adding Nvidia drivers to ubuntu

[Papa6]

tried to install Feisty fawn 7.04 of Ubuntu, it locks up on me. my system isn't difficult but,

if you're new to linux, Ubuntu to be specific, read the quoted area to simply install the Nvidia drivers

Ubuntu does not ship with NVIDIA 3D acceleration enabled. Getting the NVIDIA Geforce video card working to it's full potential requires the installation of an additional glx driver package. The nvidia-glx driver will allow us to make better use of the Geforce type video card. The process is simple, however many tutorials make it more complex than need be.

The Process: (type EXACTLY as the bold text is)

1. Open a terminal and type sudo apt-get update

2. Type sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

3. Type sudo apt-get upgrade

4. Type sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

* Select the nvidia driver from the X server driver list and follow the on-screen steps to complete the configuration

5. Once finished with the configuration, hold down Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X server. You should be presented with a nice NVIDIA splash screen signaling that the driver is installed and working

6. You can test this in the terminal by typing glxinfo | grep direct (the output should be direct rendering: yes)

7. You can also type glxgears to watch your card at work

[firefly2442]

I think you can also go into System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers and if it autodetects you have an Nvidia card you can install the propriety drivers right there. But.. sudo apt-get install works too.

Played with the desktop effects yet?

[Papa6]

I think you can also go into System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers and if it autodetects you have an Nvidia card you can install the propriety drivers right there. But.. sudo apt-get install works too.

Played with the desktop effects yet?

Naw, can you give post a or make a tutorial on doing this?

[firefly2442]

In feisty, if you go to System -> Preferences -> Desktop Effects, you can turn them on. This is a new feature in feisty and this option is not there in Edgy. They only included a couple features like wobbly windows and some other small things in feisty because it's still considered beta software. But at least you can play with them a little bit. I think the next version of Ubuntu should have more graphical features available.

So here's the deal with the desktop effects. It all started with Compiz, but some people who worked on Compiz wanted to add even crazier effects and some of the Compiz people wanted to keep it stable and not have two billion things in Compiz. So they forked the project and split off to form Beryl. They released versions of Beryl which was widely popular and now finally they decided to work together again and merge the Beryl features back into Compiz, thus Compiz-Fusion.

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/

At least that's my understanding of it.

[Papa6]

I'm kinda stuck here.

I've tried multiple times to install Feisty but the damn thing can't find my SATA drive. it hangs on the search for the SATA drive. I think Feisty is past the limits of my system.

[firefly2442]

That's really odd. You might try posting on the official ubuntu forums. People there are usually very helpful. Do you have any specific error message?

[Papa6]

yeah it's a sata2 error that says unable to set xferm(transfer mode?) and the Sata drive locks the whole system up I have old legacy IDE drive interfaces inside my PC. but my Sata is usually set on my 4th channel master while the two IDE interfaces use 1 & 2.

That's really odd. You might try posting on the official ubuntu forums. People there are usually very helpful. Do you have any specific error message?

I have posted this at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/12828 and haven't gotten a response yet.

Edited September 6, 2007 by Papa6

[firefly2442]

I would try here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/

most people read the forums and not many people go on launchpad.