[SOLVED] Help: Can't install nvidia driver in 8.10

**Son of William** · January 2nd, 2009

Worked like a charm. Thanks GTA.

I had a devil of a time implementing it, however, because I had been trying to install different flavors of nvidia drivers prior to reading this thread.

Anyone else with the same problem should make sure they have fully eradicated all other nvidia drivers from their installation first. Then modify the grub menu.lst, and only then install the proprietary nvidia driver.

**trainerbill** · January 23rd, 2009

U the man... Many thanks

**tedgoat** · February 5th, 2009

Thanks for the good work, 67GTA!

I'd been fiddling with this for a couple of days before stumbling upon this thread about the in compatibility of the cx18and the nvidia driver. That's I get when I install a new card and upgrade the OS at the same time...

Now all is well, again.

**dodongo** · April 19th, 2009

Phew. Great catch -- this fix works like a charm. Thanks, though it's been a long time since I"ve had to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst!

Am I correct in thinking that the solution for this in perpetuity is changing the following to include the vmalloc parameter?

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## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash vmalloc=256M

**67GTA** · April 19th, 2009

That may do the same thing. I have never tried that before. I always add boot options to the end of the kernel line. Try it out to see if it boots with that option where you have it written and let us know.

**dodongo** · April 19th, 2009

Originally Posted by 67GTA

That may do the same thing. I have never tried that before. I always add boot options to the end of the kernel line. Try it out to see if it boots with that option where you have it written and let us know.

We'll need to wait for a new kernel to be distributed before we know for sure. That part of the file is where the defaults for the automagically-added boot options go, but I don't believe it affects kernels that are already there.

I *hope* that does the trick. Will try to remember to check after a new kernel release.

**jumping_snake** · January 7th, 2010

Since GRUB2 had been adopted into 9.10, here's the way to get the kernel boot command to run everytime:

Startup your system and either get to a console from the GRUB menu or boot to Ubuntu in low graphics mode and open a terminal once it's up.

Once up, type the following command

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sudo pico /etc/default/grub

Once inside of the file, search for this line

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

right before the last ", put vmalloc=256M, so that the line looks like:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash vmalloc=256M"

Then, hit CTRL+O and ENTER, and then CTRL+X. This will bring you back to the terminal. At this point, we need the startup system to reconfigure itself, so we type the following command

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