cant activate nvidia driver

[SurferGTO]

After updating to 9.10 (regreeetttttt) i cant activate my nvidia driver in syste>admin>hardware drivers. it tells me installation failed, and tells me to look at jockey.log but i have no idea what im looking at in there or what any of that means.

[SurferGTO]

bump, ive searched and so far as far as ive found no workarounds are helping... anyone have any suggestions? even a redirect i could care less, but i cant find anything that is helping me activate my graphics card.

[darkod]

Have you tried EnvyNG package? Really good package for handling video drivers, both ATI and Nvidia. Might help. Helped me for my HD3200.

[SurferGTO]

yes i tried EnvyNG but i cant seem to get the prog to run. it shows that its installed, and perhaps im not using it correctly, but i click the appl in system tools folder, and it asks for a password for admin priv... then the dialog box dissapears and nothing seems to happen...

[darkod]

it can be run in text mode with
envyng -t

Try it in terminal. Don't know if you need sudo, you might as well try.

PS. Just in case it didn't install correctly in terminal it can be installed with
sudo apt-get install envyng-core envyng-qt

[SurferGTO]

it loads in terminal, and i can uninstall the nvidia driver, but upon attempting to install the following error message occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "interface.py", line 432, in <module>
a.mainMenu()
File "interface.py", line 295, in mainMenu
a.driverMenu('nvidia')
File "interface.py", line 322, in driverMenu
self.driverPage(driver)
File "interface.py", line 216, in driverPage
candidateLen.append(len(details['candidate']))
TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

and it returns to the terminal prompt

[darkod]

Sorry, no idea. It worked for me even without deinstalling the older driver.

[SurferGTO]

after uninstalling (successfully) the ATI driver, and attempting to install that. i get this message:

+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Error: |
| |
| EnvyNG has detected that the headers for |
| your kernel are missing and cannot be installed |
| |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

i know some people were having issues with their kernel, either not updating or what have you but as far as i could tell mine was up to date.. whats the code to check the kernel again? ill post that output as well...

[SurferGTO]

2.6.27-14-generic

[darkod]

You said you upgraded to 9.10, shouldn't that be kernel 2.6.31? Maybe that's your problem?
Sorry but personally I don't know the answer, that's why only a question/idea.