HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu Breezy

[kenito443]

never mind just figured it out-sorry

does anyone know how to get xorg.conf to recognize dual monitors,..thx in advance

[kenito443]

ahh man i feel dumb--i used the twin view option and it worked fine..but i big thanks to tselliot alot of help from your guide thanks!

[tseliot]

I can access the configuration menu I made, but there are only 4 checkboxes, I don't see any refresh rate or resolution settings like in the Nvidia manager for windows.

It's ok, this is not Winxp

^^^ I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS!! ^^^

It looks like a segmentation fault. You might have problems with OpenGL.
Can you try to open XMMS and play a song (make sure the codecs are installed)?

weird that 'smeg' doesn't work. is that command a joke or am i being noobtastic?

and YES I did RESTART please help me !!

You're absolutely right. I guess the author of that guide is a bit Gnome-centric (just kidding, I really appreciate your work ArtificialIntelligence )

The truth is that "smeg" (which is ONLY a menu editor) won't work for you since it comes with Ubuntu (=GNOME desktop) while Kubuntu (=KDE) has it's own menu editor (as I

[tseliot]

Wow. So I tried Method 2 at the beginning of this thread and got to step 6 (reboot) after I recompiled the kernel. When I try to load the new kernel, the system hangs on

*Checking battery state... [ok]

and just stays there.

I have had the worst luck lol!

Do I have to be using 2.6.12-10-386 kernel for the latest nvidia drivers?

Thanks guys!

Did you recompile the kernel? Are you sure? And how did you do that?
In method 2 I suggest to install a new kernel.

A quick fix:
Turn on your computer and keep pressing ESC until you get to the GRUB menu.
Select your previous kernel and press ENTER.

[acorrigan]

I followed the instructions exactly, but I got an error message that the nvidia module is already loaded. To get back into KDE I rebooted, but now my computer stopped booting

[tseliot]

I followed the instructions exactly, but I got an error message that the nvidia module is already loaded. To get back into KDE I rebooted, but now my computer stopped booting

I need you to reproduce the error.

Set the nvidia driver in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or if it's already set leave it as it is.
When GDM (or kdm) crashes at startup Press CTRL+ALT+F1
Then type

Then:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (if you use GDM)

OR

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop (if you use KDM)

startx -- -verbose 5 -logverbose 5

You will get the same error.

sudo cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /home/your_username/Xorg.0.log
(Of course you have to replace "your_username" with your username)

and post the content of that file (which you can find under /home/your_username/Xorg.0.log )


BTW if you want to access the GNOME or KDE again you can use this quick fix:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Set the driver back to "nv" instead of "nvidia"
CTRL+O to save
CTRL+X to exit

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (if you use GDM)

OR

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop (if you use KDM)

Then

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start (if you use GDM)

OR

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start (if you use KDM)

[acorrigan]

thank you for the help tseliot.

Unfortunately, the booting freezes before it even gets to kdm. I'll see if I can switch to a console from where it freezes. I'll have to try tonight as I just got to school for the day.

[tendo]

mine is working now (i think) i can run glxgears and it showed like 20K FPS. how can i see if im using the "bleeding edge" driver or the "legacy" one. i know this is a pretty stupid question, but that's how i roll.

[tseliot]

mine is working now (i think) i can run glxgears and it showed like 20K FPS. how can i see if im using the "bleeding edge" driver or the "legacy" one. i know this is a pretty stupid question, but that's how i roll.

Post the output of this command:

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

[tseliot]

thank you for the help tseliot.

Unfortunately, the booting freezes before it even gets to kdm. I'll see if I can switch to a console from where it freezes. I'll have to try tonight as I just got to school for the day.

You can try this then:
Turn on your computer and keep pressing ESC until you get to the GRUB menu.
Select "Recovery mode" (the xserver won't be started therefore it shouldn't freeze)
Then use the commands I suggested before.