HOWTO: NVIDIA driver with Breezy kernels in Hoary

[sertmann]

no source for the 2.6.12-8 breezy kernel eh?


guess i'll just wait until they come out, should be by the finals release...

[tseliot]

no source for the 2.6.12-8 breezy kernel eh?


guess i'll just wait until they come out, should be by the finals release...

There is the source and you might as well get the kernel tree (source + patches).

Can you post your repositories? Type:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list (use kate or nano if you use KDE or something else)

and post the entire file (copy and paste here)

[flowerHercules]

I had a couple notes to add.

There were 7 things I installed to make this work:

gcc-3.4
gcc-3.4-base
make
libc6-dev
linux-kernel-headers
linux-sources
linux-tree

exporting the CC path did nothing for me, so I just made a sym link like so:

ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-3.4 /usr/bin/cc

That worked great.

I also had a bit of trouble killing with gdm stop, so I just used the command:

killall -9 gdm

and killed the X session the standard way. The problem with stopping gdm was that, for some odd reason, it decided to re-initialize itself. Odd, no worries, though.

Other than those things, great HOWTO. I'm actually a Gentoo noob setting up an Ubuntu machine to migrate someone from Windows to Ubuntu, and so far, it has proven very good. It is a lot easier to use than a lot of distributions and it is very clean. Great choice of Gnome over KDE, IMO, very intuitive.

[tseliot]

Thanks for the information!

[Owdy]

N00b quoestion. Why do i wanna install Nvidia drivers like this if drivers come with breezy package. Whats the differense?

[tseliot]

N00b quoestion. Why do i wanna install Nvidia drivers like this if drivers come with breezy package. Whats the differense?

The title of my guide is HOWTO: NVIDIA driver with Breezy kernels in Hoary. The drivers that come with Breezy can't be installed in Hoary (problems with dependencies). BUT you can have drivers 7667 thanks to my guide.

If you use Breezy there is no need to install 7667 using my guide BUT you can use my guide to install other (and newer) versions of the drivers (I don't recommend 7676 though).

[TakisX]

Tseliot finally made it with nvidia drivers.
I installed breezy 5.10
I did not installed drivers with synaptic
I installed 7174 drivers with your how to and its ok

I compiled the kernel and i installed again 7174 and it works again
Finally everything is ok

[tseliot]

Tseliot finally made it with nvidia drivers.
I installed breezy 5.10
I did not installed drivers with synaptic
I installed 7174 drivers with your how to and its ok

I compiled the kernel and i installed again 7174 and it works again
Finally everything is ok

I'm very happy for you!

[NZ-Wanderer]

Ok, real silly question here... - How do I setup CC in my path (I think this is why my install keeps failing..) - One of the errors I getting is:

ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is installed on your system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH.

[tseliot]

Ok, real silly question here... - How do I setup CC in my path (I think this is why my install keeps failing..) - One of the errors I getting is:

Open synaptic or kynaptic and type gcc in the search field. You should need gcc and gcc-3.4. Install them (not only the base package). You might want to install "build essential" as well. Then try to install the driver again.

Tell me if it works