HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu Breezy

[tseliot]

nice!!! now i have nvidia-drivers in my box!! but i would like to know why glxgears r so slow and don't give me any fps result. gaming is ok!!

ups!! i got why glxgears didn't ahow any result!! hehehehe, missing a parameter for the program:



is that ok??

sincerly nrayever

Yes, it's ok. It's a bug of glgears.

[tseliot]

Comradevik and Owdy: I suggest you to go to the unofficial nvidia forum. The developers of the drivers will help you there.

[Owdy]

Where is unofficial nvidia forum?

[tseliot]

Where is unofficial nvidia forum?

It's in my guide:

If this doesn't work for you try asking at this Forum and you might be talking to some of the developers of the NVIDIA drivers (there's a Linux section) (it's very useful)
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

[Owdy]

Ok, thanks for trying to help Tseliot!

[comradevik]

I GOT IT TO WORK
htere hasn't beena thing yet that didnt work in ubuntu
i wasnt sure it would work... but i rebooted my comp five times.. tried glxgears everytime and no problem

ok so i downloaded the 7664 driver from nvidia.com
(because i have nvidia geforce 6200 agp and the changelog for that driver said "added support for geforce 6200 agp)
then i followed tseliots tutorial with a few changes

sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx
and

sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx-legacy

i'm still not totaly sure if that was the problem before but still

and then after hte driver was installed i didnt do sudo gdm start but instead i just shutdown my computer and then turned it back on
it worked..
i tested everything glxinfo glxgears etc.. nothing gave me a problem
so i rebooted
and it worked again
and i rebooted
and it still worked

[tseliot]

I GOT IT TO WORK
htere hasn't beena thing yet that didnt work in ubuntu
i wasnt sure it would work... but i rebooted my comp five times.. tried glxgears everytime and no problem

ok so i downloaded the 7664 driver from nvidia.com
(because i have nvidia geforce 6200 agp and the changelog for that driver said "added support for geforce 6200 agp)
then i followed tseliots tutorial with a few changes

sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx
and

sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx-legacy

i'm still not totaly sure if that was the problem before but still

and then after hte driver was installed i didnt do sudo gdm start but instead i just shutdown my computer and then turned it back on
it worked..
i tested everything glxinfo glxgears etc.. nothing gave me a problem
so i rebooted
and it worked again
and i rebooted
and it still worked

I'm happy for you.

BTW it really seems that the solutions are as many as the problems. I hope the next drivers will improve the current situation.

[Owdy]

Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...246#post726246

Solution: if you change from nvidia-glx to offical driver, remove all nvidia related stuff via synaptic (exept nvidia-settings) + check in /etc/init.d for an nvidia-glx init script or similar name and delete it. They will broke your driver if you change to offical one.

[comradevik]

yup it was the init.d script.. same happened for me

tseliot u should add/change
sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-* to the HOWTO

[tseliot]

yup it was the init.d script.. same happened for me

tseliot u should add/change
sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-* to the HOWTO

Thanks I'll add it to the guide.

EDIT: Wait a second... that command was ALREADY included in my guide. Perhaps you didn't follow every step.

Ok, now let's begin:

1) uninstall nvidia-glx (if you don't have it just go to step 2)

2) remove the file manually:
sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx