HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu Breezy

[serzz]

Noup. Seems that I have a bit different problem.

[Akya]

i was trying startx but that doesnt work for me either, and for my login i dont know, i installed enlightenment and it changed my login screen so that might be why

[BLTicklemonster]

Did it again on my son's computer, too. You might want to warn people, just as you tell them to hit ctrl+alt+f1 that they are about to go into lala land, to copy, print or write down the following instructions. (I think I already said that, but it bears repeating)

[siorai]

I'm thinking of upgrading to the new 8174 drivers, but I've got a question. Using the Method 2 instructions, when I get to the point of uninstalling the current drivers, specifcally the nvidia-kernel, it also wants to uninstall the following:

linux-686-smp
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-10-686-smp
linux-restricted-modules-686-smp

Now I'm pretty new to the whole Linux thing, but isn't that first one, the kernel? I don't see any instructions for reinstalling it, so I'm just wanting to make sure that it's ok to be removing it in the first place.

[r4ik]

Will Breezy auto-detect my mx4000 on fresh install.?
I tried the instructions cant get it done.
Nothing important there so if it does fine with me.

Forget about it been runnin around in circels.
This one wasnt posted.
Sorry.

[Ruskie]

Uhm... I'm not very willing to dare into the troubled land of graphics setup... Am I correct if I suppose that, sooner or later, when the new version of nvidia drivers are considered stable, they will be added to the official repositories so that Synaptic finds nvidia-glx can be updated and takes care of it?

Thanks
Marco

[tseliot]

Uhm... I'm not very willing to dare into the troubled land of graphics setup... Am I correct if I suppose that, sooner or later, when the new version of nvidia drivers are considered stable, they will be added to the official repositories so that Synaptic finds nvidia-glx can be updated and takes care of it?

Thanks
Marco

I'm sure nvidia-glx won't be upgraded in Breezy's repositories because it's not a priority (usually security issues are priorities). Perhaps it will be upgraded in Dapper Drake repositories as Dapper is still under development.
This means that no, you won't be able to get the new driver in Synaptic (don't install it from Dapper's repos, please).

[tseliot]

I'm thinking of upgrading to the new 8174 drivers, but I've got a question. Using the Method 2 instructions, when I get to the point of uninstalling the current drivers, specifcally the nvidia-kernel, it also wants to uninstall the following:

linux-686-smp
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-10-686-smp
linux-restricted-modules-686-smp

Now I'm pretty new to the whole Linux thing, but isn't that first one, the kernel? I don't see any instructions for reinstalling it, so I'm just wanting to make sure that it's ok to be removing it in the first place.

You can remove them but you have to install the following packages first:

linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp
linux-headers-2.6.12-10-686-smp

Then you can remove those packages you mentioned.

[tseliot]

For all of you:
I'm sorry but I really can't think now. Tomorrow I'm going to get my degree and I can't think of anything else than Functional Grammar and Automatic translation .

In other words I'll answer to your posts on thursday.

Alberto

[Ruskie]

Good luck! I studied them as well, in my days at Roma Tre...

On the other end: yes, I was exactly meaning: when I'll upgrade to the released Dapper Drake I'll find the new drivers packaged with it. That's enough for me, at least as long as I don't do so much gaming on Linux...