Installation of the nvidia drivers

[Zuajiu]

Hello,

So before someone sends me to a linked page (I hope you can send me the right one), I have searched on the internet for hours, and alot on this site.

So I have this problem with my laptop.

i have jsut installed ubuntu Intrepid (8.10), really great, lots of nice stuff,
but then i trry to install those damned nvidia drivers.

So I got the problem where it sais :
Fatal server error:
No screens found
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to conenct to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

So then since I was quite new to linux, i didn't bother very long and jsut reinstalled.
The second time I did exactly the same thing then installed 32 bit, to see i i could get it working with that.
Well no suck luck,
I've been burning lines of commands into my head, trying and trying to get it working (I guess that's a good thing no?).
I've tried this link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1054842

No deal.
I would guess that it's because I'm running on a Hybrid SLI Nvidia, (9200m GS dedicated, 9400M G motherboard). Whcih came out quite recently.
Do you think i should just give up o installing the driver, I think I tried everything.
Should i jsut reinstall and wait for a new driver to come out?

Thanks for any help or advice that can be given

[Ripose]

Your card is on the supported hardware list.

GPU: GeForce 9200M GS Device PCI ID: 0x06E8

Have you tried starting in Safe Mode and installing Linux-Restricted-Drivers?
Then in Hardware activate Nvidia 177.

[Zuajiu]

Well the problem is that even in safe mode, the GUI doesn't load,
when i try to launch the x server it just gives the same error as above,
so I tried resetting the xorg.conf file, then I opened it to check what was in it, and there.. well nothing, I mean there is nothing else written but
basic phrase like "Configured Video Devive" or "configured Monitor", is this normal?

[Ripose]

Yes, that's normal for xorg.conf open the the xorg.conf.######### to see what is set, it may shoe a couple of different settings such as Driver Vesa
If it does show anything different try entering them into the xorg.conf

I am currently trying to fix a very similar problem, I'll let you know how it goes.

[Zuajiu]

Sorry Ripose, i didn't get the xorg.conf.###### thing you told me, what am i supposed to do? (Still learning how linux works, sorry)

[Zuajiu]

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[jimv]

I'm assuming you have internet access from the command line, so try this:

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...80.22-pkg1.run
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.22-pkg1.run

Follow through the instructions and reboot.