nVidia latest Drivers - How to install

[Askar450]

I've disabled GLSL and OpenGL but the problem is that If I switch OpenGL to like pbuffer or backbuffer anything with wine is choopy, GLSL disabled = missing parts on game/character.

[Jonathan_m84]

I just installed the x86_64.185.18.31 drivers and when i reboot i get the error, linux running in low-resolution... he doesnt detect the drivers or something... i installed the drivers by clicking yes on every question, because im not an expert...

i had the 180 installed with the envyng program.. which work perfectly btw (maybe updating to 185 is unnessecary?)

any help please? is there something with the opengl or so that i should now?

i have an acer 5738 laptop with t6400 duo core and Nvidia GeForce G105M videocart..

[Jonathan_m84]

When i install drivers and do a reboot i get the following error:

"failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module ........ screen(0) found, but none have a usable configuration.. "

[Askar450]

I don't know this is the same or not but I was told that before updating your drivers you need to first sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
then remove the current drivers by sudo sh NVIDIA-xxx.run --uninstall, it will tell you it will do its best to uninstall the drivers. Go ahead and press ctrl+alt+F1 and log in, once that is done type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop now just do the samething you did before and they should work.

[NightwishFan]

I successfully installed the driver without build essential. I found that to be very odd, is it possible without it? (I am just curious, I usually use debs anyway but I tested the Nvidia sh installer.)

[ratcheer]

For NightwishFan and Kosimo I have a NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS (notebook card) and I installed them the manual way, the whole gdm + stop, sh NVIDIA-xxx and let it do roll on its own.

I have found that way to be reliable. It may not be the easiest way, but so far, it has always worked.

Tim

[Jonathan_m84]

I don't know this is the same or not but I was told that before updating your drivers you need to first sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
then remove the current drivers by sudo sh NVIDIA-xxx.run --uninstall, it will tell you it will do its best to uninstall the drivers. Go ahead and press ctrl+alt+F1 and log in, once that is done type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop now just do the samething you did before and they should work.

I have the latest linux headers, now my question is, how do I uninstall the current drivers, because I dont have the NVIDIA-xxx.run file for the current drivers, since I installed them using envyNG...

some help? :)

edit: can I just open my synoptics package manager and uninstall everything with nvidia in it??

[Jonathan_m84]

edit: can I just open my synoptics package manager and uninstall everything with nvidia in it??

I did the following:

sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx* nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings
sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-*
sudo update-rc.d nvidia-kernel remove

and then reinstalled the drivers with some weird errors I ignored and thought now it's all wrong, but then rebooted and it finally works :)

[Askar450]

So does anyone have a solution to my problem? I've already got workarounds for it but they don't fix my problem. My really question is what is "libglcore.so.1" and this output mean.

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000004 in 32-bit code (0x7d3195f8).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:7d3195f8 ESP:0033e214 EBP:7c487d74 EFLAGS:00010246( R- -- I Z- -P- )
EAX:00000000 EBX:7beb0990 ECX:000000ad EDX:00000000
ESI:00000000 EDI:00000000

then I get

Backtrace:
=>0 0x7d3195f8 in libglcore.so.1 (+0x8ba5f8) (0x7c487d74)
1 0x00000405 (0x00000000)

[molder]

Trouble Trouble. I installed the nvidia binary NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.14-pkg1 it worked so great when NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.29-pkg1 came I was estastic to upgrade. After a day or two use I got white snow dots all over my display. I blamed the new driver. So I uninstalled the newsest driver and reinstalled the older NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.1-pkg1. After a couple of days I noticed that xorg was consuming quite of bit of resources and not allowing me to watch HD programing. I took it upon my to added Avenard's testing repository and try to install his version of the NVIDIA 185 drivers and now I have no playback and no I idea on what I have do to maybe take a course of remedying my beloved mythbox. I have trying using apt pinning to revert to the Ubuntu version but it doesn't seem to work.



nvidia-glx-190: Depends: nvidia-190-libvdpau (>= 190.18) but it is not going to be installed

[vbundi]

When i install drivers and do a reboot i get the following error:

"failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module ........ screen(0) found, but none have a usable configuration.. "

I also had that problem and fixed it the same way...
Remove the drivers that were previously installed BEFORE trying to install the new driver.

apt-get remove nvidia-180-****.... (there were 4 or 5 packages likes this)

After installing the 190.18 driver, I notice that the tearing I was getting after using mplayer compiled with VDPAU support was GONE!!

Also, 3D performance of compiz is improved.

Seems as though they fixed all their issues fairly quickly.

Everything seems to be running perfectly, running 9800GT gpu.

[ricardo_78]

What are you running.. I am having a few probs with the 180 Drivers, therefore tempted to upgrade to 190.18 beta...

[molder]

I used sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx-* and about 4 programs were uninstalled. I rebooted and then installed nvidia-glx-190. During the removal MythTV was also remove (just the program not my settings) so no big deal I can reinstall. But I can because now I have unresolved dependency issues with the 190.14 NVidia driver installed. So reinstall nvidia-glx-180. Now MythTV will not play videos. When I try to upgrade I get this message:


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-glx-185: Depends: nvidia-185-libvdpau (>= 185.18.14) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[vreemde eend]

Well I re-did things twice, with no success. The first time I uninstalled the driver, then installed the new one, then checked to see if there was an "xorg.conf" anywhere other than in /etc/X11 and there wasn't. I even ran "nvidia-xconfig" to see if it mattered if I ran it a second time and it put the "xorg.conf" file in the right place.
The second time, after reinstalling the 185.18.14 driver, I didn't uninstall it and instead let the installer for the 185.18.31 driver do it, which didn't seem to make a difference. I also tried to start gdm again before running "nvidia-xconfig" again like tralston did, but of course starting gdm blacked-out my screen.
Long story short: Something changed between the 185.18.14 driver and the 185.18.29 driver that broke compatibility with my card, a Quadro FX 3700 (a pretty new card).

I've got the same problem. Tried several things, but reverted to the old driver for now. (Quadro NVS 140M)

[rainwalker]

I've got the same problem. Tried several things, but reverted to the old driver for now. (Quadro NVS 140M)

What driver are you using? I'm wondering if it's something with drivers newer than 185.18.14 that messes up with Quadro cards...
Is anyone else using the newer drivers successfully with a Quadro?

[vreemde eend]

What driver are you using? I'm wondering if it's something with drivers newer than 185.18.14 that messes up with Quadro cards...
Is anyone else using the newer drivers successfully with a Quadro?

I'm using the 185.18.14 driver.

[Buschbarber]

I just switched to the 185.18.31, from 185.18.14, when the latest Ubuntu Updates included a Kernel update that killed X on my system.

I have a 9800GTX+

[tidewatcher]

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.31 doesn't work. It simply turns off the light and hangs. No error messages or anything suspicious in the logs. Reverting to the ubuntu-packaged nvidia-glx-180, which works but crashes several times every day.

Quadro FX 360M (rev a1) in Dell Precision m4300

[rainwalker]

I just switched to the 185.18.31, from 185.18.14, when the latest Ubuntu Updates included a Kernel update that killed X on my system.

I have a 9800GTX+

You need to recompile the driver, or see the auto-recompile script in the first post of the thread


NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.31 doesn't work. It simply turns off the light and hangs. No error messages or anything suspicious in the logs. Reverting to the ubuntu-packaged nvidia-glx-180, which works but crashes several times every day.

Quadro FX 360M (rev a1) in Dell Precision m4300

I guess the newer drivers do have issues with Quadro cards :?

[tidewatcher]

I guess the newer drivers do have issues with Quadro cards :?

A funny bunch of user names here :)

The newest driver (190) doesn't seem to have issues with these cards any longer. They are not even mentioned among the supported ones. My machine is only 1.5 years old; I guess that's too five minutes ago for Nvidia, or otherwise Dell purchased the already obsolete scraps.

Correction to my previous post: I was finally able to install the driver package from a ppa yesterday and it hasn't failed so far. I forgot to mention that it was Nvidia's own shell-based installation, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.31-pkg1.run, that gave me a dead Xorg. Here's the one that is working:


apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-180
nvidia-glx-180:
Installed: 185.18.14-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 185.18.14-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 185.18.14-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
180.44-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages

The reason I didn't try it first was because I probably didn't see it in my apt sources. It's name tag is confusing: it is listed as nvidia-glx-180, but its version is 185.18.14-0ubuntu1.

So now I don't know whether success or failure is determined by the difference in the minor version (18.14 vs. 18.31), or because Nvidia's installer did something weird. I guess the easiest way to find out is to sit and wait.

So, 180.18.14-0ubuntu1 seems to work on my 360M, if one day is long enough for a test. I'll make noise if it fails.

[rainwalker]

A funny bunch of user names here :)

The newest driver (190) doesn't seem to have issues with these cards any longer. They are not even mentioned among the supported ones. My machine is only 1.5 years old; I guess that's too five minutes ago for Nvidia, or otherwise Dell purchased the already obsolete scraps.

Correction to my previous post: I was finally able to install the driver package from a ppa yesterday and it hasn't failed so far. I forgot to mention that it was Nvidia's own shell-based installation, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.31-pkg1.run, that gave me a dead Xorg. Here's the one that is working:


apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-180
nvidia-glx-180:
Installed: 185.18.14-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 185.18.14-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 185.18.14-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
180.44-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages

The reason I didn't try it first was because I probably didn't see it in my apt sources. It's name tag is confusing: it is listed as nvidia-glx-180, but its version is 185.18.14-0ubuntu1.

So now I don't know whether success or failure is determined by the difference in the minor version (18.14 vs. 18.31), or because Nvidia's installer did something weird. I guess the easiest way to find out is to sit and wait.

So, 180.18.14-0ubuntu1 seems to work on my 360M, if one day is long enough for a test. I'll make noise if it fails.

185.18.14 is two versions older than the newest, 185.18.31, and is the version I'm using as well (compiled with Nvidia's .run package). 185.18.29 and 185.18.31 are the two newer versions that I've had no success with, but I haven't tried any of the 190.xx drivers.

[crjackson]

New Driver Today...

[Kosimo]

New Driver Today...

Thanks for the heads up.

Links at the first page

[Kosimo]

190.25 changelog:



* Added code to reject screen modes based on available DisplayPort link bandwidth. Fixes display corruption caused by allowing high bandwidth modes on display devices that can't handle them, such as certain DisplayPort-to-VGA adapters that only support 2 DisplayPort lanes.
* Fixed an initialization problem on some mobile GPUs.
* Worked around X.Org X server Bugzilla bug #22804. This bug allows X clients to send invalid XGetImage requests to the hardware, leading to screen corruption or hangs. This was most commonly triggered by running JDownloader in KDE 4.
* Fixed a crash in nvidia-settings displaying GPU information when in Xinerama.

[Buschbarber]

I just went to the Nvidia site and even the Beta drivers, for Linux, have not been released for 190.25. Where did you get yours?

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

[Kosimo]

I just went to the Nvidia site and even the Beta drivers, for Linux, have not been released for 190.25. Where did you get yours?

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

You'll find the links in the first page of this thread.

[Wheelgunner]

Hello,

I'm new to Ubuntu and have a problem. The screen flashes black for a few tenths of a seconds at random intervals. In an archived thread I read that this may have something to do with the nVidia drivers, but there was no solutions yet at that time.

I'm running the 180 version of the nVidia driver that had the label recommended, my card is a GeForce Go 7300 in a Toshiba Satellite A200.

Is this a familiar problem? Is there a fix by now?

[NightwishFan]

Hello,

I'm new to Ubuntu and have a problem. The screen flashes black for a few tenths of a seconds at random intervals. In an archived thread I read that this may have something to do with the nVidia drivers, but there was no solutions yet at that time.

I'm running the 180 version of the nVidia driver that had the label recommended, my card is a GeForce Go 7300 in a Toshiba Satellite A200.

Is this a familiar problem? Is there a fix by now?

You should probably start a new thread related to this issue. Create a similar post there and ask for assistance.

[Kosimo]

Guys, nVidia have just published a new beta version:

190.32


Changelog:


* Added support for IgnoreEDIDChecksum X configuration option, which can be used to force the X driver to accept the EDID of a display device even when the checksum is invalid. Please see the README IgnoreEDIDChecksum description for a caution and details of use.
* Added support for configuring the GPU's fan speed; see the "Coolbits" X configuration option in the README.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption near the bottom edge of the picture when decoding VC-1 simple/main profile clips whose heights are not exact multiples of 16 pixels, on GPUs with VDPAU feature set A.
* On GPUs with VDPAU feature set C, VDPAU now supports decoding MPEG-4 Part 2, DivX 4, and DivX 5 video. The VDPAU API has been enhanced to expose this feature.
* On GPUs with VDPAU feature set C, VDPAU now supports a higher quality video scaling algorithm. The VDPAU API has been enhanced to expose this feature.



Links in the first page of this thread

[darco]

heh..I JUST install .25 ....oh well
thxs

darco

[Kosimo]

heh..I JUST install .25 ....oh well
thxs

darco

Come on, I'm sure you enjoy compiling your own drivers ;)


What I can say is that I've been testing the latest 190.35 and so far so good :KS I couldn't run any test like phoronix test, but I will if I can.

Something bad I can say about this drivers is that they still lack full support for the upcomming 2.6.31 kernel, but they still work.

[nyonet]

Where can I see if the geforce gt 130m is compatible with this last beta driver?

thanks

edit: yes..it's compatible...i've installed it, and i can see video, but no sound.... continue working :p

[demeter]

hi there, I followed the how to on installing the driver for my Riva TNT2 graphic card and all that was lacking during the installation was that x.org automatic configuration step. Also during the process it said that it had to build a kernel, after the installation process it said something about the x.org config file (cant really understand what does it mean:(),anyway, rebooted the system and no changes whatsoever, i mean the drivers arent present in the hardware driver list and still cant change my screen resolution...any help would be greatly appreciated....thanks...

[nikio]

Little problem here: I can't even download the file!
I've tried the both 185 and the 190 download but with no success.
When I come to the download page and click the "Agree & Download" button, a smaller window appears, offering "Cancel" and "Save File" if I click on Save nothing happens :confused:
Does someone know if there is an other way to download the file (or how to fix firefox, of course :D)?

[Mi*6d@#]

Thank you very much for this guide! Last time I tried to install drivers manually it ended up in Ubuntu reinstallation...

[Old Marcus]

Little problem here: I can't even download the file!
I've tried the both 185 and the 190 download but with no success.
When I come to the download page and click the "Agree & Download" button, a smaller window appears, offering "Cancel" and "Save File" if I click on Save nothing happens :confused:
Does someone know if there is an other way to download the file (or how to fix firefox, of course :D)?
Right click, Save file as?

[Skip Da Shu]

Do you actually use CUDA? I do not think there is more than 0.01% in this forum that would use CUDA.

CUDA is a C language environment/compiler to program GPUs to in effect perform the functions of a CPU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA

Required for BOINC GPUgrid and other CUDA based GPU number crunching.

[Skip Da Shu]

One of the BOINC projects (GPUgrid) has upgraded their applications to use Cuda v2.2 which will require all the Linux crunchers to upgrade to 185.xx drivers.

Suspect you'll see some increase in activity around this.

I tried last night but get the 'low-res' message at reboot. Will go thru it again using 1st post instructions. IF I remember you said to un-enable the existing 180.44 driver first... how would u recommend doing that prior to running the Nvidia .run installer?

I'll post the Nvidia kernel errors if I get it again.

Kernel 2.6.28, 64b Jaunty

[Skip Da Shu]

After disabling the 180.44 driver and running the 185-...pkg2.run install:


Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop avahi-daemon[3321]: Server startup complete. Host name is c17-desktop.local. Local service cookie is 2274955198.
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop kernel: [ 17.607019] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop kernel: [ 17.607026] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop kernel: [ 17.607169] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 180.44 Tue Mar 24 05:46:32 PST 2009
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop anacron[3448]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop /usr/sbin/cron[3492]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop /usr/sbin/cron[3493]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop kernel: [ 17.695658] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.36, but
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop kernel: [ 17.695659] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 180.44. Please
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop kernel: [ 17.695659] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop kernel: [ 17.695660] NVRM: components have the same version.
Sep 22 17:15:48 c17-desktop /usr/sbin/cron[3493]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Sep 22 17:15:49 c17-desktop kernel: [ 18.315167] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.36, but
Sep 22 17:15:49 c17-desktop kernel: [ 18.315168] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 180.44. Please
Sep 22 17:15:49 c17-desktop kernel: [ 18.315168] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
Sep 22 17:15:49 c17-desktop kernel: [ 18.315169] NVRM: components have the same version.
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop acpid: client 3182[0:0] has disconnected
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop acpid: client connected from 3570[0:0]
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop kernel: [ 20.786084] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.36, but
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop kernel: [ 20.786085] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 180.44. Please
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop kernel: [ 20.786086] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop kernel: [ 20.786086] NVRM: components have the same version.
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpdate[3259]: adjust time server 206.212.242.132 offset -0.213516 sec
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3609]: ntpd 4.2.4p4@1.1520-o Wed May 13 21:10:45 UTC 2009 (1)
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: precision = 1.000 usec
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: Listening on interface #1 wildcard, ::#123 Disabled
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: Listening on interface #2 lo, ::1#123 Enabled
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: Listening on interface #3 eth1, fe80::21f:d0ff:fed4:8037#123 Enabled
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: Listening on interface #4 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: Listening on interface #5 eth1, 192.168.218.17#123 Enabled
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: kernel time sync status 0040
Sep 22 17:15:51 c17-desktop ntpd[3610]: frequency initialized -27.498 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
Sep 22 17:15:53 c17-desktop kernel: [ 22.977509] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Sep 22 17:15:54 c17-desktop acpid: client 3570[0:0] has disconnected
Sep 22 17:15:54 c17-desktop acpid: client connected from 3614[0:0]
Sep 22 17:15:54 c17-desktop kernel: [ 23.879093] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.36, but
Sep 22 17:15:54 c17-desktop kernel: [ 23.879094] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 180.44. Please
Sep 22 17:15:54 c17-desktop kernel: [ 23.879094] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
Sep 22 17:15:54 c17-desktop kernel: [ 23.879095] NVRM: components have the same version.
Sep 22 17:15:54 c17-desktop gdm[3174]: CRITICAL: gdm_config_value_get_bool: assertion `value->type == GDM_CONFIG_VALUE_BOOL' failed
Sep 22 17:15:57 c17-desktop acpid: client 3614[0:0] has disconnected
Sep 22 17:15:57 c17-desktop acpid: client connected from 3670[0:0]
Sep 22 17:16:03 c17-desktop kernel: [ 32.713652] mtrr: base(0xe5000000) is not aligned on a size(0xe00000) boundary
Sep 22 17:16:57 c17-desktop console-kit-daemon[2947]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/2946/environ: Failed to open file '/proc/2946/environ': No such file or directory
Sep 22 17:17:01 c17-desktop /USR/SBIN/CRON[3900]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Sep 22 17:17:33 c17-desktop init: tty4 main process (2547) killed by TERM signal
Sep 22 17:17:33 c17-desktop init: tty5 main process (2548) killed by TERM signal
Sep 22 17:17:33 c17-desktop init: tty1 main process (3557) killed by TERM signal
Sep 22 17:17:33 c17-desktop init: tty2 main process (2551) killed by TERM signal
Sep 22 17:17:33 c17-desktop init: tty3 main process (2553) killed by TERM signal
Sep 22 17:17:33 c17-desktop init: tty6 main process (2555) killed by TERM signal
Sep 22 17:17:33 c17-desktop console-kit-daemon[2947]: WARNING: Unable to activate console: No such device or address
Sep 22 17:17:52 c17-desktop exiting on signal 15

After running the --uninstall


Sep 22 17:20:44 c17-desktop kernel: [ 10.570330] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Sep 22 17:20:44 c17-desktop kernel: [ 10.570336] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Sep 22 17:20:44 c17-desktop kernel: [ 10.570560] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 180.44 Tue Mar 24 05:46:32 PST 2009

Obviously I'm still loading 180.44 someplace. Any suggestions as to what step I missed? Any chance that I need to update GRUB to point to a different kernel after doing this?

PS: Oh looks like my bad... It does say disable existing kernel, then restart, then start the install... I'm not SURE I did that... lemme try again.
PPS: Yup, It was the disable the 180.44 THEN RESTART before starting the nvidia install (have 190.32 running now).

[Kosimo]

New Beta release:

190.36

Changelog:


* Added support for X.Org xserver 1.6.99.901 (also known as 1.7 RC1) and 1.6.99.902 (1.7 RC2).
* Add a new OverscanCompensation NV-CONTROL attribute, available on GeForce 8 and higher. This option specifies the amount of overscan compensation to apply to the current mode. It is measured in raster pixels, i.e. pixels as specified in the current mode's backend timings.
* Updated nvidia-installer to detect newer Debian distributions that use /usr/lib32 instead of /emul/ia32-linux as the 32-bit library path.

[Arup]

On it right now since six hours, no crashes, have watched vdpau movies full screen, played some Tux Racer, absolutely no issues.

[Kosimo]

On it right now since six hours, no crashes, have watched vdpau movies full screen, played some Tux Racer, absolutely no issues.

Which drivers are you currently using?

[steev182]

Hi,

I tried installing the earlier 190. drivers yesterday on an amd64 version of karmic.

It gave errors for creating 32 bit extensions, but it succeeded in the kernel module.

When I came to restart, it wouldn't go into x, so I boot from USB and move my xorg.conf to xorg.conf.old and restart. I then run the installer package with --uninstall and restart, then I try the ubuntu provided restricted 185 driver, but this also doesn't work. It seems to load the nvidia module OK, but gives this error in xorg.0.log:


(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so: file too short
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (loader failed, 7)

What am I doing wrong to make the drivers not work for me?

nVidia 8400GS PCI-e (with an onboard ATi ES1000 which isn't being used, but can't be disabled in bios)

[AaronP_]

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so: file too short

That indicates that libglx.so got corrupted somehow, e.g. if there's filesystem corruption or the installer got killed partway through writing that file. I'd suggest reinstalling the driver.

[Buschbarber]

New Beta release:

190.36

Changelog:

I only see 190.32 beta for Linux. Where are you getting the 190.36?

[darco]

New Beta release:

190.36

Changelog:

Hows it looking on the .31 kernel?

darco

[Buschbarber]

I just installed 190.36 on my UE2.3 machine. I have an Nvidia 9800GTX+ card and I have had to deal with an Overscan problem for some time. There is a Slider, in this new driver, that allows me to Shrink the Desktop to fit the display on my 50" HDTV. I output DVI to HDMI on the HDTV at a res of 1920x1080.

[Kosimo]

I only see 190.32 beta for Linux. Where are you getting the 190.36?

Links at the first page of this thread

[Kosimo]

Hows it looking on the .31 kernel?

darco

Didn't try yet. Somebody?

[Buschbarber]

I just noticed that 190.18.05 references OpenGL and 190.36 does not. Does 190.36 support OpenGL?

[keiichidono]

Yeah but not the unreleased OpenGL 3.2 if I recall correctly.

[droidsys]

None of the above worked for me. This did.


ctrl-alt-f1

if you're using KDE

pkill kdm
.. on Gnome use

pkill gdm

Then...

pkill Xorg

install drivers


startx


Done

[darco]

What the heck is OpenCL?

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/735

The link talks about 190.29 being the latest...Im running 190.32 but no mention of OpenCL in these drivers.....

darco

[Buschbarber]

What the heck is OpenCL?

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/735

The link talks about 190.29 being the latest...Im running 190.32 but no mention of OpenCL in these drivers.....

darco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL

[darco]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL

that explains everything (not!)

darco

[Buschbarber]

that explains everything (not!)

darco

I did not really understand it either but I thought someone else could translate it into layman's terms.

[Buschbarber]

that explains everything (not!)

darco

I asked an IT friend of mine to explain, in laymen's terms, the purpose of OpenCL.

This was his response:

OpenCL seems to allow programs to tell the the GPU rather than the CPU to do cryptographic tasks which generally would chew a lot of CPU but GPU's are actually mor efficient at than CPU's.

[orlox]

I asked an IT friend of mine to explain, in laymen's terms, the purpose of OpenCL.

This was his response:

OpenCL seems to allow programs to tell the the GPU rather than the CPU to do cryptographic tasks which generally would chew a lot of CPU but GPU's are actually mor efficient at than CPU's.

As far as I know, it's not exclusively meant to be used in cryptographic tasks. It allows to use GPUs as additional processors for general tasks. I've seen some interesting videos on youtube, where openCL is used to perform real-time complex fluid simulations on not-so-high-end machines.

It seems it could become a very useful tool to perform scientific simulations on (relatively) low cost hardware.

[NightwishFan]

You cannot exceed your hardware. Only try to take advantage of it.

[cschoonover]

I went into ctrl+alt+f1
used the command CD DESKTOP
So that I could install
but it gave me and error as NO SUCH DIRECTORY EXISTS?

What did I do wrong... My screen freezes and I am hoping this new driver will work to fix the problem

[OpenGuard]

I went into ctrl+alt+f1
used the command CD DESKTOP
So that I could install
but it gave me and error as NO SUCH DIRECTORY EXISTS?

What did I do wrong... My screen freezes and I am hoping this new driver will work to fix the problem


cd $HOME/Desktop

[Skip Da Shu]

I went into ctrl+alt+f1
used the command CD DESKTOP
So that I could install
but it gave me and error as NO SUCH DIRECTORY EXISTS?

What did I do wrong... My screen freezes and I am hoping this new driver will work to fix the problem

It's


cd Desktop

or

cd /home/your-user-id-here/Desktop

IF you placed the NVIDIA~.sh file on your desktop. You can also just place it in your home directory and that's what you should default to when you do the Ctrl-Alt-F1.

[denis6902]

Hello,

I got a Zotac Mini Itx N330 ION too and i just cant install nvidia drivers on it.

I installed a fresh jaunty 32bit 2 times already, and nothing.

After running updates, i go to harware drivers, and doesnt seem that i have a graphic card as i shows nothing in there.

I tried following the tutorial over XBMC forums on setting up this, and when it gets to login screen is asks for usrname and password as usual then i get the following message:



XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering
install an appropriate graphics driver.

Please consult xbmc wiki for supported hardware
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title+Supported_hardware
I tried entering the commands on the post above me and it didnt install the beta 190 driver either.

How can i download this driver from (CRT+ALT+F1) because i cant get to graphical mode as it fails to log in.

And i dont want to have to re-reintall it all again.

Best Regards

Denis



edit:
here is my error:

(~/.xsession-errors file)



/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginnin session setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en=US
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput/xinput.d/default.
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Error: cound't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
xlib:extention "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Segmentation fault
What did i do wrong? I tried installing the (http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/185.18.36/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run) and i still get the same error then the one above.


NOTE: Running 4GB or DDR2 / ubuntu32bit jaunty main

[darco]

Kosimo, 190.40 (release candidate) for Linux x86/x86_64 released 10/16
I d/l and check them out on my Karmic OS (2.6.31.14)

darco

**edit** just finish playing about 10 mins of QuakeLive and these drivers are awesome...very responsive and good IQ

[Brackenn]

Hi. I followed the instructions as best I could, but when I restarted I get the error:
"Ubuntu running in low graphics mode.
the following error was encountered.
You may need to update your configuration to solve this.
(EE)NVIDIA(0):Failed to initialize the nvidia Kernel Module. Please see the system's kernel log for additional error messages and consult the NVIDIA readme for details
***Aborting***
(EE)Screens found, but none have a usable configuration."
In running Jaunty, And I'm trying to install a Gforce 9500gt. I downloaded the 185.18.36 from here===>http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_185.18.36.html
Any ideas?
---Brackenn.

[Skip Da Shu]

Hi. I followed the instructions as best I could, but when I restarted I get the error:
"Ubuntu running in low graphics mode.
the following error was encountered.
You may need to update your configuration to solve this.
(EE)NVIDIA(0):Failed to initialize the nvidia Kernel Module. Please see the system's kernel log for additional error messages and consult the NVIDIA readme for details
***Aborting***
(EE)Screens found, but none have a usable configuration."
In running Jaunty, And I'm trying to install a Gforce 9500gt. I downloaded the 185.18.36 from here===>http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_185.18.36.html
Any ideas?
---Brackenn.

If you're not doing CUDA number crunching on it why go with these drivers instead of the 180.44 drivers from the repository? The only reason I'm using 19x.xx drivers is for CUDA 2.2 support. Otherwise 180.44 in Ubuntu worked fine.

[Vorlander]

I've tried:
185.18.36 ( Karmic 9.10 default)
190.32
190.36
190.40
190.42 RC

None of them has worked for me on kernel 2.6.31.14 (Karmic Default)

always the Black Screen (Monitor power save mode) after initial white ubuntu loading Logo.

My only working combination right now is the prehistoric 173.14.20 on default Karmic kernel installed with envy tool

:(:(:(:(:(

[Buschbarber]

I've tried:
185.18.36 ( Karmic 9.10 default)
190.32
190.36
190.40
190.42 RC

None of them has worked for me on kernel 2.6.31.14 (Karmic Default)

always the Black Screen (Monitor power save mode) after initial white ubuntu loading Logo.

My only working combination right now is the prehistoric 173.14.20 on default Karmic kernel installed with envy tool

:(:(:(:(:(

I just installed Ubuntu 9.10. I then installed 190.36. It works fine with my 9800GTX+

[Vorlander]

I just installed Ubuntu 9.10. I then installed 190.36. It works fine with my 9800GTX+

Well....maybe is my Nvidia card , it's a 8600GTS......but I don't think so.....

[Buschbarber]

Well....maybe is my Nvidia card , it's a 8600GTS......but I don't think so.....

I stopped gdm and then did a sudo sh ./NVIDIA......run before rebooting.

[darco]

I used to have problems installing nvidia drivers but the key is to uninstall the original nvidia kernel, files first...since then, installing new drivers is a breeze. You dont have to uninstall for every new driver, just this one time...

system > administration > hardware > disable any nvidia drivers if any are enabled

run: sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx* nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings
run: sudo apt-get autoremove

crtl+alt+F1

login with normal account

stop gdm: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

sudo sh ./<driver location>/NVIDIA-Linux-xxxx-pkg2.run

start gdm: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

darco

[Kosimo]

Folks, 190.42 Stable RC Released!

Here the Changelog:


Release highlights since 190.40:

* Fixed a bug in the nvidia-settings disclaimer window for the GPU Clock Frequencies Coolbits page, such that the "Accept" button is selectable when the desktop is so tall that the entire disclaimer can be viewed without scrolling.
* Fixed a recent regression that caused the Xinerama option to not be set properly in the X configuration file when saving and merging from the nvidia-settings X Server Display Configuration page.
* Fixed a resource leak in VDPAU's blit-based presentation queue. This bug limited the number of presentation queue objects that could be created and destroyed in a single application instance, and hence could limit the number of streams that could be displayed and/or the number of iterations of "loop" playback.
* Fixed a power management regression that prevented some notebooks and systems with integrated GeForce 8 and 9 series GPUs from suspending.
* Fixed a regression that caused TV-OUT controls to be unavailable on some GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.

Release highlights since 190.36:

* Added support for OpenGL 3.2.
* Added support for NVIDIA Quadro SDI Capture, part of the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
o GeForce G102M
o GeForce GT 220
o GeForce G210
o GeForce G210M
o GeForce GT 230M
o GeForce GT 240M
o GeForce GTS 250M
o GeForce GTS 260M
* Updated the NVIDIA X driver to allow, on GeForce 8 or greater GPUs, more modes to validate on digital display devices whose EDIDs report very constrained HorizSync or VertRefresh ranges.
* Fixed a randomly occuring X server crash caused by the PixmapCache option.
* Increased the allowed amount of overscan compensation from 100 to 200.
* On GPUs with VDPAU feature set B, VDPAU's handling of some corrupted or incorrectly formatted H.264 and MPEG streams has been improved.
* Fixed a memory allocation problem with pre-GeForce 8 GPUs that caused GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap clients (e.g., Compiz, KDE 4) to display incorrect contents.



Links at the first page.

[Vorlander]

I used to have problems installing nvidia drivers but the key is to uninstall the original nvidia kernel, files first...since then, installing new drivers is a breeze. You dont have to uninstall for every new driver, just this one time...

system > administration > hardware > disable any nvidia drivers if any are enabled

run: sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx* nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings
run: sudo apt-get autoremove

crtl+alt+F1

login with normal account

stop gdm: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

sudo sh ./<driver location>/NVIDIA-Linux-xxxx-pkg2.run

start gdm: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

darco

I tried this way alkready without luck.....

I can't understand what is happening here :confused::confused::confused:

[darco]

Are you saying YES to each step in the nvidia installer?
Also check the nvidia installer log..Administration\Log File Viewer
for any dupe entries...


darco

[Vorlander]

Are you saying YES to each step in the nvidia installer?
Also check the nvidia installer log..Administration\Log File Viewer
for any dupe entries...


darco



nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Sat Oct 24 05:31:48 2009
installer version: 1.0.7

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : true
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
no X server check : false
no cc version check : false
force tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> There is no NVIDIA driver currently installed.


This is when I uninstall every NVidia driver, and then use envyng tools to install the only driver that works for me right now:
173.14.20

[Kosimo]

Folks:

190.42 has become Stable. Links at the first page.

[Buschbarber]

Folks:

190.42 has become Stable. Links at the first page.

I just installed Karmic Koala 9.10 Final and the Nvidia 190.42 seems to be working fine.

[Vorlander]

Ihave still the same problem.
If I cahnge my Nvidia 173.xx to any other drivers , the everything works Ok (I can login to terminal or by SSH and see all is running) except for the X....my monitor goes black and in Power Save mode :(:(

[darco]

Ihave still the same problem.
If I cahnge my Nvidia 173.xx to any other drivers , the everything works Ok (I can login to terminal or by SSH and see all is running) except for the X....my monitor goes black and in Power Save mode :(:(

Check to see if your xorg.conf is being dumped into the / (root) folder. That happened to me once and using a live-cd, I moved it to the proper folder, rebooted and all was good.

good luck

darco

[Skip Da Shu]

Folks:

190.42 has become Stable. Links at the first page.
Thanx Much!

[klemperal]

Since I updated to the latest Nvidia drivers using this thread (great guide by the way) I can no longer drag launchers to my second x screen--I used to be able to do this without xinerama enabled. Is there some way around this without having to enable xinerama or use twinview?

[Keymone]

i did everything as stated in the first post previously getting rid of all nvidia stuff that was already installed but instead of kdm i'm logged into console whith black screen flashing sometimes(it's probably kdm trying to start but fails)

after i remove xorg.conf everything works fine(but without nvidia drivers loaded of course)

can somebody help?

[Skip Da Shu]

i did everything as stated in the first post previously getting rid of all nvidia stuff that was already installed but instead of kdm i'm logged into console whith black screen flashing sometimes(it's probably kdm trying to start but fails)

after i remove xorg.conf everything works fine(but without nvidia drivers loaded of course)

can somebody help? It sounds like you are at the point where you would ctrl-alt-F1 and sudo sh NVIDIA-.....sh to install the current drivers with the option of letting the script build you an xorg.conf.

[cubdukat]

Do these steps apply to Mythbuntu as well? I would like to install the 185 driver so that it can take advantage of the VDPAU features, but the last time I tried it by enabling the restricted driver, I ended up with it flashing incessantly at login without me being able to stop it. In short, I had to reinstall everything, and I would really like to avoid this, seeing as it took me eight reinstalls to get the system to work properly.

I am really losing patience with both NVidia and Ubuntu with these issues. I realize that all distros seem to have issues with NVidia drivers, but it seems to me that Ubuntu has a disproportionate share of them. The only reason I'm not using a different Myth distro is that they're even worse.

If I could dump NVidia I would, but sadly, ATI doesn't make a card that can play games really fast and only take up one slot. I need a card like that because of the mobo's layout; I need to have both x1 PCI-e slots free.

I have been a Ubuntu user for years, but they're starting to slip a bit.

[Buschbarber]

Do these steps apply to Mythbuntu as well? I would like to install the 185 driver so that it can take advantage of the VDPAU features, but the last time I tried it by enabling the restricted driver, I ended up with it flashing incessantly at login without me being able to stop it. In short, I had to reinstall everything, and I would really like to avoid this, seeing as it took me eight reinstalls to get the system to work properly.

I am really losing patience with both NVidia and Ubuntu with these issues. I realize that all distros seem to have issues with NVidia drivers, but it seems to me that Ubuntu has a disproportionate share of them. The only reason I'm not using a different Myth distro is that they're even worse.

If I could dump NVidia I would, but sadly, ATI doesn't make a card that can play games really fast and only take up one slot. I need a card like that because of the mobo's layout; I need to have both x1 PCI-e slots free.

I have been a Ubuntu user for years, but they're starting to slip a bit.

Have you tried installing Ubuntu on another drive and then immediately installing the Nvidia drivers before you do anything else? At least that would help you rule out other factors that might be preventing the Nvidia drivers from working properly.

I went through a similar experience to yours and I was finally able to get the drivers to install properly. I have a 9800GTx+ PCIe card on an ASUS P5Q mobo.

I have an HP MCE 7060n 3Ghz P4 that has an Onboard Intel video adapter and an Nvidia 8400GS PCI card. I have never been able to get the Nvidia drivers to install because I cannot get Ubuntu to boot unless the BIOS is set to Onboard, for the video. I cannot choose PCI in the BIOS. I have finally given up on that PC and built my new one.

[NightwishFan]

This is not really important, since I do not rely on the new drivers, however I have an issue.

When I install the AMD64 version of the driver, everything works well. The option to install 32-bit compatibility drivers, which I believe I need for wine, says that a 32-bit library did not pass the check, but the installation worked. 32 games in Wine crash, however.

[Arup]

This is not really important, since I do not rely on the new drivers, however I have an issue.

When I install the AMD64 version of the driver, everything works well. The option to install 32-bit compatibility drivers, which I believe I need for wine, says that a 32-bit library did not pass the check, but the installation worked. 32 games in Wine crash, however.

That warning is normal for ncurses based nvidia driver. However bear in mind, some apps after install will need a removal and re-install of drivers to get the correct symbolic link for the x32 drivers.

[coldReactive]

By the way, this howto won't work for Hardy Heron and the nvidia GTS 250, the nvidia propietary driver just boots you into low graphics.

Edit: I had to install ia32-libs for the 32-bit opengl compat. then I had to do nvidia-xconfig again after reinstalling.

[mocha]

Do these steps apply to Mythbuntu as well? I would like to install the 185 driver so that it can take advantage of the VDPAU features, but the last time I tried it by enabling the restricted driver, I ended up with it flashing incessantly at login without me being able to stop it.

Are you installing the 185 driver from the official repo and upgrading from a previous kernel? This is a known bug that should be fixed soon. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+bug/474917

[sledge73]

Gotta mark this thread so I don't loose it again. Thanks made it all work correctly!!

[Kosimo]

Gotta mark this thread so I don't loose it again. Thanks made it all work correctly!!

Nice to know that this thread can still help somebody! ;)

[Buschbarber]

I just installed Ubuntu Ultimate 2.4 based upon Ubuntu 9.10. Once again, the Nvidia 190.42 drivers installed without a hitch and are working perfectly.

[Kosimo]

Folks

New Legacy drivers with X.Org 1.7 support have been released

173.14.22 (legacy,prerelease) for Linux x86/x86-64 released
Release highlights:

* Added support for X.Org xserver 1.7.
* Updated nvidia-installer to detect newer Debian distributions that use /usr/lib32 instead of /emul/ia32-linux as the 32-bit library path.


96.43.14 (legacy,prerelease) for Linux x86/x86-64 released
Release highlights:

* Added support for X.Org xserver 1.7.
* Updated nvidia-installer to detect newer Debian distributions that use /usr/lib32 instead of /emul/ia32-linux as the 32-bit library path.





Links at the first page.

[Buschbarber]

I downloaded 190.42 on Oct 24, before it was Certified on Oct 31. Is there any difference between the file I downloaded then and the one available on the Nvidia site Now?

[AaronP_]

I downloaded 190.42 on Oct 24, before it was Certified on Oct 31. Is there any difference between the file I downloaded then and the one available on the Nvidia site Now?
No.

[Buschbarber]

No.

Thank you for the quick reply!!

[rprenen]

I had trouble stopping the GDM display manager. Rebooted pc and went for the recovery mode in the grub menu. Installed run package from NVIDIA from the prompt (I had changed the file-mode in 'runnable' earlier in GNOME'S file manager). Worked also..

[blackened07]

Ubuntu 9.10, 9.04 can't install properly nvidia 190.xx driver
hello guys, i'm having this little problem, I just bought this sony laptop
VPCCW17FX, thath comes with nvidia 210m chipset

I tried adding to the /etc/apt/sources.list and installing the driver from the terminal and everything seems to work fine, until y reboot and goes to my log in screen, the screen goes totally to black, like turned off, anyway I tried from system/administration/hardware drivers and enabling the 185, and the 190 driver will do the same thing.

I also tried downloading the driver from de nvidia webpage, and installed, but the same thing, the screen goes totally black, I can log on in my ubuntu, but I can't see a thing.

I'm running ubuntu 9.10 amd 64, ( I also tried in 9.04 i386 ) but the same thing, I don't know how to look for info, since I can't find too many on the net, Obviuously I'm missing sth, but don't have a clue what it is, any help, or tip would be really appreciated

Thanks in advance.

[darco]

Running Mint 7 x64 w/190.42 drivers. When I make a change in the X server settings (contrast/brightness), it saves but on the next reboot it goes back to the default settings. As soon as I re-open Nvidia X server settings, the change kicks in?
How do I go about saving the settings on reboot w/o having to open nvidia x server?

thxs

darco

*edit...nm...figured it out...*

[singedwings]

I am having the same problems as blackened07. I have a sli setup and always had problems with previous versions of ubuntu and nvidia installs. However in the past I was always able to solve the problems by adding the Busid of the first graphics card to xorg.conf. This time no joy any help appreciated.


I was wrong, putting the Busid in did work. My replacement motherboard numbers the PCI slots in reverse and now that I have worked that out it works.

[ratcheer]

I have defeated myself with my own foresight. I found a new Linux kernel in Update Manager. So, I remembered all the times I installed a new Kernel and lost the video driver and I thought, "If I unstall the driver before I install the new kernel, I won't have that problem". So, I uninstalled it.

So now, I needed to go back to the GUI to re-run Update Manager. So, I tried to restart gdm and, boo!, I am back at the dreaded blinking login prompt.

I thought that with the nVidia driver uninstalled, it would default to the standard VGA driver. Obviously, I am mistaken. How is this supposed to work? What is the correct workflow to install a new kernel when using a 3rd party video driver?

Thanks,
Tim

[ratcheer]

I always panic a little when I cannot log in. But, I calmed down and thought my way through it. I rebooted in Recovery Mode. Then I ran "sudo apt-get upgrade" from the command prompt. This upgraded all but 5 packages. Then I reinstalled nVidia 190.42 and, finally, rebooted normally. I am back in business.

But, with one small problem - the five packages that did not upgrade were the new kernel and associated updates. So, I am back where I started, except for the other updates that were successfully installed.

Should I just install the new kernel from Update Manager and reinstall nVidia when it craps out? I would like to have a clean, smooth process.

Tim

[Kosimo]

Guys!


195.22 has been released!!

Here the changelog:


* Enhanced the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue to provide values of "first_presentation_time" that have less jitter.
* Add support for R16F and RG32F GLXFBConfigs when using GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.
* Added support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Stereo on Linux with Quadro GPUs. See the "Stereo" X configuration documentation in the README for details.
* Added support for A2BGR10 32-bit GLX visuals on 30-bit X screens. These allow some level of window transparency when using 30-bit visuals with GLX and Composite, but they may cause problems with older X servers and/or applications. ARGB GLX visuals can be disabled by adding:

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "False"

to the X configuration file.
* Fixed a problem that caused DisplayPort devices to behave incorrectly when DPMS power saving mode was triggered.
* Updated VDPAU to improve thread concurrency. See the README for details.
* Altered NVIDIA X driver behavior in the case that no display devices are connected to the GPU. Previously, in this case, the NVIDIA X driver would pretend a CRT was connected to the GPU. Now, the NVIDIA X driver will not automatically pretend that any CRTs are connected. If the X driver does not detect any connected display devices, the X server will fail to start.

To restore the old behavior, use the ConnectedMonitor X configuration option; e.g.,

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"

Alternatively, if display is not desired, Quadro and Tesla GPU users can enable "NoScanout" mode, which bypasses any mode timing validation or use of display devices; this is configured with:

Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"

* Disabled software cursors when the driver is operating in "no scanout" (UseDisplayDevice "none") mode. The software cursor image is not visible in remote desktop applications or screenshots anyway, so having software cursor enabled was unnecessary.
* Changed glXSwapBuffers() behavior for a pixmap such that it is now a no-op in the direct rendering case in order to match the indirect case and comply with the GLX spec. Previously, calling glXSwapBuffers() on pixmaps in the direct case would swap the pixmap's buffers if the pixmap was double buffered.
* Modified the installation location and names of internal VDPAU libraries to conform to conventions and Debian packaging guidelines. New versions of libvdpau expect this layout. Compatibility with old versions of libvdpau is maintained with symlinks.
* Fixed a bug that could cause errors in graphical applications run after a previous application using VDPAU and OpenGL. This behaviour was observed when running Gwenole Beauchesne's hwdecode-demos application.
* Modified vdpau.h to increment VDPAU_VERSION, to reflect the fact that new features have been added in the past. Also, add the new define VDPAU_INTERFACE_VERSION.
* Fixed a periodic temporary hang in the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue.
* Fixed a problem that caused resolution limitations or corruption on certain DisplayPort devices such as the Apple 24" Cinema display or some DisplayPort to VGA adapters.
* Disabled the UseEvents option for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs due to a problem that causes occasional short hangs. It will be re-enabled when that bug has been tracked down and fixed.
* VDPAU now allows multiple streams to be decoded at once, without the need to set any environment variables.





Links at the first page of this thread.

Good luck!

[Buschbarber]

I ran into my first install issue in quite some time, with 195.22. I was running 190.42. After installing 195.22, it rebooted into a blinking TTY Login Prompt and was not accurately accepting Input. I rebooted into the Recovery Mode, ran sudo nvidia-uninstall and then reinstalled 195.22. Now, it is working perfectly.

[WildeBeest]

This has worked for me every time I tried a new version.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1125400&highlight=command+line

[gspat]

how does upgrading to 195 affect nvidia-glx? I was having issues with stuff not working (logon prompt only) after I installed, so i followed examples and installed the 190 driver, but programs running opengl would error out with an error about not starting and missing a .so file.

I installed nvidia-glx-185 and things work better now, but there was a warning about a driver number mismatch

there is no nvidia-glx-190, or nvidia-glx-195... should I be overly concerned?

[mocha]

programs running opengl would error out with an error about not starting and missing a .so file.


There is a little something missing from all these nvidia HOWTOs. Sometimes after xserver package updates OpenGL stuff stops working. This is becuase the symlink /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so gets broken for some reason, probably becuase the package manger doesn't see the nvidia binary driver installed.

If you have OpenGL problems just check the directory /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/ and make sure there is a file called libglx.so symlinked to libglx.so.190.42, or whatever driver you have installed (libglx.so.195.xx, etc...)

[toupeiro]

Sorry if this was mentioned earlier in this thread, but How well is DKM at addressing these beta drivers when kernel updates are done? In the beginning, it was pretty raw.. I would like to recommend to some people I casually support to use a beta driver for some video issues they are having, but I'm not up to doing so if its going to break their update/upgrade processes.

[LWJ]

Help... I am new to Linux. I have a dell poweredge machine with the ATI graphics card on the system board. I installed a Nvidia 6200 to run windows. When I attempted to install Ubuntu while the Nvidia card was in the machine, it would hang up. So I installed it using only the ATI graphics and the Nvidia card removed. The boot loader comes up ok with the ATI graphics and will load Ubuntu or Windows, but Windows does not do well with ATI. If I install the Nvidia card Ubuntu will not boot, I have to power the machine off and start over. I have read the procedure to install Nvidia drivers, but those procedures assumes the Nvidia card is installed when trying to install. anyone have any suggestions?

[Buschbarber]

Help... I am new to Linux. I have a dell poweredge machine with the ATI graphics card on the system board. I installed a Nvidia 6200 to run windows. When I attempted to install Ubuntu while the Nvidia card was in the machine, it would hang up. So I installed it using only the ATI graphics and the Nvidia card removed. The boot loader comes up ok with the ATI graphics and will load Ubuntu or Windows, but Windows does not do well with ATI. If I install the Nvidia card Ubuntu will not boot, I have to power the machine off and start over. I have read the procedure to install Nvidia drivers, but those procedures assumes the Nvidia card is installed when trying to install. anyone have any suggestions?

This may have nothing to do with your problem, but I have an HP m7060n P4 MCE machine that came with an Onboard Integrated Intel graphics adapter. I put in an Nvidia 6200 and later replaced it with an Nvidia 8400. Ubuntu would not boot if I set the Graphics Option, in the Bios, to PCI. It would only boot if the Graphics Option, in the Bios, were set to Onboard. I tried several distros of Ubuntu and Mandriva. They did not like a PC mobo with Onboard Graphics.

[LWJ]

This may have nothing to do with your problem, but I have an HP m7060n P4 MCE machine that came with an Onboard Integrated Intel graphics adapter. I put in an Nvidia 6200 and later replaced it with an Nvidia 8400. Ubuntu would not boot if I set the Graphics Option, in the Bios, to PCI. It would only boot if the Graphics Option, in the Bios, were set to Onboard. I tried several distros of Ubuntu and Mandriva. They did not like a PC mobo with Onboard Graphics.


Unfortunately I am not able to disable the pci port in the bios of this machine. So I have to remove the card to get it to boot.

[Buschbarber]

Unfortunately I am not able to disable the pci port in the bios of this machine. So I have to remove the card to get it to boot.

Windows would boot with the Nvidia driver no matter what Bios setting I chose, however, I could not access the Grub Menu unless I plugged a monitor into the Onboard Intel Graphics Adapter.

With the 6200 card, I was able to install the Nvidia Restricted drivers and even though the Bios was set to Onboard, half way through the Boot sequence, the Ubuntu Nvidia driver kicked in and Ubuntu would load with the Nvidia driver.

When Ubuntu version 9 came out, I could not do that anymore so I built a Newer, Faster, Quad Core machine with an Asus P5Q mobo and Ubuntu boots perfectly.

[Skip Da Shu]

Help... I am new to Linux. I have a dell poweredge machine with the ATI graphics card on the system board. I installed a Nvidia 6200 to run windows. When I attempted to install Ubuntu while the Nvidia card was in the machine, it would hang up. So I installed it using only the ATI graphics and the Nvidia card removed. The boot loader comes up ok with the ATI graphics and will load Ubuntu or Windows, but Windows does not do well with ATI. If I install the Nvidia card Ubuntu will not boot, I have to power the machine off and start over. I have read the procedure to install Nvidia drivers, but those procedures assumes the Nvidia card is installed when trying to install. anyone have any suggestions?

I didn't believe this when I first read it but just happen to have a PowerEdge 600sc on my bench. I put a Nvidia FX5200 in the PCI slot and rebooted... just black screens and never comes up. Off to do some googling on this. No options in BIOS that I see around turning on-board off so I have to assume there's a conflict of some sort.

Ubuntu v9.10

UPDATE: take a look a this (http://www.scheerfun.org/techie/dell600sc/).

[ratcheer]

I went to the nVidia web site and they still have 190.42 as the Linux version. Is 195.22 a beta or something?

Tim

[Vadi]

I went to the nVidia web site and they still have 190.42 as the Linux version. Is 195.22 a beta or something?

Tim

yep

[Buschbarber]

I went to the nVidia web site and they still have 190.42 as the Linux version. Is 195.22 a beta or something?

Tim

If you go to the first page of this thread, it is usually updated with the latest driver links (Beta and Released)

[ratcheer]

Thanks, Vadi and Buschbarber. I will stick with the release version. The post where it was first mentioned said, "195.22 has been released". To me, that is different from saying it is a new beta version.

Tim

[The Bright Side]

Hey guys,

I just installed Karmic on my laptop and am trying to install the 190 driver, but when I try to disable GDM using "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop", I get an error message:


Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8) utility, e.g. service gdm stop

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) utility, e.g. stop gdm

Well none of these work. How can I stop gdm now? It used to work splendidly in 9.04...

Thanks!



EDIT: Never mind, worked!!

[ratcheer]

I messed around a bit based on that message, too. What I finally figured out was that the gdm was actually stopped by the init.d command and it was just suggesting a new, "improved" way to stop it. So, it was more of a warning than an error, but they make it sound like an error.

Tim

[The Bright Side]

Yeah that's the same thing I found! Thanks for confirming.

[Buschbarber]

I was prompted, today, by Update Manager, to install a number of Security Updates as well as other Updates, including GDM. I am running UE 2.4. After Reboot, it came up in Low Graphics Mode. I exited to the tty Login prompt and stopped GDM. I tried to reinstall Nvidia 195.22 but I was informed that the X Server was still running. I thought that stopping GDM would allow me to install new or existing drivers. I rebooted again and this time went to the tty Login prompt, directly. I was able to reinstall the 190.22 drivers successfully and Login normally.

Is this the process I will have to use each time certain types of Updates are applied? If so, which ones should I be looking for?

[nardis_Miles1]

I have been looking for a good thread on which to ask a general question. I am using an nvidia graphics card (GeForce 8400 GS) on an athlon 64 5000+ dual core box. I am using an application that takes advantage of 3-d acceleration. At this point, the speed is just bearable. I am thinking of upgrading the graphics card and I'd like to know if I would see a significant difference in speed on the same box. That is, with the same OS, machine, and driver, does a better card (greater graphics memory, higher clock speeds, different software) actually perform better? Does anyone have experience with this?

Art Edwards

[l-x-l]

I was prompted, today, by Update Manager, to install a number of Security Updates as well as other Updates, including GDM. I am running UE 2.4. After Reboot, it came up in Low Graphics Mode. I exited to the tty Login prompt and stopped GDM. I tried to reinstall Nvidia 195.22 but I was informed that the X Server was still running. I thought that stopping GDM would allow me to install new or existing drivers. I rebooted again and this time went to the tty Login prompt, directly. I was able to reinstall the 190.22 drivers successfully and Login normally.

Is this the process I will have to use each time certain types of Updates are applied? If so, which ones should I be looking for?

The same thing happened to me today. I thought I broke Ubuntu ;) (again). BTW... has anyone else noticed that after installing ver 190.xxx that it doesn't show up on the GUI Hardware Drivers prompt? It works fine though.

[ratcheer]

The same thing happened to me today. I thought I broke Ubuntu ;) (again). BTW... has anyone else noticed that after installing ver 190.xxx that it doesn't show up on the GUI Hardware Drivers prompt? It works fine though.

Ever since upgrading to 9.10, I have not been able to see my nVidia driver in the Hardware Drivers GUI. The GUI does show some older drivers, but not the one I am successfully using. I am using 190.42, but it shows 173 and 185.

Tim

[Buschbarber]

Ever since upgrading to 9.10, I have not been able to see my nVidia driver in the Hardware Drivers GUI. The GUI does show some older drivers, but not the one I am successfully using. I am using 190.42, but it shows 173 and 185.

Tim

That is normal. Ever since I started using drivers that I downloaded and installed, they never show up there. There is a reason why that is, but it escapes me at the moment.

[ratcheer]

That is normal. Ever since I started using drivers that I downloaded and installed, they never show up there. There is a reason why that is, but it escapes me at the moment.

They did show up there in 9.04.

Tim

[northwestuntu]

finally they added the overscan option :D

[bigfootnmd]

I have two desktops running 9.10. Both have the Geoforce 8400 graphics card. On my system which was upgraded from 9.04 I have the Ubuntu restricted Nvida drivers on my machine. However, on they are not present at all on the other machine.

With my House-mate's PC I had issues with the 9.10 image (which I posted about on this forum). I found the solution on this site and installed 9.04 and then upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10. After the upgrade was completed the machine booted to a flashing command prompt. Searches on this site led me to the solution of copying the xorg.conf.failsafe file to the xorg.conf.
So that is where this machine stands now. Mind you my House-mate seems happy with his system (although he does miss all the real arcade games that he bought and download, he is playing some on line).

So, the question here is two fold. 1. Should I even try to install the NVidia drivers at all? And 2, if I do what approach to take?

Thank you in advance.

[Kralnor]

I don't know this is the same or not but I was told that before updating your drivers you need to first sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
then remove the current drivers by sudo sh NVIDIA-xxx.run --uninstall, it will tell you it will do its best to uninstall the drivers. Go ahead and press ctrl+alt+F1 and log in, once that is done type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop now just do the samething you did before and they should work.

Thanks. I had trouble installing the latest nVidia drivers because of missing linux-headers. Running
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) before invoking
sudo sh ./NVIDIA-xxx.run fixed the problem.

[Kosimo]

Folks:

195.53 Pre-Release is here!

Changelog:


* Modified the installation location and names of internal VDPAU libraries to conform to conventions and Debian packaging guidelines. New versions of libvdpau expect this layout. Compatibility with old versions of libvdpau is maintained with symlinks.
* Fixed a bug that could cause errors in graphical applications run after a previous application using VDPAU and OpenGL. This behaviour was observed when running Gwenole Beauchesne's hwdecode-demos application.
* Modified vdpau.h to increment VDPAU_VERSION, to reflect the fact that new features have been added in the past. Also, add the new define VDPAU_INTERFACE_VERSION.
* Fixed a periodic temporary hang in the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue.
* Fixed a problem that caused resolution limitations or corruption on certain DisplayPort devices such as the Apple 24" Cinema display or some DisplayPort to VGA adapters.
* Disabled the UseEvents option for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs due to a problem that causes occasional short hangs. It will be re-enabled when that bug has been tracked down and fixed.
* VDPAU now allows multiple streams to be decoded at once, without the need to set any environment variables.



Links in the first page of this thread.

Good luck!

[Janneman27]

Great! It works perfectly!

I also notice a quick Nvidia splash screen after GRUB loads...is it possible to turn that of somewhere?

[Buschbarber]

Great! It works perfectly!

I also notice a quick Nvidia splash screen after GRUB loads...is it possible to turn that of somewhere?

I have seen references, in this thread, to procedures for blocking the Nvidia Splash Screen.

[Janneman27]

Thanx

[Slikgman]

If you go to the first page of this thread, it is usually updated with the latest driver links (Beta and Released)

There is a new certified release 190.53 on Nvidia home page Dated 12-16-2009 for 64bit. Someone should check on updating the 1st page.

Great work on updating this Thread, I am bookmarking it for future updates! :)

[BDPNA]

I was prompted, today, by Update Manager, to install a number of Security Updates as well as other Updates, including GDM. I am running UE 2.4. After Reboot, it came up in Low Graphics Mode. I exited to the tty Login prompt and stopped GDM. I tried to reinstall Nvidia 195.22 but I was informed that the X Server was still running. I thought that stopping GDM would allow me to install new or existing drivers. I rebooted again and this time went to the tty Login prompt, directly. I was able to reinstall the 190.22 drivers successfully and Login normally.

Is this the process I will have to use each time certain types of Updates are applied? If so, which ones should I be looking for?

I actually had to do this same thing to get 190.53 to install on my system. However, although it looked like the install worked, now when I reboot, I am getting just a blank screen. Nothing more. It looks like my monitor is getting a signal since it's not going into sleep mode, but I just see a blank screen. Can anyone help? Anything I can do/check or grep in a log if I boot into the recovery console that might shed some light?

Thanks for any help. First time I ever had to do this when upgrading the drivers.

[Buschbarber]

If I boot Ubuntu 9.10 and the X server has been hosed, I usually do an Ctrl-Alt-F1, login, do a sudo service gdm stop, and reinstall the video driver.

A couple of times, lately, I was not able to Reinstall the video driver or it would boot up with a box containing a white backround and four radio buttons. I was able to boot into the recovery console and install the video driver from there. Next time a booted everything was OK, video wise.

I have not had to Uninstall the old video driver before installing the new one.

[BDPNA]

If I boot Ubuntu 9.10 and the X server has been hosed, I usually do an Ctrl-Alt-F1, login, do a sudo service gdm stop, and reinstall the video driver.

A couple of times, lately, I was not able to Reinstall the video driver or it would boot up with a box containing a white backround and four radio buttons. I was able to boot into the recovery console and install the video driver from there. Next time a booted everything was OK, video wise.

I have not had to Uninstall the old video driver before installing the new one.

Hmmm, sounds a little different than what I am experiencing. I was getting that box about low graphics mode before I hand-upgraded the driver...Now if I try to boot into a non-recovery console (any kernel) I don't even get that far. Can't even get a picture. Screen goes black a few seconds after I select my kernel and that's that.

I'm doing this on a hacked mac mini, which could be part of the problem. The weirdest thing is I just tried to force-boot it from a Karmic installation CD and it's doing the same thing. Really weird now.

[jonnyg01]

I've been always disappointed with all video drivers we had in linux, (AMD or nVidia) Very ugly 2D performance (specially nvidia) and tons of issues when mixing compiz and 3D or Video. It's been almost a week since I've installed nVidia BETA drivers 180.06 which includes for the first time ever Pure Video on Linux. I am impressed with the general performance and stability, compiz have never been that smooth, video has an amazing quality even when I'm moving my desktop cube, any 3D app can perfectly run with no issues or performance problems. In one word. IMPRESSIVE. I hope that this is not the final step but only the first one of a new nVidia drivers series that can finally put Linux at the same level than Windows Drivers stability and performance. I would like to ask you guys if anyone else is using 180.XX drivers, let's talk about how you feel with them!

How to install nVidia drivers in Linux:

It is very easy and you can do it by just following this steps. Remember to uninstall any previous version! If you are using the proprietary hardware tool in Ubuntu you should disable the current driver first and then restart your computer before you start. THIS IS MANDATORY!

Note: Follow this instructions at your own risk

1) Download the driver (for example in your desktop) - Get the pkg1, Right Click, Save As...

2) Enter in a real terminal mode: CONTROL + ALT + F1, then login (don't do it now as you wouldn't be able to keep reading)

3) Go to your desktop:
cd Desktop4) Turn off X.org/GDM (Gnome Display Manager):
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop


this is where it is now stuck and reads
"rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8) utility, e.g. service gdm stop

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) utility, e.g. stop gdm gdm stop/waiting"

ps. im on the internet on a laptop right now waiting and looking at my desktop screen while it shows this...

Many Thanks. Happy Holidays.
Jonny G

[ratcheer]

But, it still worked to stop your gdm. It is just recommending that you do it differently, in the future.

Tim

[jonnyg01]

Thank you Tim. It's installing right now!!!

[jonnyg01]

so i had reboot my computer, all seemed well, but now it's saying things i've never read on it before about USB devices not accepting addresses and $h1t....I'm getting too frustrated...

any way,

[jonnyg01]

afternthat happened i was able to type "reboot" [enter] and it did just that, went past BIOS and went black..not shiny off black, but terminal black.

[jonnyg01]

Okay. Sorry about that one...I kicked the key board and woke up...
But it's stuck on
"BusyBox v1.13.3 (ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash)"

Where the normal (i dont know what its called but it shows up with your name when you start terminal you know??), it reads
"(initramfs) [(blinking underscore)]

and I think it's blinking pretty fast.

[ratcheer]

This is all too weird, jonnyg. The fast blinking cursor makes me think the video driver is not installed, properly, but I can't be sure.

If you are running grub2, reboot and try holding the Shift key just as grub is starting. This should bring you to the grub menu, where you can choose to boot in recovery mode. If you can get to that point, reinstall the video driver. Make sure that when it asks, you choose to automatically configure xorg. Then, when the installation completes, reboot, normally.

I hope this helps.

Tim

[philip5]

If anyone is interested in newer Nvidia drivers (especially for Karmic) I have packages ready for both the 190-series and the new 195-beta series on my repo at Launchpad. Look for the packages named nvidia-glx-190 (at the moment 190.42) and nvidia-glx-195 (at the moment 195.30). There are also a bunch of other goodies on my repo.

Check it out at: https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra

If you install updated Nvidia drivers like this the easiest way to get all the libs and drivers to reload is making a reboot after updating.

Regards,

Philip

[VastOne]

If anyone is interested in newer Nvidia drivers (especially for Karmic) I have packages ready for both the 190-series and the new 195-beta series on my repo at Launchpad. Look for the packages named nvidia-glx-190 (at the moment 190.42) and nvidia-glx-195 (at the moment 195.30). There are also a bunch of other goodies on my repo.

Check it out at: https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra

If you install updated Nvidia drivers like this the easiest way to get all the libs and drivers to reload is making a reboot after updating.

Regards,

Philip

Are you saying I can load the nvidia-glx-195-dev drivers from Synaptic, reboot and be done or are you saying that once I dload and run the 195.run I will have everything I need so that it will install the kernel support?

[tad1073]

can't install nvidia-settings

using 195.30 w/9.10 64 bit


$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
[sudo] password for thomas:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for thomas:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-settings: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3) but 1.28.0-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

[philip5]

Are you saying I can load the nvidia-glx-195-dev drivers from Synaptic, reboot and be done or are you saying that once I dload and run the 195.run I will have everything I need so that it will install the kernel support?
I'm saying that if you use my repo (which have a bunch of other stuff besides nvidia drivers) and add it as source you can from i.e synaptic install nvidia-glx-195 and after that reboot. Then you will have working nvidia 195.30 drivers on your system if you run Karmic. All the compiling and setting up the drivers are done by the package. Also handles it self if you update your kernel etc. This is as my packages use dkms in the same way as the nvidia drivers in ubuntu have done since Intrepid. (you don't need the -dev packages of you don't have to build some source code yourself that need nvidia driver headers)

You might also want to install nvidia-195-libvdpau if you want vdpau support that beside the software in it self need hardware from nvidia 8800 series or newer to de facto work otherwise there is no benefit.

Just remember that the nvidia 195.xx drivers are still beta but so far works great for me.

If you use my packages then you don't need any bin.run-files from nvidia that also have to be re-run everytime you get a kernel update which my packages handle for you.

[VastOne]

I'm saying that if you use my repo (which have a bunch of other stuff besides nvidia drivers) and add it as source you can from i.e synaptic install nvidia-glx-195 and after that reboot. Then you will have working nvidia 195.30 drivers on your system if you run Karmic. All the compiling and setting up the drivers are done by the package. Also handles it self if you update your kernel etc. This is as my packages use dkms in the same way as the nvidia drivers in ubuntu have done since Intrepid. (you don't need the -dev packages of you don't have to build some source code yourself that need nvidia driver headers)

You might also want to install nvidia-195-libvdpau if you want vdpau support that beside the software in it self need hardware from nvidia 8800 series or newer to de facto work otherwise there is no benefit.

Just remember that the nvidia 195.xx drivers are still beta but so far works great for me.

I see it now...

I loaded your repo and the first time through after reloading it did not show all of the 195.xx drivers, only the -dev ones.

They are there now and I will give it a try

Thanks

[Nixie Pixel]

First I wanted to thank you. This guide is very valuable and helped me quite a bit!

I have been having a problem with the Nvidia drivers - it seems that they are giving me problems with color switching during video playback. Blues look green/yellow, browns look blue, and so on. Viewing images is fine, it just happens on certain videos.

When I run mplayer with -vo x11, colors show up properly, so I believe it is the driver that is the problem, is this correct? (I can create a new thread if this isn't the place to ask about that)

Thanks!

[Kosimo]

First I wanted to thank you. This guide is very valuable and helped me quite a bit!

I have been having a problem with the Nvidia drivers - it seems that they are giving me problems with color switching during video playback. Blues look green/yellow, browns look blue, and so on. Viewing images is fine, it just happens on certain videos.

When I run mplayer with -vo x11, colors show up properly, so I believe it is the driver that is the problem, is this correct? (I can create a new thread if this isn't the place to ask about that)

Thanks!

Is good to see that this guide still helps people :D

What current configuration are you using? Graphics card, driver version, etc...

Thanks!

[AaronP_]

I have been having a problem with the Nvidia drivers - it seems that they are giving me problems with color switching during video playback. Blues look green/yellow, browns look blue, and so on. Viewing images is fine, it just happens on certain videos.

When I run mplayer with -vo x11, colors show up properly, so I believe it is the driver that is the problem, is this correct? (I can create a new thread if this isn't the place to ask about that)
This is a common problem with some video players that set the XVideo hue adjustment option to 180 degrees from what it should be. You should be able to open the player's control panel and reset the hue slider. Alternatively, you can open up nvidia-settings, change to the "X Server XVideo Settings" tab, and hit "Reset Hardware Defaults".

Hope that helps!

[neslot]

I went into ctrl+alt+f1
used the command CD DESKTOP
So that I could install
but it gave me and error as NO SUCH DIRECTORY EXISTS?

What did I do wrong... My screen freezes and I am hoping this new driver will work to fix the problem


Try cd /home/(your login name)/Desktop

space after cd. you can hit tab after /ho to complete, and after the first 2 or 3 letters of your login name then /De be sure to use an upper case D in desktop
hitting tab after each double or triple letter entry to auto complete keeps you on the correct path..
Tony

[infestor]

administration>hardware drivers still show that i use 185, but nvidia settings show 195.22. i take it 195.22 is in use?

[ratcheer]

administration>hardware drivers still show that i use 185, but nvidia settings show 195.22. i take it 195.22 is in use?

That sounds right to me. On my system, nothing above 185 has ever shown up in the Hardware Drivers applet.

Tim

[llawwehttam]

Just a little worry. When I install the drivers ubuntu offers me in the Hardware drivers menu I lose my display and have had to resort to reinstalling. Are the drivers from the website the same ie will they cause me trouble or should they be fine.

I want to get a laptop card, a GT130M Hybrid Hotswap working to be precise.

Any advice?

[GeekGirl1]

If anyone is interested in newer Nvidia drivers (especially for Karmic) I have packages ready for both the 190-series and the new 195-beta series on my repo at Launchpad. Look for the packages named nvidia-glx-190 (at the moment 190.42) and nvidia-glx-195 (at the moment 195.30). There are also a bunch of other goodies on my repo.

Check it out at: https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra

If you install updated Nvidia drivers like this the easiest way to get all the libs and drivers to reload is making a reboot after updating.Thank you! The 195-beta series installed perfectly with no errors. Synaptic removed nearly all of the previous versions, but some files remain. Can I remove files with versions 173, 180, 185, and 96 as shown below?

Should the package manager remove these files automatically (perhaps this information will help you)?

~> dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
nvidia-173-modaliases install
nvidia-180-modaliases install
nvidia-185-modaliases install
nvidia-195-kernel-source install
nvidia-195-libvdpau install
nvidia-96-modaliases install
nvidia-common install
nvidia-glx-195 install
nvidia-glx-195-dev install
nvidia-settings install

Update: I removed files marked for deinstall with Ubuntu Tweak (http://ubuntu-tweak.com/).

[AnyMation]

Thanks a LOT for this thread.

I am a COMPLETE newby on Ubuntu (this is my first post/reply). I only installed it this week, but I am amazed by it. It totally blew my expectations. Everything went a lot smoother than I expected.

However... the graphics has been giving me the most problems. Although this was the first page that actually helped me, I still have a few problems.

So, without having read the 105 pages of this thread:
Some of my settings on the NVidia X Server settings app are greyed out - and I need to be able to adjust them, e.g.:


The screen resolution of the secondary display. The resolutions it allows me are a lot lower than I need, which is 1280 X 1024. (Under Windoze, I am able to set it a lot higher than what is available in the settings - with no deterioration)
The refresh rate of the secondary screen (a CRT). It is totally greyed out - I cannot adjust it at all. The 60Hz drives me MAD!


I doubt whether it is a driver limitation. Is it perhaps merely a matter of changing the settings in a file somewhere?

I also do not seem to be able to save the configuration file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) settings - and I therefore have to tell it that I have a second monitor every time.

Can anyone help me out with this? Forgive such mundane questions from a newby!

Thanks.

[philip5]

Thank you! The 195-beta series installed perfectly with no errors. Synaptic removed nearly all of the previous versions, but some files remain. Can I remove files with versions 173, 180, 185, and 96 as shown below?

Should the package manager remove these files automatically (perhaps this information will help you)?

~> dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
nvidia-173-modaliases install
nvidia-180-modaliases install
nvidia-185-modaliases install
nvidia-195-kernel-source install
nvidia-195-libvdpau install
nvidia-96-modaliases install
nvidia-common install
nvidia-glx-195 install
nvidia-glx-195-dev install
nvidia-settings install

Update: I removed files marked for deinstall with Ubuntu Tweak (http://ubuntu-tweak.com/).

The only packages you need is nvidia-195-kernel-source, nvidia-195-modaliases and nvidia-glx-195. If you want vpdau support then you also need nvidia-195-libvdpau. nvidia-glx-195-dev is of course only needed if you have to compile stuff yourself against the nvidia 195 libs. nvidia-settings is of course also handy. The rest is not needed (maybe I should be more strict to remove even them by setting them to conflict but at the same time they do no real harm).

Speaking about libvdpau there are some changes comming up there with how it will be packaged and mainly because it's now a spinn off open source project that nvidia have broken out from the rest of the nvidia drivers (some more nvidia parts will be truly open source this way, yeay!). There will be a non-nvidia-specific-package series for called libvpdau1 comming up (as can be found in debian sid recently) but they still only work with nvidia hardware as before. I'm looking over this for karmic when I have time so it doesn't break anything by pulling it out in the debian sid way compatible with karmic that will be the future.

[llawwehttam]

I've been always disappointed with all video drivers we had in linux, (AMD or nVidia) Very ugly 2D performance (specially nvidia) and tons of issues when mixing compiz and 3D or Video. It's been almost a week since I've installed nVidia BETA drivers 180.06 which includes for the first time ever Pure Video on Linux. I am impressed with the general performance and stability, compiz have never been that smooth, video has an amazing quality even when I'm moving my desktop cube, any 3D app can perfectly run with no issues or performance problems. In one word. IMPRESSIVE. I hope that this is not the final step but only the first one of a new nVidia drivers series that can finally put Linux at the same level than Windows Drivers stability and performance. I would like to ask you guys if anyone else is using 180.XX drivers, let's talk about how you feel with them!




Edit November 25 2009: Latest nVidia 195.xx (BETA) Open GL 3.2 195.22 Drivers: 32 Bit (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/195.22/) 64 Bit (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/195.22/)



Edit December 11 2009: Latest nVidia 195.xx (PRE-Release) Open GL 3.2 195.53 Drivers: 32 Bit (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/190.53/) 64 Bit (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/190.53//)



Edit October 30 2009: Latest nVidia 190.xx (STABLE) Open GL 3.2 190.42 Drivers: 32 Bit (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_190.42.html) 64 Bit (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_190.42.html)




How to install nVidia drivers in Linux:

It is very easy and you can do it by just following this steps. Remember to uninstall any previous version! If you are using the proprietary hardware tool in Ubuntu you should disable the current driver first and then restart your computer before you start. THIS IS MANDATORY!

Note: Follow this instructions at your own risk

1) Download the driver (for example in your desktop) - Get the pkg1, Right Click, Save As...

2) Enter in a real terminal mode: CONTROL + ALT + F1, then login (don't do it now as you wouldn't be able to keep reading)

3) Go to your desktop:
cd Desktop4) Turn off X.org/GDM (Gnome Display Manager):
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop5) Run the installer:
sudo sh ./Nxxx.run (If you hit TAB after the first N the rest of the filename will automatically appear. Remember, Linux is case sensitive)

6) Choose x.org automatic configuration at the last step inside the installation program.

7) Then restart your computer
sudo reboot8) Enjoy!


Important note: In some instances, after a kernel upgrade you won't be able to load x.org. "sdennie" made a very useful post where explains how to create a script that will automatically install the drivers when your kernel is upgraded. Have a look here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=835573)

ps: If anything goes wrong, you can easily uninstall this drivers by following the same steps and when running the installer type:
sudo sh ./Nxxx --uninstallor

sudo nvidia-uninstallps2: This NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release supports GeForce 6xxx and newer NVIDIA GPUs, GeForce4 and older GPUs are supported through the 96.43.xx and 71.86.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers. GeForce FX GPUs are supported through the 173.14.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.



Legacy Drivers


GeForce 5 series GPUs 173.14.20 32 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.20/) , 64 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/173.14.20/)

GeForce 5 series GPUs 173.14.22 Pre-release 32 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.22/) , 64 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/173.14.22/)

GeForce 2 through GeForce 4 series 96.43.13 32 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.13/) , 64 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/96.43.13/)

GeForce 2 through GeForce 4 series 96.43.14 Pre-release 32 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.14/) , 64 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/96.43.14/)

Riva TNT, TNT2, GeForce, and some GeForce 2 71.86.11 32 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/71.86.11/) , 64 bits (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/71.86.11/)


note: Legacy drivers are being updated as well.


Good luck ;)

I can't thank you enough for that post. I have never got graphics drivers working so easily or so well in ubuntu. I have managed it before in debian but never ubuntu and I have been using various linux distros for over 7 years now!

Thank you again for that extremely easy to follow guide.

[Buschbarber]

Every time I receive a new Kernel revision, via Update Mgr, I am forced to go to Terminal Mode, at Boot, and I have to reinstall the Nvidia drivers. I am currently using Ubuntu Ultimate 2.5 64bit and Nvidia driver 195.22, but this has been true with any Nvidia driver I have been using.

Is that normal?

[ratcheer]

Every time I receive a new Kernel revision, via Update Mgr, I am forced to go to Terminal Mode, at Boot, and I have to reinstall the Nvidia drivers. I am currently using Ubuntu Ultimate 2.5 64bit and Nvidia driver 195.22, but this has been true with any Nvidia driver I have been using.

Is that normal?

It is, for me. Someone told me I shouldn't have to, but I do. I think it has something to do with how we install it. If you install the binaries, manually, you have to reinstall them for each kernel update. But, I am told that if you install a package someone has put in their PPA, you don't have to reinstall.

I still prefer to get the binaries directly from nVidia.

Tim

[AnyMation]

Thanks a LOT for this thread.

I am a COMPLETE newby on Ubuntu (this is my first post/reply). I only installed it this week, but I am amazed by it. It totally blew my expectations. Everything went a lot smoother than I expected.

However... the graphics has been giving me the most problems. Although this was the first page that actually helped me, I still have a few problems.

So, without having read the 105 pages of this thread:
Some of my settings on the NVidia X Server settings app are greyed out - and I need to be able to adjust them, e.g.:


The screen resolution of the secondary display. The resolutions it allows me are a lot lower than I need, which is 1280 X 1024. (Under Windoze, I am able to set it a lot higher than what is available in the settings - with no deterioration)
The refresh rate of the secondary screen (a CRT). It is totally greyed out - I cannot adjust it at all. The 60Hz drives me MAD!


I doubt whether it is a driver limitation. Is it perhaps merely a matter of changing the settings in a file somewhere?

I also do not seem to be able to save the configuration file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) settings - and I therefore have to tell it that I have a second monitor every time.

Can anyone help me out with this? Forgive such mundane questions from a newbie!

Thanks.


After some searching and trying I got it resolved. I eventually had to edit the xorg.conf file... deep end stuff for a newbie! But, now I can venture into deeper waters... no swimming yet -> just to my knees :-)

[Kosimo]

I can't thank you enough for that post. I have never got graphics drivers working so easily or so well in ubuntu. I have managed it before in debian but never ubuntu and I have been using various linux distros for over 7 years now!

Thank you again for that extremely easy to follow guide.


You're much more than welcome ;)

[Kosimo]

Every time I receive a new Kernel revision, via Update Mgr, I am forced to go to Terminal Mode, at Boot, and I have to reinstall the Nvidia drivers. I am currently using Ubuntu Ultimate 2.5 64bit and Nvidia driver 195.22, but this has been true with any Nvidia driver I have been using.

Is that normal?


Yes, it is normal. As at every kernel upgrade you need to rebuild the drivers. If you read the first page of this thread you'll find a link to a post where teaches you how to create a script that will do this for you automatically at every single kernel upgrade.

Good luck,

[darco]

Yes, it is normal. As at every kernel upgrade you need to rebuild the drivers. If you read the first page of this thread you'll find a link to a post where teaches you how to create a script that will do this for you automatically at every single kernel upgrade.

Good luck,

That script is awesome...its rare that my nvidia drivers are not rebuilt after a kernel update.

[Buschbarber]

Yes, it is normal. As at every kernel upgrade you need to rebuild the drivers. If you read the first page of this thread you'll find a link to a post where teaches you how to create a script that will do this for you automatically at every single kernel upgrade.

Good luck,

Thank you very much!!

[zucche]

Alternatively, you can open up nvidia-settings, change to the "X Server XVideo Settings" tab, and hit "Reset Hardware Defaults".

Hope that helps!

THANKS for that

[Kosimo]

Folks,

I have just updated the drivers links to the latest official (190.53) and BETA (195.30) releases. Have a look at the first page if interested.

Good luck ;)

[mackjb]

Hey folks,

My name is JB and I'm a Linux noob.

Just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and have been attempting to update my nvidia drivers by following the instructions here, but I'm running into some snags and was hoping for some help.

I can access terminal from Applications but every time I try to CTRL+ALT+1 my screen just scrambles and I have to come back to the gui. If I try to run the commands for installing the 190.53 drivers listed on the first page of this thread I get 'can't open blah, blah, blah' error. Obviously something is wrong and yes, I know a lot of it is me, but...

I'm confused and angered and close to pummeling my computer, can anyone advise?

Not sure if you need system specs, but briefly I'm running dual GTS 250's in SLI and Asus P6T mobo with Intel Core i7 920(slightly OC'd).

I surely will love you forever if you can help me out here. And thanks in advance.

JB

[Kosimo]

Hey folks,

My name is JB and I'm a Linux noob.

Just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and have been attempting to update my nvidia drivers by following the instructions here, but I'm running into some snags and was hoping for some help.

I can access terminal from Applications but every time I try to CTRL+ALT+1 my screen just scrambles and I have to come back to the gui. If I try to run the commands for installing the 190.53 drivers listed on the first page of this thread I get 'can't open blah, blah, blah' error. Obviously something is wrong and yes, I know a lot of it is me, but...

I'm confused and angered and close to pummeling my computer, can anyone advise?

Not sure if you need system specs, but briefly I'm running dual GTS 250's in SLI and Asus P6T mobo with Intel Core i7 920(slightly OC'd).

I surely will love you forever if you can help me out here. And thanks in advance.

JB

Just a quick answer, you have to type control + alt + F1 Not control + alt + 1

[mackjb]

Just a quick answer, you have to type control + alt + F1 Not control + alt + 1

I know, just a typo, sorry about that.

JB

[Tweak42]

Hey folks,

My name is JB and I'm a Linux noob.

Just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and have been attempting to update my nvidia drivers by following the instructions here, but I'm running into some snags and was hoping for some help.

I can access terminal from Applications but every time I try to CTRL+ALT+1 my screen just scrambles and I have to come back to the gui. If I try to run the commands for installing the 190.53 drivers listed on the first page of this thread I get 'can't open blah, blah, blah' error. Obviously something is wrong and yes, I know a lot of it is me, but...

I'm confused and angered and close to pummeling my computer, can anyone advise?

Not sure if you need system specs, but briefly I'm running dual GTS 250's in SLI and Asus P6T mobo with Intel Core i7 920(slightly OC'd).

I surely will love you forever if you can help me out here. And thanks in advance.

JB

I've never used a SLI setup, but is it possible when you CTRL+ALT+F1 to terminal that it is being outputted to a different DVI/VGA port than your monitor is plugged into?

Along those lines, you can also try pulling 1 of the vid cards and doing a single card install then adding the SLI card back in.

[VastOne]

I know, just a typo, sorry about that.

JB

Do you see the same behavior if you do ctrl + alt + f2 or f3 or f4 or f5 or f6?

[mackjb]

Do you see the same behavior if you do ctrl + alt + f2 or f3 or f4 or f5 or f6?

Yes, same behavior. Something I haven't tried yet, but what if I were to boot into recovery mode and install the driver? would that work when rebooting?

JB

[VastOne]

Yes, same behavior. Something I haven't tried yet, but what if I were to boot into recovery mode and install the driver? would that work when rebooting?

JB

Yes you can do this. Every time there is a kernel update I update nVidia this way. Just make sure you have the driver on your pc and that you have the instructions on what to do.

[giovanni420]

I have a GeForce 8200M. What are the drivers right for me? 190.53?

[VastOne]

I have a GeForce 8200M. What are the drivers right for me? 190.53?

I have a 9500 and have 190.42 loaded and they are great

Edit

After seeing your post that 190.53 is now the stable release I have loaded it and it is great too

[Kosimo]

I have a 9500 and have 190.42 loaded and they are great

Edit

After seeing your post that 190.53 is now the stable release I have loaded it and it is great too

I try to keep the first page of this thread always updated with the latest releases, so you can have a look every once in a while.

[VastOne]

I try to keep the first page of this thread always updated with the latest releases, so you can have a look every once in a while.

Indeed...I look everyday and somehow missed it, I also have instant notification for this thread on for your updates and still missed it..

Appreciate all you do here Kosimo...Thanks
:D

[mackjb]

Update on my situation

I finally got the driver to install as per the instructions on the first page of this post(thank you for those by the way), however, I get a black screen and lockup right after GRUB boot selection. Also, the recommended driver from the Hardware Drivers menu gives the same result so I'm convinced it has something to do with my SLI config. I'm giving up on this for the time being, I'll just have to do without all the graphical bells and whistles until I learn a little more.

If someone could give me the command for uninstalling a driver that would be great; I really don't want to reinstall.

I'm very discouraged, I mean it's just a video driver, I feel it shouldn't be this complicated, but like I said, I'm a complete noob when it comes to Linux. I'm going to back off a bit, maybe buy a book or something before I tackle this again. I want to thank everyone for their help, and I'm sure I'll have other questions on less advanced issues in the very near future.

JB

[Kosimo]

Update on my situation

I finally got the driver to install as per the instructions on the first page of this post(thank you for those by the way), however, I get a black screen and lockup right after GRUB boot selection. Also, the recommended driver from the Hardware Drivers menu gives the same result so I'm convinced it has something to do with my SLI config. I'm giving up on this for the time being, I'll just have to do without all the graphical bells and whistles until I learn a little more.

If someone could give me the command for uninstalling a driver that would be great; I really don't want to reinstall.

I'm very discouraged, I mean it's just a video driver, I feel it shouldn't be this complicated, but like I said, I'm a complete noob when it comes to Linux. I'm going to back off a bit, maybe buy a book or something before I tackle this again. I want to thank everyone for their help, and I'm sure I'll have other questions on less advanced issues in the very near future.

JB



Bad to know that you give up ;)

if you want to uninstall the drivers just type:



sudo nvidia-uninstall

[VastOne]

Update on my situation

I finally got the driver to install as per the instructions on the first page of this post(thank you for those by the way), however, I get a black screen and lockup right after GRUB boot selection. Also, the recommended driver from the Hardware Drivers menu gives the same result so I'm convinced it has something to do with my SLI config. I'm giving up on this for the time being, I'll just have to do without all the graphical bells and whistles until I learn a little more.

If someone could give me the command for uninstalling a driver that would be great; I really don't want to reinstall.

I'm very discouraged, I mean it's just a video driver, I feel it shouldn't be this complicated, but like I said, I'm a complete noob when it comes to Linux. I'm going to back off a bit, maybe buy a book or something before I tackle this again. I want to thank everyone for their help, and I'm sure I'll have other questions on less advanced issues in the very near future.

JB


sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia*


Don't be too discouraged. When I first started I was in a similar situation, and I incorrectly assumed that the answer would come to via a guru in 10 seconds flat.

The answer is here, or google. Just be patient and research it to the detail.

I would search google with Ubuntu + SLI + nVidia + your specific card + any other variable that is specific to yours

This one shows several people using your card on Ubuntu, perhaps they can help

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1378602

and here at the nVidia site is detailed instruction specific to Linux

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1378602

Good luck

[Colinchocolate]

I went to try to install the driver for my nVidia GeForce 6200, and it says that it can't run ./Nxxx. I followed the instructions to the note.

[VastOne]

I went to try to install the driver for my nVidia GeForce 6200, and it says that it can't run ./Nxxx. I followed the instructions to the note.

Which driver did you try to install?

You may want to check out this thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349553

[Kosimo]

I went to try to install the driver for my nVidia GeForce 6200, and it says that it can't run ./Nxxx. I followed the instructions to the note.

Are you writting ./Nxxx?

the x's are examples, you have to write the entire filename, (which can automatically be done if you hit TAB after writting the first cap N)

[howcanireachthesekids]

Just installed the latest Nvidia Accelerated Graphics driver for my 9200M GS card on my HP Pavilion DV6-1020el following the guide on OP's post. Everything went fine and smooth. In less then 2 minutes work :) Feels good man :popcorn:

[VastOne]

Information post

I was happily using 190.53 for several days when on a reboot I was unable to enable Visual Effects which in turn disable compiz

I put 190.42 back on and everything went back to normal. I will retry 190.53 later to see if I can run it again and post the results

[knighthaq]

your instructions worked but i had to do it from boot up i cant get cntrl+alt+f1 to work garbles my screen all up with lots of colors am i missing something?

[PureRumble]

Guys, are you aware of these instructions:

http://www.webupd8.org/2009/08/how-to-install-nvidia-190xx-drivers-in.html

?

I followed them and they worked flawlessly on my laptop. Just install a launchpad ppa and get the drivers as you get any packages.

Any reason why you should do it manually? :)

[the-penguin]

hey guys...

ok im sorry for the noobie intro but i've been wondering if any of could help me with the issue that im having with my graphics card.
i have a NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / nForce 620i ( i know no the best one) and when i install my drive the display will not work... i have been working on this issue for the past week with no victory.
my desktop currently runs in low graphics mode because the "device" is not found ( according to the log).
I did make it to the login screen before but once i logged in it said that the imput is not supported.
[im running on 9.10 by the way]

could you help me out?
regards,:???:
the-penguin

[knighthaq]

yeah it gives you and older driver and it just wouldnt work on my pc, i did try them. but manually worked best for me after i figured out how to do the permissions to save my settings

[Caps18]

If I am upgrading my motherboard/GPU from a 6200 to a built-in 8800, do I need to uninstall the old driver before I can install the new one?

The second issue is that I do not have gcc installed on my machine, is there some way to get pre-compiled drivers? I am running 7.10 still, and it won't let me download any updates or use apt-get since it can't connect to the IP address it has. I think this is where I left off and got stuck at.


Thanks!

[NoaHall]

If I am upgrading my motherboard/GPU from a 6200 to a built-in 8800, do I need to uninstall the old driver before I can install the new one?

The second issue is that I do not have gcc installed on my machine, is there some way to get pre-compiled drivers? I am running 7.10 still, and it won't let me download any updates or use apt-get since it can't connect to the IP address it has. I think this is where I left off and got stuck at.


Thanks!

Yes.

[markinf]

Isn't this way to recompile the driver with the an updated kernel outdated??

[Kosimo]

Folks

New 195.36.03 BETA drivers has been released.


Here the changelog:


* Fixed a regression that made the "TVStandard" X configuration option cause system hangs with products from the GeForce 6 and 7 series.
* Worked around a bug in some AUO laptop flat panels where the native mode in the EDID is invalid, leading to a 640x480 desktop repeated six times across the screen.
* Increased the maximum number of slices supported by VDPAU for MPEG-2 streams, in order to cope with the region 1 DVD "A Christmas Story".
* Added unofficial preliminary support for xorg-server video driver ABI version 7, including xorg-server-1.7.99.2.
* Fix the soname of libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 and libvdpau_trace.so.1 to match their filenames.



Download links at the first page of this thread.

Good luck.

[dBuster]

Anyone else running Jaunty with the latest kernel update as of this morning???

The latest kernel totally hosed my nvidia and now I have hours of trying to get the nvidia re-installed to work with that kernel!

[LazKapitaL]

There are 3 .run file on beta driver list. 2 of them is 24mb and last one is 40 mb. Which one should be installed?

[Amorget]

There are 3 .run file on beta driver list. 2 of them is 24mb and last one is 40 mb. Which one should be installed?

For the 64 bit OS I know you use the 3rd, which includes the 32 bit binaries (or something like that).

[sdowney717]

The latest kernel totally hosed my nvidia and now I have hours of trying to get the nvidia re-installed to work with that kernel!

Yes, it did for me too.
But it took less than 10 minutes

I keep a copy of the Nvidia driver 195.30.
I rename it to something simple
Boot it into recovery mode
login
navigate to the directory with the file
run it like this
sudo ./nvidia19530.run
sudo reboot

It does not complain about run levels and it sets up easy.
reboot and it is up and running in X

[eival]

okay quick question, im on a fresh 8.04 and never installed the proprietary NVIDIA 3D drivers so i assume there was nothing to uninstall as stated in the guide, if im wrong please tell me if i can fix it now...

anyways i just installed the latest 190.50 driver after running into an issue of not having the libc development package isntalled(which shows how fresh my install was since it wasnt stated in the guide :p), but once everything was done and i rebooted, it started in Low Graphics Mode.:popcorn:

so i brought up the terminal an


sudo nvidia-uninstall

then attempted to reinstall again, how ever this time i simply restarted gdm and its fine as i type this, now the only time i ever restart my laptop is when system updates mandate it, like the kernal update a few days ago, those updates are the best:)

so needless to say im weary of restarting just for the hell of it to see if it boots into low graphics mode again. but what exactly CAUSES that to happen in the first place?

and one last note, did anyone else notice the 190.53 driver take especially longer to install than previous versions?

it seemed to hang on almost every step.

[shane2peru]

Thanks for how-to, worked like a charm. I didn't realize Nvidia was so far ahead of the Ubuntu restricted drivers. I have the Nvidia Geoforce 9500 GT card.

Shane

[crjackson]

Could my video driver cause my Webcam to stop working properly?

[Kosimo]

Could my video driver cause my Webcam to stop working properly?

Yes, it happened to me as well... Unfortunately I really have no clue why this is happening. Something releated with x.org maybe?

[crjackson]

Yes, it happened to me as well... Unfortunately I really have no clue why this is happening. Something releated with x.org maybe?

I suspected as much. Hopefully it will clear up with the next driver update. It sure is annoying.

[dBuster]

okay quick question, im on a fresh 8.04 and never installed the proprietary NVIDIA 3D drivers so i assume there was nothing to uninstall as stated in the guide, if im wrong please tell me if i can fix it now...

anyways i just installed the latest 190.50 driver after running into an issue of not having the libc development package isntalled(which shows how fresh my install was since it wasnt stated in the guide :p), but once everything was done and i rebooted, it started in Low Graphics Mode.:popcorn:

so i brought up the terminal an


sudo nvidia-uninstall

then attempted to reinstall again, how ever this time i simply restarted gdm and its fine as i type this, now the only time i ever restart my laptop is when system updates mandate it, like the kernal update a few days ago, those updates are the best:)

so needless to say im weary of restarting just for the hell of it to see if it boots into low graphics mode again. but what exactly CAUSES that to happen in the first place?

and one last note, did anyone else notice the 190.53 driver take especially longer to install than previous versions?

it seemed to hang on almost every step.

Check my thread out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399279

I had a similar issue with the low graphics mode... What I mentioned in my post worked to correct my issues with the low graphics...

[eival]

okay the issue is when the boot loader gets to "running local boot scripts" it had a location but i forgot to write it down, if its important i can do that if someone asks.

it just hangs there, the screen goes black about 3 times then low graphics mode starts.

i went as far to actually uninstall every display driver from Synaptic to force it to use the manual Nvidia card, but when i restarted it just hanged on "running local boot scripts" so i used crtl+alt+f1 to bring up the command line then just installed the manual driver and restarted gdm and its working fine.

so im not an expert but im willing to be theres something in the local boot script that needs to be changed to fix this issue, how ever i dont know anything about that, so hopefully someone can figure it out:popcorn:

[zero7404]

my battle with getting my hardware to function properly in ubuntu 9.10 has been, well, a battle.

after a fresh install of 9.10 and ensuing updates via update manager, restarted the computer and proceeded to install nvidia's latest driver package (190.53) for my hardware (Dell XPS M1730, 8800M GTX SLI). i installed the package properly, got no errors.

after a few restarts I began to get a fuzzy desktop after logging in, fuzzy as in the screen lines in some locations start to play horizontally.

so i stopped xserver and restarted it and the fuzziness goes away.
but then it happens again on a subsequent reboot. so i tried enabling sli with the command:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --sli=auto

then restarted the computer. now the display won't even get to the login, it remains off (completely dark), after the white ubuntu logo disappears (after startup).

now i'm at a loss to figure out why it's behaving this way, but would like to proceed with uninstalling the nvidia driver completely, then maybe trying to install it again. or if there is a fix for this ? or if my safest bet is to use the recommended restricted driver by ubuntu (185) ?

[eival]

i figured out the issue!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1088985

i had to remove a few more linux-restricted-modules

and now it runs the manual nvidia driver on reboot

[zero7404]

is there anyone that can help me out with fixing this problem i've got so i can get ubuntu back up and running ?
i have so far reinstalled ubuntu several times in the past year due to misc problems and issues with updates and display driver problems. i am getting tired of configuring the OS to the way I like it, then getting shot in the foot with this display driver problem. back when i was using 8.10 i had no issues with my sli setup and the system ran fine.....

[eival]

is there anyone that can help me out with fixing this problem i've got so i can get ubuntu back up and running ?
i have so far reinstalled ubuntu several times in the past year due to misc problems and issues with updates and display driver problems. i am getting tired of configuring the OS to the way I like it, then getting shot in the foot with this display driver problem. back when i was using 8.10 i had no issues with my sli setup and the system ran fine.....

did you check the thread i posted?

your issue is prolly caused by the other preinstalled drivers still on your system, delete all those files and your manual driver will work fine

[Kosimo]

Folks:

Legacy drivers 173.14.25, 96.43.16, and 71.86.13 has been updated

compatibility with newer kernels and x.org with other minor changes.

Download links at the first page of this thread.


Good luck

[chalewa]

i just did a fresh install of 9.10 as I just bought a new nvidia card... geforce 210 for use with htpc, however, i seem to be struggling with the drivers.

i installed 190.53 and the install seemed to work well, but the quality of the picture is terrible. i have the card hooked up to a 46 hdtv with a native resolution of 1920x1080. first i had to adjust the overscan compensation as the picture was too big for the screen, and video playback is still terrible. i feel like i am missing something.

does anyone have any ideas?

thanks

[Objekt]

It would help to know how you're hooking things up. Are you using an HDMI cable to connect to the TV? DVI? Old fashioned VGA cable? Please also mention the brand and model of your TV.

I don't have an HDTV, but I do have an LCD monitor of HDTV resolution (Acer P244Wbd) that I use as a second monitor, with the Nvidia 190.53 drivers. My video card is a GeForce 9800 GTX+, with two DVI outputs and no HDMI, so I use a DVI cable to hook up the monitor. I have no problems with this setup.

[eival]

i just did a fresh install of 9.10 as I just bought a new nvidia card... geforce 210 for use with htpc, however, i seem to be struggling with the drivers.

i installed 190.53 and the install seemed to work well, but the quality of the picture is terrible. i have the card hooked up to a 46 hdtv with a native resolution of 1920x1080. first i had to adjust the overscan compensation as the picture was too big for the screen, and video playback is still terrible. i feel like i am missing something.

does anyone have any ideas?

thanks

my GeForce Go 6150 only lets me output up to 1050 thru VGA in a 4:3 format, even tho its going to a widescreen 1080p capable tv, so i have to either downgrade it to 768 which is the next lowset wide screen setting, or i use a combination of 1050 4:3, then set my tv to stretch mode and when i drag VLC to it, i expand it to fit the screen then change the video's aspect ratio to 4:3 an it looks proper..

but after i bought a WD Live player i just use that to watch movies now

[cdekter]

i just did a fresh install of 9.10 as I just bought a new nvidia card... geforce 210 for use with htpc, however, i seem to be struggling with the drivers.

i installed 190.53 and the install seemed to work well, but the quality of the picture is terrible. i have the card hooked up to a 46 hdtv with a native resolution of 1920x1080. first i had to adjust the overscan compensation as the picture was too big for the screen, and video playback is still terrible. i feel like i am missing something.

does anyone have any ideas?

thanks

Try the latest beta drivers (195.30). I have a 310 (very similar to 210) and had all kinds of problems with 190.53.

[Kosimo]

Good morning Folks..
nVidia has just released a brand new Stable Driver which replaces the current BETA.

195.36.08

Changelog:


* Added support for the following GPUs:
o Quadro FX 880M
o GeForce GTS 350M
o GeForce GTS 360M
* Fixed a bug that caused screen corruption after an application released a GLX_NV_present_video device.
* Fixed an X server crash caused by starting nvidia-settings while X was not on the active VT.
* Fixed brightness control hotkeys on some laptops.
* Fixed an nvidia-settings bug that produced many "Bad argument" warning messages when running nvidia-settings --query all.
* Fixed an installer bug that produced the following message:
Code:

WARNING: Unable to perform the runtime configuration check for library
'libGL.so.1' ('/usr/lib/libGL.so.195.36.03'); assuming successful installation.

* Fixed a bug that caused G-Sync stereo synchronization to fail sometimes when enabling frame lock.
* Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL applications to occasionally crash with "double free or corruption" messages when exiting.
* On GPUs with VDPAU feature set A, enhanced VDPAU's handling of some corrupted or incorrectly formatted MPEG-1/2 streams. This solves a reported issue with "0testbad.mpg".
* Fixed a bug in the VDPAU video mixer that caused chroma aberrations, and corruption in the right-hand few columns of pixels, when post- processing video surfaces with widths not an exact multiple of 4 pixels.
* Fixed a bug that prevented the GPUFanControlState attribute from being set on the nvidia-settings command line.



Download links at the first page of this thread.

Enjoy!

[warped6]

Thank you!

After loading on the latest kernel updates, my Nvidia card was all wonky. After following your HOWTO I'm now back up and running on the latest drivers.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. :guitar:

[Kosimo]

Thank you!

After loading on the latest kernel updates, my Nvidia card was all wonky. After following your HOWTO I'm now back up and running on the latest drivers.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. :guitar:


Nice to know that this thread still helps people !

:popcorn:

[ratcheer]

WARNING: nVidia seems to be having some trouble with some drivers they have released. If you go to their main download page, they are only talking about 196.175 WHQL driver, but several other drivers have also been removed from their download site. For example, if you go to page 1 of this thread and click the link for the 195.36 driver, you will find that it is not currently available.

The issue has to do with the latest drivers severely overheating video cards, often to the point of failure.

I am wondering if I should revert to the 190 driver? I am currently running 195.36.08. Does anyone have further info?

Tim

[AaronP_]

I am wondering if I should revert to the 190 driver? I am currently running 195.36.08. Does anyone have further info?


See the announcement here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/announcement.php?a=39

[MC707]

When I click on the first link for 64 bit
Edit February 27 2010: Latest nVidia 195.xx (STABLE) 195.36.08 Drivers: 32 Bit . 64 Bit
I get a
550 /XFree86/Linux-x86_64/195.36.08/: No such file or directoryerror.

Regards

EDIT:

See the announcement here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/announcement.php?a=39

Oh now I see.

[Kosimo]

Folks, thanks for the heads up.

First page links have been corrected. Let's wait 'till a new official nVidia announcement is made so we can go back to the latest release.

[BudworthTDog]

Okay so I installed a new graphics card to my computer. nVIDIA GeForce 210. Everything with my on board video card was working fine I just put it in to ease up on the system ram and such. When watching movies, avi youtube ect there are two problems that arise. One is an intermitant horizontal distorted line that rolls down the screen. To best describe the "line" its as if the top and bottom layers shift sideways opposite of eachother slightly and then roll down the screen. The other is when a movie changes cameras the shift is rough, kind of like the movie "blinks" this also often triggers the "rolling line"

At first it was very consistant but that was before I installed the nVIDIA proprietary drivers, this improved the problem it was still there. Upon further research I discovered this thread.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ia+geforce+210 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=990978&highlight=nvidia+geforce+210)

I installed driver 190.53. This improved the problem even further but its till there. I tried both the hdmi and vga input and they both have the same issue. At this point I belive its just a configuration in the NVIDIA X server settings. Does anyone know the best settings.

---My main use for this computer is to watch movies and tv shows, no real gaming involved and 3d isnt all that important (i think)
---It is hooked up to a 40" samsung 60mhz tv
---hooked up hdmi
---nvidia geforce 210 graphics card
---using vcd player (same problem with other players)

Forgive me if this all is a dumb question, I'm new to all this.

[cdekter]

This sounds like a vsync issue to me. Are you using compositing/Compiz at all? If so, currently the nVidia drivers don't seem to be able to vsync videos if compositing is turned on. Disable it and your problem will probably go away.

As for youtube, this can't be fixed as Flash on Linux is garbage (or just garbage all round) and cannot be made to play video smoothly or with vsync.

[BudworthTDog]

This sounds like a vsync issue to me. Are you using compositing/Compiz at all? If so, currently the nVidia drivers don't seem to be able to vsync videos if compositing is turned on. Disable it and your problem will probably go away.

As for youtube, this can't be fixed as Flash on Linux is garbage (or just garbage all round) and cannot be made to play video smoothly or with vsync.


Awesome it worked like a charm. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, I didnt have compiz, I didnt even know what it was. After some research I couldnt seem to find a concreat answer on how to disable compositing. The jist I got from it was it had to do with special desktop effects. I just decided to poke around and ended up going to System--->Preference--->Apperance--->Visual effects--->None (normal is what was selected when I first opened it up) I've watched several videos that I know were doing it before and they all look much better. If you know of anything more I should do to further disable it let me know but I believe I am set.

[danjp2000]

Hello, I am having difficulty in trying to get the nvidia drivers installed since I upgraded to the 2.6.32 kernel. Specifically I am using the PAE kernel with the 195 version driver. I upgraded the kernel and tried to reinstall the nvidia driver via synaptic (from http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu) and while it looks like it installs ok it is not loading and I can only login using the default vesa driver. This driver works fine in the 2.6.31 kernels. I have tried removing and reinstalling the kernel and the driver multiple times with no luck. Also, when I do a ctrl-alt-F1 to try a manual install using the driver from the nvidia site, I only get a blank screen. The system is still active so if I blindly login and do a reboot the system starts. Als, I can not get to the recovery terminal as the screen hangs up. Any ideas on what I can do to sort this out would be greatly appreciated.

[Jake2500]

Hi, ive been reading through as many pages as i can (120+ is a small book)
and can't seem to find a solution to my problem. I have a XFX Geforce 9600 GSO and ive decided to install the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run driver but when i do dgm loads to a solid blue screen (not no signal the gfx card is outputting solid blue) i can use ctrl+alt+backspace to get to terminal and sudo cp failsafe xorg.conf but i can't get the nvidia generated xorg.conf to work

xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder75) Tue Dec 8 21:04:28 PST 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1440x900_60.00"
EndSubSection
EndSection

[Kosimo]

Folks, finally 195.xx drivers with the fan control bug solved!

195.36.15

Changelog:


* Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash when rendering occurred while the X server was not on the active VT.
* Fixed a regression that caused the driver to fail to properly adjust the GPU fan speed on some GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that prevented performance level transitions on recent GPUs with SDDR3 and GDDR5 memory.


Download links at the first page of this thread.

Good luck! ;)

[ratcheer]

I have been using 195.36.15 since yesterday morning. It seems to be fine, no problems at all.

Tim

[Kosimo]

195.36.07.03 STABLE OpenGL 3.3 Available!


Download links at the first page of this thread.

Good luck!

[brenosabino]

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with a Geforce 9600GT and 190.53 drivers, should i update to 195.36.07.03?

[Buschbarber]

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with a Geforce 9600GT and 190.53 drivers, should i update to 195.36.07.03?

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with a 9800GTX+ and 195.36.15, without any problems.

[Kosimo]

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with a Geforce 9600GT and 190.53 drivers, should i update to 195.36.07.03?

If you are not a developer that specifically needs to use OpenGL 3.3 I wouldn't recommend you to upgrade to 195.36.07.03.

But, I would certainly suggest you to move to the latest pre-release of 195.xx which contains a bunch of bug-fixes and performance increases.

[5735guy]

How To Install Nvidia 185.xx, 190.xx and 195.xx Drivers In Ubuntu, From A Launchpad Repository
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/08/how-to-install-nvidia-190xx-drivers-in.html

[Kosimo]

Guys, latest driver 195.36.15 pre-release have been promoted to the current Stable Release.


Links af the first page of this thread.

Good luck!

[cdekter]

Guys, latest driver 195.36.15 pre-release have been promoted to the current Stable Release.


Links af the first page of this thread.

Good luck!

On my G310M the 196.36.15 drivers have worse OpenGL performance than 195.30 (at least under Kwin).

[fatality_uk]

My performance has dropped slightly, but I get less gfx artifacts, so a light trade off. I am now getting avg 80 fps in ETQW with all settings on high @ 1280x1024. Previously I was getting 140fps avg

[Kosimo]

My performance has dropped slightly, but I get less gfx artifacts, so a light trade off. I am now getting avg 80 fps in ETQW with all settings on high @ 1280x1024. Previously I was getting 140fps avg

So I understand that you still get artifacts?

[fatality_uk]

I'll grab a screenshot this evening when I get home to show. I have noticed a great imporvement but I dont have AA on.

[Jason Peters]

If you are not a developer that specifically needs to use OpenGL 3.3 I wouldn't recommend you to upgrade to 195.36.07.03.

But, I would certainly suggest you to move to the latest pre-release of 195.xx which contains a bunch of bug-fixes and performance increases.
I finally successfully installed the 195.36.15 drivers using your instructions on the first page of this thread.

I'm a major Linux noob, so please this possibly redundant question. To clarify, you're saying that non-developers do NOT need to install the 195.36.07.03 OpenGL drivers?

Also, I noticed after the reboot that Hardware Drivers states "No proprietary drivers in use on this system." Is this to be expected?

Thanks in advance.

[cdekter]

I finally successfully installed the 195.36.15 drivers using your instructions on the first page of this thread.

I'm a major Linux noob, so please this possibly redundant question. To clarify, you're saying that non-developers do NOT need to install the 195.36.07.03 OpenGL drivers?

Also, I noticed after the reboot that Hardware Drivers states "No proprietary drivers in use on this system." Is this to be expected?

Thanks in advance.

I think what he was saying was that 195.30 is fine for most users. Since then 196.36.15 have been promoted to stable, so it's probably safe to use them now. Having said that, the 195.30 have significantly better 3D perforamnce.

The proprietary driver doodad only works if you install the drivers through it's interface - it won't detect the nVidia drivers you installed manually using the nVidia installer.

[AaronP_]

cdekter, what do you mean by "significantly better 3D performance"? Can you please attach nvidia-bug-report.log.gz files from both 195.36.15 and 190.53, and describe exactly what you're doing to measure the performance?

[Jason Peters]

I think what he was saying was that 195.30 is fine for most users. Since then 196.36.15 have been promoted to stable, so it's probably safe to use them now. Having said that, the 195.30 have significantly better 3D perforamnce.

The proprietary driver doodad only works if you install the drivers through it's interface - it won't detect the nVidia drivers you installed manually using the nVidia installer.
There are two links on the first page, though, one for drivers and one for OpenGL drivers. I'm wondering if it is necessary to install the OpenGL in addition to the main drivers.

That makes sense about the installer. How does one properly uninstall drivers installed with the nvidia installer when it comes time to upgrade?

[Kosimo]

There are two links on the first page, though, one for drivers and one for OpenGL drivers. I'm wondering if it is necessary to install the OpenGL in addition to the main drivers.

That makes sense about the installer. How does one properly uninstall drivers installed with the nvidia installer when it comes time to upgrade?

Jason.

The other ones aren't "opengl" drivers. Open GL is a 3d standard that has just arrived to the version 3.3 which that specific version supports. But for now, there are NO SCENARIOS where you'll need this support as the are no OpenGL 3.3 apps. So by using the latest stable drivers you are much more than safe and covered, having of course OpenGL support as well, but not for the version 3.3.

And as have been said, when you install the proprietary drivers manually you won't see them in the "proprietary drivers tool" instead you'll be able to open nVIDIa x server settings, in proprieties.


Just keep in mind, that when you'll have a kernel upgrade you won't be able to load x.org. If you want to be "safe" , keep a copy of the installed driver, so in the event that you can't load x.org, you can uninstall the driver and install it again in the console, or, follow the alternative process to let the system automatically compile the driver for the new kernel as explained in the first page.

Good luck.

[AaronP_]

How does one properly uninstall drivers installed with the nvidia installer when it comes time to upgrade?

nvidia-uninstall

(or old drivers, nvidia-installer --uninstall)

[cdekter]

cdekter, what do you mean by "significantly better 3D performance"? Can you please attach nvidia-bug-report.log.gz files from both 195.36.15 and 190.53, and describe exactly what you're doing to measure the performance?

I mean that the framerate for Kwin effects is drastically lower with the newer driver. When I get home tonight I'll turn on the framerate counter to get an exact measurement and post that here (and get the logs if I have time).

[static_hf]

I got a problem using this method.

After i do sudo sh ./Nxxx a new window appears with following note : It appears that you are using X server. Driver could not be installed.

What should i do? Sorry if you already replied to this problem cause i can't read all 100 pages of replies.:KS

[TheNessus]

I got a problem using this method.

After i do sudo sh ./Nxxx a new window appears with following note : It appears that you are using X server. Driver could not be installed.

What should i do? Sorry if you already replied to this problem cause i can't read all 100 pages of replies.:KS
you should kill gdm or kdm, whichever one you're running at the moment. (GNOME or KDE, gdm/kdm)


sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

After installing, "startx".

[Kosimo]

you should kill gdm or kdm, whichever one you're running at the moment. (GNOME or KDE, gdm/kdm)


sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

After installing, "startx".



just for the record:

If keeps not working even after doing this, try to go back to your previous ttl (control +F7) and make sure that there are no windows poping up asking to run in low graphics mode.

Good luck