nvidia 425m driver for ubuntu 10.10

Hello all,

It is been a great problem finding the drivers in ubuntu for my new Vpcf1 notebook. which has 425m nvidia card. Initially the mouse was not working then i went on to do some work on grub and now the touch pad is working but it is definitely not as smooth as in windows.

Can some one please tell me how to install geforce 425m video driver for ubuntu 10.10 I am greatly a linux user and working in windows is really boring. Any other way to make the touch pad work smoothly?

Thanks
Vin

 

The 425M is only officially supported from the latest 260.19.12 release onward, and it doesn't look like Ubuntu's repositories have any 260 release at all yet.

I started writing instructions for how to install the NVIDIA driver manually, and got a bit carried away because none of the guides I've seen are particularly good. So I made a separate post:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/linux-compatibility-software/526822-manual-installation-instructions-proprietary-nvidia-binary-blob-driver.html#post6808714

For the touchpad, try using the gsynaptics package, which will give you touchpad ("pointing devices") settings under the system->preferences menu.

 

@ALLurGroceries I appreciate your walkthrough but unfortunately the driver doesn't work. The systems hangs up after sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start. when i reboot then the system just displays a violet screen and freezes up there. So i had to get into the recovery mode and remove the xorg.conf file install the nouveau and restart the gdm to get back to old 800*600 state.

I find the same thing happening when ubuntu 10.10 automatically detects the proprietary drivers and installs the nvidia automatically.

Any other help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

I'm not sure why your system would hang up, did you get any error messages from the installer? If you look at /var/log/nvidia-installer.log do you see anything with a warning or error?

Edit: There are a number of threads on nvnews forums about this latest release breaking on 10.10, but the place to start is your installer and xorg logs.

 

I have attached the log file as text document. I do find some errors but sorry I am not that knowledgeable about the messages.

 

Your log has some warnings, but nothing that's a real error.

You aren't alone though, I just found this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/655078

I'll try to dig up some more stuff at some point, I'm still reading through that.

Edit: I know I said that your card isn't supported in previous releases, but that's just according to the release notes. It's worth trying these, since at the very end of that bug report thread somebody says it works (although they don't specify whether they're on the same GPU):
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/256.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53.run

You can use my guide and just substitute that URL and version number. I'm not sure if it's going to work. This may be some sort of lower level problem with ACPI/BIOS or a bug in the NVIDIA driver, I will keep my eye out for any more info.

 

Amazing work Appreciate it. I got my nvidia card working!.

A few more questions I am not able to dim my display even through power setting is there a work around for this?

Is there a way to automatically configure the backlit keyboard when the room is dark?

Thanks

 

Did you use the old or the new driver?

 

I used the http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8..._64-256.53.run. Well though for a no have situation this driver suites well after some good usage I find that during a compilation or installation the system becomes slow the graphical interface produces heavy lag thats pretty sad specially when we expect the quad machine to race away.

But on the whole its good for now. Atleast we can work in nice 1080p resolution.

 

Hi magnetpest2k7

I am wondering if you could tell me how did you fixed your touchpad problem

a million thanks in advance

 

Isn't the nvidia 425m Optimus?

 

I remember reading on a different site about getting proprietary drivers working, there was a link to a .deb file for 256.53 that I installed from.

For some reason it needed nvidia-common nvidia-current nvidia-current-modaliases nvidia-settings installed.

Whenever I tried to update it would break, not allowing me to load X.

I found after doing a sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia* I could install from the official binaries with no problems.