nvidia driver

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)

Better places to get help are 
http://www.ubuntuforums.com
and/or the slightly more official
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

and/or the slightly more general
http://www.linuxquestions.org

It is worth registering at all three sites as they provide useful places to ask 
questions and have good systems for providing help & support.  There is even 
some good documentation in there.  The slightly more general forum covers many 
more distros, not just Ubuntu, so it can be better for questions such as yours.

There is also a forum specifically for NVidia
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

However, you might find opne of these pages in documentation more useful.  The 
first is one that can be edited by people registered with Launchpad so it might 
be more up-to-date and you might be able to add something useful yourself after 
trying the advice.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
There is an official drivers page at NVidia but i don't think they really 
understand linux/unix so take care with this!
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
This next guide is a year old but seems very straight-forwards and easy
http://eddieringle.com/how-to-install-official-nvidia-drivers-in-linux/

I added those links to the bottom of the Community Documentation page i gave as 
the first link.  I hope something in this mail helps!  Sorry it took me so long 
to reply.  I imagined that someone had dealt with this off-list directly to you.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)



________________________________
From: Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com>
To: t.n.telesnitsky at gmail.com
Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Fri, 11 March, 2011 11:52:39
Subject: Re: nvidia driver

Hi Tarik,

On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:43 +1000, tarik telesnitsky wrote:
> this e-mail is regarding the nvidia driver that you perscribed for my
> machine. its called the NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version
> current). my device is a duel graphics card laptop (asus ul30vt) and
> uses both an on board and dedicated vga. 
> 
> it took me a long time and a lot of reinstalling ubuntu 10.10 to work
> out the problem. This driver once installed restarted to enable it,
> makes my machine/ubuntu only boot to text mode. Considering this is
> "tested by the ubuntu developers" i would have thought is safe, this is
> partly the reason it took so long to identify the issue. I don't mean to
> harp on but it has cost me alot of time and frustration is all.
> 
> My vga is a Geforce 210M. Any advice regarding an alternative would be
> much appreciated as i need the graphics card to work as i use resource
> intense software. Thanks in advance and other than this issue i like
> what you guys do... alot!

Sorry for the delayed response. I'm afraid that this is not a support
list. You can get help and support from here:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Thanks,

Phil

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