Newbie, Nvidia drivers issue

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

keith dewitt wrote:
> Newly installed Ubuntu 8.10. Nvidia drivers 173 or 177 activated but
> not in use. I have EnvyNG installed. Trie to follow the directions,
> but not sure if I got it right. Tried to dl the driver from the
> website: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run, but not sure if I got
> that installed correctly either.
> Graphics hardware:
> nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100/nForce 630i
>
>   
Don't know if it can be of any help but this is the way I installed the 
driver for NVidia 8200:

- After a 8.10 clean install,

- I first checked in System/Administration/Hardware Drivers which was 
the recommended drive, either 173 *or* 177.

- Then found and installed the recommended driver through Synaptics.

- Only then activated in System/Administration/Hardware Drivers and it 
worked at once.

- (If required - if it is more recent) the driver from NVidia site can 
be installed from a terminal only after completely closing GDM.

L.

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