HowTo: NViDIA 185.18 Drivers in Ubuntu

[aquanuke]

Thanks Iain appreciate the time you put into doing that, will try it out tommorrow.

[aquanuke]

Cheers worked great

[KhaaL]

Hi!

just wanted to give some feedback, i installed 185.19 driver into .29-rc8 and .30-rc4. it worked nice on .29, and i'm just about to test .30

if you get "The CC version check failed" error message, you'll need to install the gcc version the installer requires (in my case it was gcc 4.2, just apt-get it) and re-run the installer with:
CC=gcc-4.2 ./NVIDIA-Linux-blahblah.run

and no more error messages about gcc mismatch


EDIT: I just tried installing it on .30rc4 and it didnt build, attaching my /var/log/nvidia-installer.log

aptitude search 2.6.30 shows:

i   linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc4  - Header files related to Linux kernel versi
i   linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc4- - Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.30 on
c   linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc1-ge - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.30 on x
i   linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc3-ge - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.30 on x
i   linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc4-ge - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.30 on x
i   linux-source-2.6.30             - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.30 wit

Would appriciate help

[ibuclaw]

Hi!

just wanted to give some feedback, i installed 185.19 driver into .29-rc8 and .30-rc4. it worked nice on .29, and i'm just about to test .30

if you get "The CC version check failed" error message, you'll need to install the gcc version the installer requires (in my case it was gcc 4.2, just apt-get it) and re-run the installer with:
CC=gcc-4.2 ./NVIDIA-Linux-blahblah.run

and no more error messages about gcc mismatch


EDIT: I just tried installing it on .30rc4 and it didnt build, attaching my /var/log/nvidia-installer.log

aptitude search 2.6.30 shows:

i   linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc4  - Header files related to Linux kernel versi
i   linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc4- - Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.30 on
c   linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc1-ge - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.30 on x
i   linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc3-ge - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.30 on x
i   linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc4-ge - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.30 on x
i   linux-source-2.6.30             - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.30 wit

Would appriciate help

Hey KhaaL,

I compiled my .30rc4 kernel manually using gcc-4.3, so I doubt I'll get that same cc version error.

As for the failed build, you'll have to use the newest version of the beta drivers (185.18.04). I mentioned this last time I spoke in this thread at you, the Linux devs have removed a few deprecated elements of a struct in the kernel, and due to the fact that the driver uses them is the reason why it fails to build.

I've known about this for some time (OK, about 3 weeks), and have included the links to the drivers in my howto.

This driver is for the 32bit archs

wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/185.18.04/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.04-pkg1.run -O NVIDIA-Linux-185.pkg.run

and this driver is for 64bit archs

wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/185.18.04/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.04-pkg2.run -O NVIDIA-Linux-185.pkg.run

Regards
Iain

[KhaaL]

You're correct tinivole, the 185.18.04 drivers did it for me. I remember when you told me, but I've been able to make newbie mistakes skillfully lately so this was expected Joke aside, i guess i got confused from the odd versioning of the drivers (185.18.04 being newer than 185.19).

regarding the gcc error I just thought it would be handy to include in the original post, in case someone else stumbles upon it.

Cheers!

[akoskm]

I have some specific graphic issues on booting. I need to start my laptop without splash screen unless it show just green stripes. Additional boot parameters to avoid this are

noapic nomce nosmp

. My problem is when I'm logging into a failsafe terminal session and typing

sudo /et/ini.d/gdm stop

my screen just goes blank, and I need to force shut down my laptop. So, how can I go to console session to compile the driver?
Thank you!

[KhaaL]

akoskm,have you tried booting into recovery mode (or with the boot parameter single)? that should drop you into a console without X.

[ibuclaw]

I have some specific graphic issues on booting. I need to start my laptop without splash screen unless it show just green stripes. Additional boot parameters to avoid this are

noapic nomce nosmp

. My problem is when I'm logging into a failsafe terminal session and typing

sudo /et/ini.d/gdm stop

my screen just goes blank, and I need to force shut down my laptop. So, how can I go to console session to compile the driver?
Thank you!

That is understandable if you are still on tty7, which is used for the X server screen.

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console tty.


As to avoid the splash screen on boot up:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

And find this section:

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash quiet

and this section:

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.30-rc4-tazo
uuid 88a38f8c-38bb-4739-9d6f-b66ac4c5d630
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-rc4-tazo root=UUID=88a38f8c-38bb-4739-9d6f-b66ac4c5d630 ro quiet splash quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-rc4-tazo
quiet

And remove the word "splash" from each line. (note: yours may look slightly different).

Then Save+Quit and run:

sudo update-grub

All other extraneous options that you have in effect should no longer be required.

Regards
Iain

[xloadedx]

Hey I gotta thank you for the awesome how to it worked like a charm. Everything went as you said it would, too.

I'm running an 8800 GTS with Jaunty

[Posterus]

Hey guys,
I'm having a weird issue with no luck of finding a solution for it. I ran through the tutorial exactly as stated using the 180.19 64 bit. I have 2 nvidia 9800GT's. During the installation I was prompted with a message saying that it can't open libglx.so for read and saying it doesn't exist when it does. can anyone help me out?