8.04 on AMD/64 NVIDIA gone!!

[ELMIT]

I hope somebody got a quick idea how to fix that ;-)

My /boot directory got too small and it could not install the new kernel anymore. So I did a remove older kernels. HOWEVER, for some (unknown) reason it removed ALL kernels. Before I rebooted I added the latest kernel again. I thought that would be enough.

I rebooted and have now the resolution of 800x600
(but to all fairness on both screens and I am seeing all in "stereo")

Hardware drivers shows nothing. I have tried to install nvidia-glx and rebooted, but still Hardware drivers remains empty.

It seems to boot with xorg.conf.failsafe

How can I fix that?

bye

Ronald

[bruno9779]

The best way I have found for my Nvidia drivers is installing the ppa, updating and installing drivers:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install nvidia-graphics-drivers-190

This way the drivers will be updated with the kernel.

PS:I am not sure the 190 driver are the best for your card, as I dunno which card you have...

[ELMIT]

sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found

What next?

bye

Ronald

[bruno9779]

sorry, I didn't notice you are not on 9.10.

here is a link on their launchpad page, you'll find instructions for your distro there.

https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa