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Orion_PKFD
December 27th, 2009, 01:41 AM
Hi all again,

After installing ubuntu 9.10 images and the desktop view is grainy and weird. What may be causing this?

I would appreciate your help,

Best regards
taurus
December 27th, 2009, 01:42 AM
Maybe it has something to do with your graphic card? What do you have and have you installed a driver for it?
Orion_PKFD
December 27th, 2009, 01:49 AM
I installed it on an Asus laptop with NVIDIA Geforce GT220M. I haven't installed anything yet because I dont know what I need to do :( Will I need to install something?

Regards
Orion_PKFD
December 27th, 2009, 12:27 PM
Guys, please help over here:confused:
Orion_PKFD
December 27th, 2009, 01:24 PM
I went to system>administration>hardware drivers and installed the driver (it is better now, but still isn't as perfect as it is on Win7), but it is not the same I see at NVIDIA's website. I ype this: sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run but a message appears and says that I need to close an X app or something like that.

Am I doing something wrong?
realzippy
December 27th, 2009, 01:34 PM
Log out,then press Alt+ctrl+F2,then stop gdm:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

if on Karmic:

sudo service gdm stop

then run your sudo sh NVID.....
Orion_PKFD
December 27th, 2009, 10:46 PM
Hi,

I'm on 9.10. What Alt+ctrl+F2 does?
And what am I doing with: sudo service gdm stop?

Sorry about the questions;)
realzippy
December 28th, 2009, 07:01 PM
Download the 195.22 driver to your Desktop....
then install it:

1.Log out
2.Press Alt+Ctrl+F2
3.Log in at shell (username&password)
4.Type:
sudo service gdm stop

5.Type:
cd Desktop
6.Type
sudo sh NVID (hit"Tab" to autocomplete!)
7."YES" to all asked questions during installation
8.Type:
sudo reboot
Orion_PKFD
December 29th, 2009, 12:05 AM
It is the same as after I installed one with "administration>hardware drivers", but it is good enough I think. When I'll want to processed images or something like that I'll use Win7

Thanks
Orion_PKFD
May 1st, 2010, 10:46 PM
Download the 195.22 driver to your Desktop....
then install it:

1.Log out
2.Press Alt+Ctrl+F2
3.Log in at shell (username&password)
4.Type:

5.Type:
cd Desktop
6.Type
sudo sh NVID (hit"Tab" to autocomplete!)
7."YES" to all asked questions during installation
8.Type:
sudo reboot


Whenever I do an update (the automatic ones) which needs to restart the laptop, I need to do the "quoted" again and again and again...I never figured out why.

Today, after doing the update, I tried to do "sudo service gdm stop" but it says unknown or something like that.

Anyone knows how to fix this?

Thanks