Please Help I'm New :(

[AdZr]

Alright people ive just installed Ubuntu and to be honest i havent got a clue what im doing, although ive just installed a few programs.

The thing im stuck on is that i think my gfx card on my laptop i dont think the drivers are installed, so what i did was i went onto the makers website and downloaded the driver for linux but i just dont have a clue on how to install it as everytime i try i get errors

Thanks in advance for any help

heres a screenshot of my problem

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9...eenshotbu7.png

[Jordanwb]

Try putting "sudo" (minus quotes) before the "sh S3G..." command. When you downloaded the file, what format was it in? .tar.gz or .tar.bz2?

[Kevbert]

Why don't you think your graphics drivers are installed ? If it's due to the fact that you can't run compiz (for the rotating cube), that's not due to a driver error as compiz will not run on the Via S3 display card (it's not currently supported).
You haven't got gawk installed. You can get this if you want via the terminal by entering

sudo apt-get install gawk

[AdZr]

still no good

cadam@adam-laptop:~$ cd Desktop
adam@adam-laptop:~/Desktop$ dir
Downloads RN_Linux_EN.txt Screenshot.png
Readme S3G-Linux-x86-2.0.16-pkg.run wine.png
adam@adam-laptop:~/Desktop$ sudo sh S3G-Linux-x86-2.0.16-pkg.run
[sudo] password for adam:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing S3 Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 2.0.16............................................ .................................
./setup.sh: 14: gawk: not found
./setup.sh: 14: gawk: not found
./setup.sh: 15: gawk: not found
./setup.sh: 15: gawk: not found
./setup.sh: 753: dialog: not found
adam@adam-laptop:~/Desktop$

[evets25]

First to answer your question, you probably need to put "sudo" in front of your command so that it can run as root (administrator). Secondly, you're doing it wrong. Installing the driver, that is. Well, ok, perhaps not "wrong" persay, but it will make your life a lot easier if you use a script like "envy" (sudo apt-get install envy) for installing graphics drivers called envy, or use ubuntu's restricted drivers manager (recommended) to install the drivers (System -> administration -> restricted drivers, or something like that).

If you really want, you CAN install that package you downloaded from the company's website, but that means that next time you do a kernel update, your graphics driver won't work and will have to be install the hard way from a recovery console... Just a warning.

[AdZr]

Why don't you think your graphics drivers are installed ? If it's due to the fact that you can't run compiz (for the rotating cube), that's not due to a driver error as compiz will not run on the Via S3 display card (it's not currently supported).
You haven't got gawk installed. You can get this if you want via the terminal by entering

sudo apt-get install gawk

well sometimes pictures & text go all funny and when i first boot up i get all lines everywhere for about 20 secs then it goes back to normal, thats why i thought there was somethink wrong and under screen resalution it says monitor unknown

also just tryed what you said and got this

adam@adam-laptop:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install gawk
[sudo] password for adam:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

[AdZr]

First to answer your question, you probably need to put "sudo" in front of your command so that it can run as root (administrator). Secondly, you're doing it wrong. Installing the driver, that is. Well, ok, perhaps not "wrong" persay, but it will make your life a lot easier if you use a script like "envy" (sudo apt-get install envy) for installing graphics drivers called envy, or use ubuntu's restricted drivers manager (recommended) to install the drivers (System -> administration -> restricted drivers, or something like that).

If you really want, you CAN install that package you downloaded from the company's website, but that means that next time you do a kernel update, your graphics driver won't work and will have to be install the hard way from a recovery console... Just a warning.

cant do 'sudo apt-get install envy' as it comes up with
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

also cant find restricted drivers manager

[Kevbert]

In terminal please enter

sudo dpkg --configure -a

and post the response here.
While you're at it, in terminal, enter

sudo apt-get install -f

in case you have any damaged software packages.
gawk is a package that your display card drivers need. So if everything comes up fine you'll need to install it (see my previous post).

[tarasin]

I suggest you do nothing until you have had a chance to read up on Ubuntu.
Try these:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php

https://help.ubuntu.com/

Everything can be resolved in time.

[AdZr]

In terminal please enter

sudo dpkg --configure -a

and post the response here.
While you're at it, in terminal, enter

sudo apt-get install -f

in case you have any damaged software packages.
gawk is a package that your display card drivers need. So if everything comes up fine you'll need to install it (see my previous post).

adam@adam-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for adam:
Setting up java-common (0.28ubuntu3) ...

Setting up odbcinst1debian1 (2.2.11-16build1) ...

Setting up unixodbc (2.2.11-16build1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
adam@adam-laptop:~$


now i just did the second one and it went fine but then it goes to a blue screen saying configuring java but i cant get past that