Bleeding Edge Video - Worth a shot trying Fiesty?

[Kerry Lange]

I've installed some new hardware:

Asus P5LD2
Intel Core 2 6600
nVidia 8800 GTX
DDR2 667

The Edgy Live CD barfed on my new hardware. Would I have any better luck with Fiesty?

[Henry Rayker]

I think it would be helpful to anyone who sees this for you to list the problems you encountered.

[bodycoach2]

Might try the alternate install CD. Some seem to have a much easier time with it.

[Kerry Lange]

Where can I get the alternate install CD? In the following thread I see a link to an alternate CD but the link is broken:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=343545

[pochu]

This is the right link. Images are updated daily:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/

[Kerry Lange]

Okay, I tried a build I downloaded yesterday evening. The Live CD went fine until it tried loading the video drivers. I got that screen that displays when the GDM won't load and here's the short output I got:

Failed to start your X server...

Fatal server error:
(EE) No devices detected
No screens found f"

That was it. When I looked for the details, I saw all of the cards the video driver supports and the 8800 isn't one of 'em. I guess it's a case of waiting until we get support for the 8800 series nVidia card.

[Saibot]

Thought you might like to know I just got Edgy working with my 8800GTX today - it's even running Beryl with Twinview over two 20.1" screens (and crazy fast too). I tried to get Feisty to work this weekend, but the installer kept hanging so I didn't get far.
I never had any luck installing the nvidia drivers myself with edgy and the 8800,(not sure what I was doing wrong) but I recently discovered this:

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

I probably did it the hard way, but whatever - it worked for me. After the Edgy install puked and kicked me to the cute little flashing cursor I manually downloaded and installed the 'Envy' script and ran it. It did it's thing and downloaded the right drivers and now Ubuntu works for me again.
For the record my hardware is Asus A8N-SLI Premium with Athlon X2 4800, 8800GTX, and lot's of goodies. I know the motherboard and processor aren't really cutting edge anymore, but the video is (for a while anyways).
You might have to jump through hoops to get it working, but it is possible, and hopefully when Feisty is done it will just 'work'.

[Kerry Lange]

Okay, after an adventure trying to install Edgy using the Alternate CD (didn't work because I have an Intel 965p-based chipset, which doesn't seem to work with Linux), I tried the Alternate Feisty CD and I got Feisty installed.

However, I still get the X server error and the GUI won't run. So, I'm going to give Envy a try to see if the latest nVidia drivers will allow the GUI to load.

[Kerry Lange]

I've been able to download a copy of the latest nVidia driver now and tried installing it using the utility they include. However, when I do that the utility tells me I need to have "libc" installed.

How do I install "libc".

Is it as easy as "sudo apt-get libc" or something like that?

Anyone?

[Master Ar2ro]

I'm no guru, but I'd bet libc should already be there if you managed to install the system. Perhaps the versions don't match...

[Kerry Lange]

Well, I installed something called "libc6" but that wasn't it. The error message I get says I need a "libc development package."

Anybody know what that is?

[Master Ar2ro]

Try installing libc6-dev ;). As for libc, apart from libc6 there are no other libc packages.

[Kerry Lange]

Finally! It worked!

Thanks. I've got Feisty working with my hardware. So, here's what worked:

1. Used the alternate CD to get everything installed. At this point the X server didn't work with my nVidia 8800 card.

2. I got the latest nVidia drivers from the nVidia site and, using Windows, saved them to a CD.

3. I booted to Ubuntu and used the command line to install the nVidia drivers.

4. I mounted the CD and copied the drivers to the file system. I could probably have run the driver utility from CD but I did it from the HDD.

5. The drivers come with a utility to configure the X server so there was no need to manually edit the X server config file. Before the installation utility would work, though, I had to have "libc6-dev" installed first.

6. When I rebooted, everything came up as you'd expect!

[snickkers]

So, you didnt end up using that "Envy" script in the end?

[Kerry Lange]

Oops. Sorry for not responding earlier. That's right. I didn't use envy. I simply used the files provided by nVidia.

[MetalMusicAddict]

The Feisty repos should have the newest nVidia drivers.

[Raptormn]

oh thank you! you have made my day. :) :KS



Finally! It worked!

Thanks. I've got Feisty working with my hardware. So, here's what worked:

1. Used the alternate CD to get everything installed. At this point the X server didn't work with my nVidia 8800 card.

2. I got the latest nVidia drivers from the nVidia site and, using Windows, saved them to a CD.

3. I booted to Ubuntu and used the command line to install the nVidia drivers.

4. I mounted the CD and copied the drivers to the file system. I could probably have run the driver utility from CD but I did it from the HDD.

5. The drivers come with a utility to configure the X server so there was no need to manually edit the X server config file. Before the installation utility would work, though, I had to have "libc6-dev" installed first.

6. When I rebooted, everything came up as you'd expect!

[NZ-Wanderer]

Today I installed a Geforce 8800GTS on my Vista partition, but when I went over to my Kubuntu partition it wouldn't work, after reading some other threads (one of which after following I lost all screen display (including text)) I found your method so am going to re-install Kubuntu using the alternate CD.

Can you tell me if you think the the steps you did would work for Edgy please??

If you think they could, could you possibly explain your steps 3, 4 and 5 in a bit more detail please (I not too good at command stuff)

And also, where exactly on the Nvidia site did you get the drivers from :) :)

Any and all help would be very much appreciated....


Finally! It worked!
Thanks. I've got Feisty working with my hardware. So, here's what worked:
1. Used the alternate CD to get everything installed. At this point the X server didn't work with my nVidia 8800 card.
2. I got the latest nVidia drivers from the nVidia site and, using Windows, saved them to a CD.
3. I booted to Ubuntu and used the command line to install the nVidia drivers.
4. I mounted the CD and copied the drivers to the file system. I could probably have run the driver utility from CD but I did it from the HDD.
5. The drivers come with a utility to configure the X server so there was no need to manually edit the X server config file. Before the installation utility would work, though, I had to have "libc6-dev" installed first.
6. When I rebooted, everything came up as you'd expect!

[Kerry Lange]

You can read some instructions I left in another thread as follows:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=351205&page=2

The process *should* work with Edgy as well.

Regarding the drivers, I just went to the nVidia site, clicked on driver downloads & followed the links from there. You just select your OS & away you go.

[NZ-Wanderer]

Thanks for the reply, I actually managed to solve it yesterday myself (a first for me..)

This is what I ended up doing....

I typed:
sudo wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9746/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run
(to get the latest drivers)

Then I typed
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run
(And followed all the prompts)

Then just rebooted the computer and it WORKED :) :)



You can read some instructions I left in another thread as follows:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=351205&page=2
The process *should* work with Edgy as well.
Regarding the drivers, I just went to the nVidia site, clicked on driver downloads & followed the links from there. You just select your OS & away you go.

[technics]

gonna try and install edgy tonight with my 8800GTS, hope itll go alright using your methods. thanks for writing down ur problems and solutions!

[underthehour2000]

This is how i installed my 8800gts card, am still using dapper, but this will work for edgy :) So i used the alternative cd, installed normally, then rebooted and bam, there goes the x server error. As noted earlier drivers with ubuntu @ mo dont work. So it was a quick edit of the xorg.conf files (sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf), to change "nv" to "vesa" drivers. 1 reboot later, and up comes the gui.

But we want 3d drivers right... so i tried both methods:

1st method, by downloading the nvidia drivers directly off the nvidia site. (As the latest drivers in synaptic packagemanager or apt dont work). Before you can use the nvidia driver from the nvidia site though, you need to settle library dependicies.

The nvidia installer prompts u what libraries are needed when running the installer, if there not already loaded onto your ubuntu machine. Basically the dependancies needed are the compiling tools, such as build-essentials, linux headers, gcc, make etc... i cannot remeber the exact files needed, off the top of my head! but if you run the installer it will mention them.

OK now you need to, exit out of ubuntu gui and into a terminal, for this trick try the following commands... Otherwise the nvidia installer wont run.

ctrl+alt+f1,

then type @ the command prompt
sudo killall gdm

This kills all gui ubuntu interface you was just in, and then your ready to try to run the installer. If This above command dont work for you, try restarting your computer and selecting recoverymode @ the grub menu.

Ok so back @ the terminal, goto the directory where u installed the nvidia drivers, for instance i installed my drivers on the desktop, so the command would be;

cd /home/user/desktop/

and run the installer with

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run (note the nvidia installer u downloaded may have a different name).

The installer then runs, follow the screen prompts and happy days (Default selections should work).

Reboot once your done and your drivers should be working. Try glxgears and glxinfo to see if direct rendering says yes.

2nd Method;

Ok now how to install envy, 1st you need to go to http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

1) Download and install the deb package:

double click on the deb package in Ubuntu or right click on the deb package and select install"

2) Make sure that all the dependencies were installed by typing:
sudo apt-get install -f

3) Launch Envy's GUI (inside a Desktop Environment such as GNOME, by selecting it in the "Applications/System Tools" menu

OR if you need to use Envy's textual interface you will have to type:
sudo envy -t

This should work for you edgy folks. However for dapper like me, i had to do it this way;

1st exit out of ubuntu gui, and into a terminal, for this trick try the following commands...

ctrl+alt+f1,

then type @ the command prompt

sudo killall gdm

sudo envy

Follow envy's instructions and then your all good. You will need an active internet connection when using envy so it can download the latest nvidia installer and any other additional packages.

I hope this helps you folks. What i have noticed though, my desktop is not as smooth with windows resizing moving etc..., but on the other hand q4 runs so delicious so i can live with this :lolflag:

Also if you update your kernal/system, apparently you will have to reinstall these drivers again.

What i really would like to know though, if i try out fiesty fawn will the drivers be automatically installed? or will ubuntu atleast start the xserver on fresh install to avoid all this xorg.conf tweaking @ start? Also if any1 has tried out the new fiesty fawn, does the nvidia driver work nice and smooth, and can you install the driver via synaptic packagemanger or apt?

K folks, pardon my grammer and typos. This is my 1st real contribution on a how to and hope it works out for ya.

ultm8

[doriard]

Finally! It worked!

Thanks. I've got Feisty working with my hardware. So, here's what worked:

1. Used the alternate CD to get everything installed. At this point the X server didn't work with my nVidia 8800 card.

2. I got the latest nVidia drivers from the nVidia site and, using Windows, saved them to a CD.

3. I booted to Ubuntu and used the command line to install the nVidia drivers.

4. I mounted the CD and copied the drivers to the file system. I could probably have run the driver utility from CD but I did it from the HDD.

5. The drivers come with a utility to configure the X server so there was no need to manually edit the X server config file. Before the installation utility would work, though, I had to have "libc6-dev" installed first.

6. When I rebooted, everything came up as you'd expect!

I tried installing libc6-dev (so that I could install the GeForce 7600GT NVidia drivers) but the Synaptics installeer gave me the error message:

The following packages have unresolvable dependencies...
Depends: libc6 (=2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1) but 2.5-0ubuntu14 is to be installed

I am new to Linux/Ubuntu. Any ideas on how to resolve this? I looked for marked packages waiting to be installed (is that what it was talking about?) but didn't see any. What is the '2.5-0ubuntu14' waiting to be installed that it's talking about?

I just installed Fiesty Fawn for my first Linux install today and I'm still getting used to it. I need to get dual monitors working.

[ruibuntu]

You should have the build-essential and the linux-source package installed.

And then install the driver by running it as a super user