HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu Breezy

[tseliot]

SCRIPT UPDATED:
I've fixed a bug in the Reinstall function that didn't allow you to leave your xorg.conf unconfigured.

[blknit]

Set it up in this way:

Plug & Play OS   NO

Internal Graphics Mode	Disabled

Will try with "Plug & Play OS=NO"

Thanks

[tseliot]

UPDATE: Now my scripts support Driver 8762

Enjoy!

EDIT: WARNING that version seems to break my Nvidia TV-OUT!

[way2evil]

hey can someone help me i have problems with xserver it wont load the GUI see here. thank you
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=180665

[tseliot]

A new version of my script is now available (0.34a)
I have polished the "uninstall" function a bit and improved several things

[Mohammad Ansarin]

hi.

i don't understand any of the above, and i have a FX5500. i want to know if it works with the drivers u listed. and most importantly, my linux live doesn't work with my card and shows colorful vertical lines. is something wrong with my driver, or do i have to upgrade it to one which can work on ubuntu linux?

bye and thanx

m a

[tseliot]

hi.

i don't understand any of the above, and i have a FX5500. i want to know if it works with the drivers u listed. and most importantly, my linux live doesn't work with my card and shows colorful vertical lines. is something wrong with my driver, or do i have to upgrade it to one which can work on ubuntu linux?

bye and thanx

m a

If it "shows colorful vertical lines" it means that your card is not supported by the open source driver ("nv") which comes by default with Ubuntu.

You have to install Nvidia's proprietary driver ("nvidia") by following this guide or using my scripts.

[tseliot]

My script has a name now: Envy

A new version is out: 0.35 (It's a bit more polished than before)

[Michelangelo]

My script has a name now: Envy

A new version is out: 0.35 (It's a bit more polished than before)

I´ve tried your 0.34a version on my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS latest release, with nvidia scritps 8762... and suddenly my X doesn´t start anymore

It says something that GLX modules are unavailable...

(had nvidia-glx drivers installed from ubuntu and worked fine...)

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also... I´ve been trying with your scripts to update nvidia drivers because I´ve tried a zillion times to get Xgl + compiz running on my box..
and never got it working...

I get always the same results..after following the guides posted here carefully..
x starts... and if I choose to start compiz... the bars of the windows dissapear, and I cant move none of them or resize..or nothing (until I use metacity --replace)

And that is from the best results I got..

the error is always the same:
compiz: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz: No managable screens found on display :0.0

believe me I´ve tried everything...
checked the LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mesa/lib.
then tried to check with glxinfo..but got "badalloc" errors or something..
also tried to resolve the libx"something".so.1 thing...
also installed from 0....

I´m not sure...but I really think that mesa is doing some troubles on amd64.... because on my work I got it working using an intel 915 card and ubuntu I386

please...can you help me?

thanks anyway..
Mich

[tseliot]

I´ve tried your 0.34a version on my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS latest release, with nvidia scritps 8762... and suddenly my X doesn´t start anymore

It says something that GLX modules are unavailable...

(had nvidia-glx drivers installed from ubuntu and worked fine...)

--------------------
also... I´ve been trying with your scripts to update nvidia drivers because I´ve tried a zillion times to get Xgl + compiz running on my box..
and never got it working...

I get always the same results..after following the guides posted here carefully..
x starts... and if I choose to start compiz... the bars of the windows dissapear, and I cant move none of them or resize..or nothing (until I use metacity --replace)

And that is from the best results I got..

the error is always the same:
compiz: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz: No managable screens found on display :0.0

believe me I´ve tried everything...
checked the LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mesa/lib.
then tried to check with glxinfo..but got "badalloc" errors or something..
also tried to resolve the libx"something".so.1 thing...
also installed from 0....

I´m not sure...but I really think that mesa is doing some troubles on amd64.... because on my work I got it working using an intel 915 card and ubuntu I386

please...can you help me?

thanks anyway..
Mich

1) about my script: make sure all your repositories are enabled. If you don't know how to do that you can post the content of your /etc/apt/sources.list

2) to access the Graphical interface again:

sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and set the driver to "nv" (or "vesa") instead of "nvidia" in the Section Device of your xorg.conf

CTRL+X to exit (save the file)

then type:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart (or "kdm restart" if you use KDM)

3) I don't use XGL therefore I think you should ask the ones who wrote the guides about it.

Just for now, please remove XGL otherwise the nvidia driver might not work.