HowTo: NViDIA 185.18 Drivers in Ubuntu

[ibuclaw]

Well, I've done what you said and rebooted. It installed some extra stuff. The good news is i had no problem at the reboot (those extra lines you talked about). The bad news is that i have the same problem last time. I continued with the guide and when i place the "INSTALLING AND BUILD DEPS" (second step) code I still get the following:


trivi@trivi-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
Package linux-headers-2.6.24-24-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package linux-headers-2.6.24-24-generic has no installation candidate


Hmm maybe it can be usefull if you know that i had the 8.04 hardy installed at first, then i had loads of problems and someone told me it could be because the laptop is relatively new and there are some drivers 8.10 intrepid could have. Soo.... I decided to upgrade to Intrepid. I made all the upgrades i could do (368 if i remember well) and then i upgraded to the intrepid. I dont know if this may be usefull to you (maybe i made a mistake or something).


Ahead of time, i thank you a lot!!!

Press Alt+F2 or open a terminal and type in:

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Then scroll down the file for this section (near the bottom):

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.29.2-rt11-tazo
uuid e73aecdc-d940-4584-aa0a-34c9b726d48e
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.2-rt11-devo root=UUID=e73aecdc-d940-4584-aa0a-34c9b726d48e ro quiet splash quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29.2-rt11-devo
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.29.2-rt11-tazo (recovery mode)
uuid e73aecdc-d940-4584-aa0a-34c9b726d48e
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.2-rt11-devo root=UUID=e73aecdc-d940-4584-aa0a-34c9b726d48e ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29.2-rt11-tazo

title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid e73aecdc-d940-4584-aa0a-34c9b726d48e
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

Yours will look different, of course.

These stanzas are operating system boot lines that tell grub which files are where.
If you copy everything from ## ## End Default Options ## down, and paste here, that would be great.

Regards
Iain

[Trivi]

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=55e20200-2c83-4650-9984-5fd5a91c5efc ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=55e20200-2c83-4650-9984-5fd5a91c5efc ro single i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, memtest86+
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

Ohh yeah, i remember another thing regarding to the menu list.
I just have one line of kernel and its recovery while i had 4 (and for what i know, everyone has four). I entered to the menu list and saw that it guided to the same root so i erased one of the lines (i did it trusting a friend of mine who also did that, still, my friend is not that good at ubuntu)
oh... and of course, the other two repited lines dissapeared.

regards!

[ibuclaw]

That is very strange, Ubuntu should add new kernels to the menu.lst file automatically as you install them. Maybe

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=55e20200-2c83-4650-9984-5fd5a91c5efc ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=55e20200-2c83-4650-9984-5fd5a91c5efc ro single i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, memtest86+
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

title Ubuntu 8.10 test
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=55e20200-2c83-4650-9984-5fd5a91c5efc ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet

Use:

gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

And paste in the above that is emboldened. Placement is important.

Save, then reboot, and when the boot menu shows, press Esc, and scroll down to the "Ubuntu 8.10 test" line, and press Enter to boot into it.

How did you upgrade? by the way.

The supported way is through the Update-Manager, or by running:

sudo update-manager -d

[patchido]

ok, he got help from me to update, in real life, it is there, it was just a menu.lst that didnt update, kernels are there xD strange but u r correct

[Trivi]

heyy well... thanks for that, i did what you said and continued with the second step of the guide which it works...

then i get back to the "original" kernel and that second step of the guide doesnt work (which maybe is obvious for u )

i continue doing the guide at the test ubuntu?

BTW, it said everything was ok (0 updates, 0 things to install, 0 everything)

thanks

[ibuclaw]

heyy well... thanks for that, i did what you said and continued with the second step of the guide which it works...

then i get back to the "original" kernel and that second step of the guide doesnt work (which maybe is obvious for u )

i continue doing the guide at the test ubuntu?

BTW, it said everything was ok (0 updates, 0 things to install, 0 everything)

thanks

Yes, you can move it up the file now so it will be the first stanza to boot.

gksu /boot/grub/menu.lst

Cut the pasted text you put in and scroll up to near the top of the document.

You will see something like this:

#
# examples
#
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
#
# title Linux
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

Paste it in before the ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST line, and alter the title.

#
# examples
#
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
#
# title Linux
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=55e20200-2c83-4650-9984-5fd5a91c5efc ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=55e20200-2c83-4650-9984-5fd5a91c5efc ro single i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

It will now appear as the first option to boot from. You may choose to uninstall the hardy kernel afterwards, since the changes are you may not use it again...

Yes, continue with the guide from the 2.6.27 kernel. Let us know how it goes, and good luck.

Regards
Iain

[Trivi]

ok im just afraid of doing so -.- lol.

i just paste the little part which enabled the ubuntu test or also the kernel and recovery kernel which is near the bottom?

its because in your example, the bold parts are the kernels which you didnt specify to move.

thnx

[Trivi]

ok just forget the last post, i just obeyed and understood what you meant. I didnt read the part of "hardy kernel" lol... thanks... now let the game begin

now... what about the recovery mode of the intrepid kernel?

[Trivi]

hey there, i got into a cool adventure (i know sounds geek ). At removing the X servers, the first time i saw some letters but the laptop hybernated (which i though meant it was done since it wouldnt hybernate if it was working). I couldnt get out of the black screen with all this commands so i just closed it with the power botton which worked fine (and i believe it was the only/right way isnt it?) then i tried to install the driver and it didnt work so i tried again to eliminate the X servers but now, the screen just kept dark and did nothing, so I pressed alt + f4 and logged into my laptop. I tried killing the Xorgs and it didnt let me do it. Then I found the install code (last code entered) and entered it to the laptop. It said that the X file wasnt there and that i needed some kernel stuff in order to do it. So ubuntu extracted the files it needed and i proceeded with the installation. Then I rebooted and everything looks better (i dont have the 800x600 resolution anymore). The strange thing is that supposedly I was the one who killed Xorg and removed the X server stuff, but it look like ubuntu did it on its own.

I am supposing that all this was actually the right thing to do since i couldnt proceed being logged in as usual and suddenly i could do it when the dark screen was on.
or should i put the code: sudo reboot??

[Trivi]

hmm ok I continued "playing" with all this codes and stuff... everything seems the same just that the driver doesnt work. I pasted updated (or "updated") the Nvidia pasted the part of the script of the other thread, saved, quited, then installed it with the code you placed.

Now... I installed the -386 kernel and it was a big FAILURE inbetween the codes which made me almost cry

Sometimes when i reboot the "nvidia beta" picture appears as if it was a subliminal message and sometimes it doesnt.

The essencial stuff doenst work (for example, i cant make my desktop a cube)

shall i uninstall all and start from 0??? (which id rather prefer if its possible)

i really dont know where did i get lost.

thank you