HOWTO: Install the Nvidia driver on Feisty Fawn

[tseliot]

Hi, I've ported my guide about the Nvidia Drivers to Edgy Eft on the USDF.
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_nvidia_feisty

OR try this mirror:

http://www.albertomilone.com/latest_...sf_feisty.html


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Application to make Method 2 faster

You can use Envy which you can find below (for automating Method 2 and solving problems of driver mismatch)

NOTE: Envy is a 3rd party application and you should use it at your risk

My application will download the ATI/Nvidia installer (and all the files the installer needs), build the packages you need and set the driver for you.

Get to the following website:
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

And follow the instructions you will find there.

[dabl]

GREAT to hear this!

Does it work on 64-bit?

Thanks for doing this!

[tommcd]

tseliot, 2 questions:
1) What about this way from the wiki:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bi...t=%28nvidia%29
It says system>administration>Restricted Devices Manager is now the 'recomended way'. Is that true?
2) When you install nvidia-glx-new in synaptic it says the command to enable the driver is now "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable". What is the difference between that and "sudo nvidia-xconfig", and what does the "--no-composite" switch do?

[solarjeep]

This (Envy) works. I just did a clean install of Feisty for the first time on one of my secondary boxes. I used the Envy package and it was flawless. Using an nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP.
I'll update later if I run into any issues related to this method.

Nice job!

[Rictus]

Does this work for the 8800 series too?

[John Azelvandre]

I just downloaded and ran Envy, and it seemed to work, but I'm still not getting the hi-res my card is capable of. But now direct rendering returns 'yes' whereas before it returned 'no.' Which I think is a good thing.

I have: PCI Express nvidia GeForce Go 6600.

What do I try now? This card is capable of doing something like 1680x1050

[John Azelvandre]

I got my card to work. I guess Envy didn't quite do it in my case. Fortunately, I had the old xorg.conf file from the previous vendor install handy, and I copied the relevant parts of it to get my card to work up to spec. Here's what I needed to put in for my card:

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
#	Option     "TwinView" "On"
#	Option     "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
#	Option     "MetaModes" "CRT-0: 1680x1050, DFP-0: 1680x1050"
#	Option     "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, DFP"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Not really sure what this does, but it worked.

[hessiess]

i need to get the graphics drivers for a geforce go 7600 in ubuntu with no internet conection

the link dosant work, just infanatly loads

[dnzz]

Ok i installed the driver but I can NOT even play KAsteroids. Drivers are very slow.


I have Geforce 6200 go

Things i have tried:
1-Installing nvidia-glx-new, nvidia-glx-config enable, nvidia-xconfig
2-Installing drivers from www.nvidia.com
3-This guide...
4-Using "nv" drivers (Hopelessly)


Any ideas?

[Gang_Star]

Wow! Amazing...

That's such a well written guide. Even a noob such as myself has no problem following it, it's done from the terminal to minimize error, and best of all it worked. Thanks!

I have what I have found to be not the easiest setup to get drivers running for but this was a synch. My working setup:
Geforce 6200 TurboCache
Kubuntu Feisty 7.04 (64 Version)