HowTo: NViDIA 185.18 Drivers in Ubuntu

[ibuclaw]

I had removed the update script so that I would stop getting the error message, but reinstalled it exactly as before to get the output. It still behaves the same.

OK, everything is fine there...

Perhaps it is the location the NVIDIA-Installer that is the issue here.
Post the output of:

ls -l /usr/src

and make note of the colours you see the output in.
Regards
Iain

[NRDNick]

Thought I would add that in the latest build of karmic, to stop gdm the command is now "sudo gdm-stop"
Also the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" did not change my xorg.conf file at all, not sure if this is another Karmic irregularity. I basically just edited my xorg.conf file and changed the driver manually to "vesa"

Hope that helps

Oh and thank you very much for the concise howto my friend.

[ibuclaw]

Thought I would add that in the latest build of karmic, to stop gdm the command is now "sudo gdm-stop"
Also the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" did not change my xorg.conf file at all, not sure if this is another Karmic irregularity. I basically just edited my xorg.conf file and changed the driver manually to "vesa"

Hope that helps

Oh and thank you very much for the concise howto my friend.

When karmic becomes the norm, I will change it accordingly.

[secUnd3r]

secund3r@secund3r-sXPS13:~$ ls -l /usr/src
total 22348
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root     4096 2009-09-13 21:10 linux-headers-2.6.28-15
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root     4096 2009-09-13 21:10 linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root src        36 2009-09-10 17:28 nvidia-driver -> /usr/src/NVIDIA-Linux-190.32.pkg.run
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root src  22876157 2009-09-10 17:27 NVIDIA-Linux-190.32.pkg.run

[ibuclaw]

secund3r@secund3r-sXPS13:~$ ls -l /usr/src
total 22348
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root     4096 2009-09-13 21:10 linux-headers-2.6.28-15
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root     4096 2009-09-13 21:10 linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root src        36 2009-09-10 17:28 nvidia-driver -> /usr/src/NVIDIA-Linux-190.32.pkg.run
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root src  22876157 2009-09-10 17:27 NVIDIA-Linux-190.32.pkg.run

Hmm ... everything seems fine. There is no reason for you to get that error.

And when you run:

sudo /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-nvidia 2.6.28-15-generic

What happens?

If all seems fine:

sudo apt-get install -f

Will finish the installation of the kernel update.

Regards
Iain

[wojox]

Thanks Iain. Worked out great. Using: [Quadro FX 330/GeForce PCX 5300]

Upgrading to 173.14.20

[tarmstrong711]

I followed the guide for my system with two 8800GTS cards and Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit.

After installing NViDIA drivers and rebooting it will not pass the following screen:

* Starting network connection manager NetworkManager ............... [ OK ]
* Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon ................... [ OK ]
* Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd ...............................[ OK ]
* PulseAudio configured for pre-user sessions
saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned
* Starting System Tools Backends system-tools-backends .................[ OK ]
* Starting anac(h)ronistic cron anacron ........................................... [ OK ]
* Starting deferred execution scheduler atd ......................................[ OK ]
* Starting periodic command scheduler crond ...................................[ OK ]
* Enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support ........[ OK ]
* Checking battery state...
/dev/sdb:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
.................................................. .................................................. .[ OK ]
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Note:
I previously had Linux Mint 7 Gloria installed and used the NViDIA 180 driver from the 'Hardware Drivers' utility with no issues. After switching to Ubuntu Jaunty, I had the same issue as above using the 180 driver from the 'Hardware Drivers' utility.
I also tried the optional steps: sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nv
gksudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
And adding line: DISABLED_MODULES="nv nvidia_new"

[ibuclaw]

I followed the guide for my system with two 8800GTS cards and Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit.

Here:

(!!) More than one possible primary device found
(--) PCI: (0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] rev 162, Mem @ 0xec000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xea000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000df00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
(--) PCI: (0@4:0:0) nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] rev 162, Mem @ 0xe8000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xe6000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000af00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072

Since you have a dual-card setup, you need to specify which PCI card you want to control the main screen.

How to do this is in the Setting up Twin Cards section of the guide.

open /etc/X11/xorg.conf

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Locate this section:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

And add the following that is bold to the section:

Section "Device"
    BUSID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

and reboot.

Regards
Iain

[bp_ballistic]

Thanks Iain! I was having problems trying to get a dual monitor setup working with Ubuntu 9.04. Even after trying to manually update to Nvidia's newest drivers whenever I would try to enable Visual Effects I would get a message that said, "Desktop effects could not be enabled". Also, in xorg.conf I would get "Failed to load module glx (loader failed, 7)". I think the latter was due to some links not being correctly setup when I tried to update the Nvidia driver. However, following your post fixed everything and I'm very happy to have it all running now! Just thought I'd post a little in case anyone else is having similar problems. I spent a lot of time searching for a fix and wish I would have found this sooner. Thanks again!

Ubuntu 9.04
GNOME
AWN
EVGA GeForce GTX 260 (216)

[tarmstrong711]

Here:

(!!) More than one possible primary device found
(--) PCI: (0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] rev 162, Mem @ 0xec000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xea000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000df00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
(--) PCI: (0@4:0:0) nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] rev 162, Mem @ 0xe8000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xe6000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000af00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072

Since you have a dual-card setup, you need to specify which PCI card you want to control the main screen.

How to do this is in the Setting up Twin Cards section of the guide.

open /etc/X11/xorg.conf

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Locate this section:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

And add the following that is bold to the section:

Section "Device"
    BUSID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

and reboot.

Regards
Iain

Thanks Iain for the help, it seemed to fix the issue.
I have a concern though:

When I boot up, after the Ubuntu boot loading screen, the signal to the monitor turns off for a second then comes back and goes to the screen with:

* Starting network connection manager NetworkManager ............... [ OK ]
* Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon ................... [ OK ]
* Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd ...............................[ OK ]
* PulseAudio configured for pre-user sessions
saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned
* Starting System Tools Backends system-tools-backends .................[ OK ]
* Starting anac(h)ronistic cron anacron ........................................... [ OK ]
* Starting deferred execution scheduler atd ......................................[ OK ]
* Starting periodic command scheduler crond ...................................[ OK ]
* Enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support ........[ OK ]
* Checking battery state...
/dev/sdb:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)

Then the signal gets cutout again for a second before it goes to the 'GDM Login Screen'.
The other issue is that I noticed my FPS have lowed in 'Planet Penguin Racer'. When I was running Mint 7 with the NViDIA 180 driver from the 'Hardware Drivers' I was averaging around 1000-1100 FPS. Now with the 64Bit 185.18 NViDIA driver I seem to only average about 200-400 FPS. What would account for this? 64Bit driver? Not running in SLI (never changed any settings, just default in both cases, so not sure if SLI was enabled).? new drivers?

How could I get back the FPS I once had?

Thanks,
Tim