Activating Nvidia drivers

[Dracona]

Hello,
I have been trying to activate the Nvidia driver version 180 (recommended) with no luck. everything goes good until i reboot. the system then hangs up at "checking battery state" i have read a few posts simular to this in the forums, but have had no luck so far. i have even tried downloading the driver from nvidia, but my Linux abilities are not good. i have tried it on ubuntu 32bit, kubuntu 32 and 64 bit ( all 9.04 ) every time i try, i start with a fresh install.
system specs are,
Ubuntu 9.04 ( 32 Bit )
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Asus crosshair Mother board
4 gig corsair ram
2 geforce 8800 gts gpu
74gb WD raptor HD
I will not give up on this, but i do need some help. let me know what other info is needed
Thank you

[SuperSonic4]

Hello.

[wojox]

hello

[Dracona]

If i was to install a earlier version of ubuntu, maybe 8.04,then activate the nvidia drivers, then upgraded to 9.04, would it break the nvidia driver?

[Mark Phelps]

Restricted video drivers are tied to the version of the kernel; thus, before a major kernel upgrade, you are recommended to uninstall restricted drivers.

Once you upgrade to the new kernel, you should then have access to the latest appropriate restricted drivers.

[Meow27]

you should download the latest driver from nvidia
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

after you have that. follow this guide

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=57368



though you may want to unisntall your current driver

[presence1960]

from ubuntu open a terminal and run these commands:


sudo apt-get install envyng-core

&


sudo apt-get install envyng-qt

You can then find Envyng in your Applications menu or from terminal run
envyng -t
and follow the prompts to install Nvidia driver.

[Meow27]

and CAN screw with your kernel, i reccomend you use my way before using envy

[AllenGG]

Hola Dracona ! look at what Meow27 has to say. I've had problems recently with Envyng, seems to goof up, why ??
But, you are running a 32 bit version of Ubuntu on a 64 bit machine.
I have the 64 bit version installed on 2 machines, one is 6 years old. Both have NVidia chip video cards.
Honestly suggest you backup data and upgrade to the newest 64 bit version.

[presence1960]

and CAN screw with your kernel, i reccomend you use my way before using envy

totally untrue! That is why it is in the repositories- it is tested to be safe with Ubuntu.

Personally it does not matter to me which way the OP gets his Nvidia driver working. Go ahead use HIS way.

Have used Envyng on 32 bit 8.04. 64 bit 8.04,8.10 & 9.04 and Mint 5 64 bit. have never had a problem.

[Dracona]

sorry for not getting back to this sooner, but thanks to everyone who responded.
I have tried envy with no luck.
i will give the 64bit a go, and then try what meow27 suggested.

thx again to everyone

[Meow27]

@presence1960

then i stay corrected, but i remember when it wasn't available in the repos

does envy give the latest driver?

[Dracona]

Hello again, just came back to report, that i now have nvidia drivers installed.
i am running ubuntu 8.04 64bit. install was straight forward and very very easy.
only thing, i dont think its the latest version. i am thinking it is 169.xxx or something close.

gonna dig around and see how to tell what version i have, and see about installing the latest drivers.


man 64bit is faaaassst!

windows sucks