escott28
March 5th, 2011, 11:42 PM
Hey all
I really hate having to ask stupid questions in these forums when the answer is obviously floating around the Internet somewhere, but it's come to the point where I really need the hand holding.
Ok, here's the issue.
I have a Sony Vaio F-Series laptop I'm trying to get a good working Ubuntu 10.10 64bit install on. I previously had a Fedora 14 installation running next to a windows install (Blasphemy in a Ubuntu forum, I know, but I've seen the light). I have previously installed Ubuntu on my desktop and struggled to get the ATI drivers working right but eventually prevailed (So I'm not an absolute n00b). The laptop is a different story. I have an NVIDIA card (400M series) but upon booting to the live disk and after installation, I have a screen resolution of 800x600 (Which you can Imagine looks absolutely awful on a screen that's supposed to be 1920x1080) with no way to change it. Ok, so I try to install the nvidia drivers. Nothing seems to work. I've tried to use the additional drivers option that Ubuntu kindly presents to me. However, this fails to work properly (as I should have learned from my issues with my ATI drivers). Now, after a re-install of ubuntu, I'm trying to get the nvidia drives from their website to work which involves killing the X-server and running at a different run level (Or so I understand), which, not only being a pain in the butt, is also a little above my n00bish head.
So, basically, where can I find DETAILED STEP-BY-STEP instructions on how to make ubuntu work in a reasonably sane manner (ie, run at 1920x1080, run compiz and do graphics work in blender and GIMP). These graphics drivers a such a pain and from what I've read, a given method seems to work for some and fails for others. I think it's just a mater of finding the proper procedure for my case.
I run a Sony Vaio F-series Notebook with
Core i7 cpu @ 1.73GHz
4Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M 1GB
Thanks in advance for any help
Erik
I really hate having to ask stupid questions in these forums when the answer is obviously floating around the Internet somewhere, but it's come to the point where I really need the hand holding.
Ok, here's the issue.
I have a Sony Vaio F-Series laptop I'm trying to get a good working Ubuntu 10.10 64bit install on. I previously had a Fedora 14 installation running next to a windows install (Blasphemy in a Ubuntu forum, I know, but I've seen the light). I have previously installed Ubuntu on my desktop and struggled to get the ATI drivers working right but eventually prevailed (So I'm not an absolute n00b). The laptop is a different story. I have an NVIDIA card (400M series) but upon booting to the live disk and after installation, I have a screen resolution of 800x600 (Which you can Imagine looks absolutely awful on a screen that's supposed to be 1920x1080) with no way to change it. Ok, so I try to install the nvidia drivers. Nothing seems to work. I've tried to use the additional drivers option that Ubuntu kindly presents to me. However, this fails to work properly (as I should have learned from my issues with my ATI drivers). Now, after a re-install of ubuntu, I'm trying to get the nvidia drives from their website to work which involves killing the X-server and running at a different run level (Or so I understand), which, not only being a pain in the butt, is also a little above my n00bish head.
So, basically, where can I find DETAILED STEP-BY-STEP instructions on how to make ubuntu work in a reasonably sane manner (ie, run at 1920x1080, run compiz and do graphics work in blender and GIMP). These graphics drivers a such a pain and from what I've read, a given method seems to work for some and fails for others. I think it's just a mater of finding the proper procedure for my case.
I run a Sony Vaio F-series Notebook with
Core i7 cpu @ 1.73GHz
4Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M 1GB
Thanks in advance for any help
Erik