Installation of the nvidia drivers

[Zuajiu]

Hello,

So before someone sends me to a linked page (I hope you can send me the right one), I have searched on the internet for hours, and alot on this site.

So I have this problem with my laptop.

i have jsut installed ubuntu Intrepid (8.10), really great, lots of nice stuff,
but then i trry to install those damned nvidia drivers.

So I got the problem where it sais :
Fatal server error:
No screens found
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to conenct to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

So then since I was quite new to linux, i didn't bother very long and jsut reinstalled.
The second time I did exactly the same thing then installed 32 bit, to see i i could get it working with that.
Well no suck luck,
I've been burning lines of commands into my head, trying and trying to get it working (I guess that's a good thing no?).
I've tried this link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1054842

No deal.
I would guess that it's because I'm running on a Hybrid SLI Nvidia, (9200m GS dedicated, 9400M G motherboard). Whcih came out quite recently.
Do you think i should just give up o installing the driver, I think I tried everything.
Should i jsut reinstall and wait for a new driver to come out?

Thanks for any help or advice that can be given

[Ripose]

Your card is on the supported hardware list.

GPU: GeForce 9200M GS Device PCI ID: 0x06E8

Have you tried starting in Safe Mode and installing Linux-Restricted-Drivers?
Then in Hardware activate Nvidia 177.

[Zuajiu]

Well the problem is that even in safe mode, the GUI doesn't load,
when i try to launch the x server it just gives the same error as above,
so I tried resetting the xorg.conf file, then I opened it to check what was in it, and there.. well nothing, I mean there is nothing else written but
basic phrase like "Configured Video Devive" or "configured Monitor", is this normal?

[Ripose]

Yes, that's normal for xorg.conf open the the xorg.conf.######### to see what is set, it may shoe a couple of different settings such as Driver Vesa
If it does show anything different try entering them into the xorg.conf

I am currently trying to fix a very similar problem, I'll let you know how it goes.

[Zuajiu]

Sorry Ripose, i didn't get the xorg.conf.###### thing you told me, what am i supposed to do? (Still learning how linux works, sorry)

[Zuajiu]

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[jimv]

I'm assuming you have internet access from the command line, so try this:

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...80.22-pkg1.run
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.22-pkg1.run

Follow through the instructions and reboot.

[Zuajiu]

I already tried that, it did actually install the driver, but there was still the no screen error after. So I just reinstalled linux, because it was really taking up to much time, though I would still like to try to install those nvidia drivers without having that bug, so that I can get 3D acceleration and stuff.

[deanjm1963]

I found the only way to get the nvidia drivers to install correctly was as follows - for intrepid only!

sudo apt-get install nvidia-180 modaliases
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180

after the install

run sudo nvidia-xconfig (TWICE - two times) first time will say there is no screen bla bla bla, but run it again.

by default there is no xorg.conf entries, but if you run it twice the driver will create the entries for xorg.conf

most important - check the horizontal and vertical refresh options for your monitor as they might need to be edited in the newly created xorg.conf

you can edit by sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

hope this helps

[Ripose]

There is another copy of xorg.conf that will look something like this xorg.conf.20090209144928 which may have different settings than xorg.conf

They are both in the /etc/X11 directory, the settings in the numbered .conf may show what you need to have in the main xorg.conf

Assuming you can get to the command line.

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
make the changes you found from the numbered .conf
[CTRL]O to write the changes [ENTER] to save using the same name [CTRL]X to exit

You may also have to change the /boot/grub/menu.lst

NOTE: nano is an easy editor to use, however you may not have it installed, so try vi or whatever you choose.