to reboot because the previous drivers left the graphic card in a bad state.

 

what about my question??
i got the sound to working but still cant figure out how to change the resolution

 

See this post:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=2094875&postcount=6

 

cheers got it firgured out thanks

 

Hey guys,

i also have problem with nvidia drivers and i have same ubuntu 7.04 version as mentioned.

when i type

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new

i got error message:

...

(Reading database ... 106792 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-glx-new (from .../nvidia-glx-new_1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-16.29_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-new_1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-16.29_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/nvidia-settings', which is also in package nvidia-settings
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-new_1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-16.29_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

..

any ideas?

-Brash-

E: nevermind, now it works. i used Envy