HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

[tseliot]

I thought I had followed your guide to the letter, however I cannot install the NVIDIA drivers. My error log:

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Thu Oct  6 21:37:12 2005

option status:
  license pre-accepted    : false
  update                  : false
  force update            : false
  expert                  : false
  uninstall               : false
  driver info             : false
  no precompiled interface: false
  no ncurses color        : false
  query latest driver ver : false
  OpenGL header files     : true
  no questions            : false
  silent                  : false
  no backup               : false
  kernel module only      : false
  sanity                  : false
  add this kernel         : false
  no runlevel check       : false
  no network              : false
  no ABI note             : false
  no RPMs                 : false
  force tls               : (not specified)
  force compat32 tls      : (not specified)
  X install prefix        : /usr/X11R6
  OpenGL install prefix   : /usr
  compat32 install prefix : /emul/ia32-linux
  installer install prefix: /usr
  utility install prefix  : /usr
  kernel name             : (not specified)
  kernel include path     : (not specified)
  kernel source path      : (not specified)
  kernel output path      : (not specified)
  kernel install path     : (not specified)
  proc mount point        : /proc
  ui                      : (not specified)
  tmpdir                  : /tmp
  ftp mirror              : ftp://download.nvidia.com
  RPM file list           : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
   ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
   rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
   this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
   your kernel.
ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `make` in your path; please make
       sure that you have the package 'make' installed.  If make is installed
       on your system, then please check that `make` is in your PATH.
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file
       '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions
       on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
       driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

Open Synaptic/Kynaptic and install "Make". Then try again.

[tseliot]

Hello,
yes the onboard graphics have to be disabled in the bios.
Doesn't matter. They don't work!
The error is about xconfig and xserver
After diableing the onboard graphics I get this error

Open /var/log/nvidia-installer.log copy its content and paste it here, please.

[PiIsExactly3]

Thanks for your help. It replaced one error for another, but I figured the rest out on my own. I needed to get libc6-dev as well.

[tseliot]

Thanks for your help. It replaced one error for another, but I figured the rest out on my own. I needed to get libc6-dev as well.

I want thank you because you made me realise that I had to add something more to the guide.

[gmatt]

If you have Ubuntu 64bit you can't install OpenGL32bit compatibility libraries, so when the installer asks whether to install it just answer no.

This is troublesome because now that I have Nvidia installed and cedega installed and when I play games in -opengl mode I get alot of crashes. Is there a way that I can install the OpenGL32bit libraries? I remember reading on the cedega wiki page a howto that let you use 32bit libraries by chrooting your system.

[tseliot]

This is troublesome because now that I have Nvidia installed and cedega installed and when I play games in -opengl mode I get alot of crashes. Is there a way that I can install the OpenGL32bit libraries? I remember reading on the cedega wiki page a howto that let you use 32bit libraries by chrooting your system.

Look at point 5) of the Problems section at the end of the guide. I've just added it.

[cosimo]

Hello,
Maybe you can help me with this. I have a machine with an intel video chip onboard. Through windows it is easy to disable this, however, Ubuntu Breezy , picks it up during install and installs the drivers for it. I believe this is one of the problems with initiating the nvidia PCi video card. I know that through windows , if I don't diasble the onboard video, the pci card will not work. I have to, as I said , diable this in harware profiles on windows.
So how do I uninstall the intel drivers from ubuntu, and initiate the pci card at the same time before I reboot?
Thanks
Coz

[tseliot]

Hello,
Maybe you can help me with this. I have a machine with an intel video chip onboard. Through windows it is easy to disable this, however, Ubuntu Breezy , picks it up during install and installs the drivers for it. I believe this is one of the problems with initiating the nvidia PCi video card. I know that through windows , if I don't diasble the onboard video, the pci card will not work. I have to, as I said , diable this in harware profiles on windows.
So how do I uninstall the intel drivers from ubuntu, and initiate the pci card at the same time before I reboot?
Thanks
Coz

1) Try to select the graphic board from your bios; If this function isn't available, go straight to point 2)

2) Then follow this steps > open Terminal or Konsole and type:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

When it asks you about your graphic card select it manually (don't do autodetect). DO NOT SELECT the "NVIDIA" DRIVER, SELECT "NV" instead

Select the "advanced" when it asks you about the refresh rate (make sure you know the horizontal and vertical refresh rate supported by your monitor (try in google or if you have a manual of the monitor) OR you can make it autodetect.

It will ask you your desired resolutions, select the ones you need by pressing the SPACEBAR.

If you don't know how to answer the other questions you can use the suggested answers (which will work) by pressing ENTER (without typing anything).

3) After you finish, log out and press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

4) log in and see if everything is displayed correctly. If it works you can reinstall the nvidia drivers as described in my guide.

Tell me if it works

[cosimo]

Hello,
NO GO!
There is no bios switch for the onboard video , so I followed your directions. To make the story short, when I rebooted I got a blue screen with a white window saying "The X Server is now diabled. Resrt GDM when it is configured correctly"
Now what? All I have is command line interface!
Thanks
Coz

[tseliot]

Type:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

When it asks you about your graphic card autodetect it.