nividia drivers

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I ran into some problems.
> 
> Control/Alt/F1 took me to a prompt.  /etc/init.d/gdm stop stopped the x
> server.   Then I ran sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.14-pkg1 and the NVIDIA
> installer came up.  It said it could not find a kernel and tried to download
> one from nvidia.com but could not find the server so it asked to create a
> kernel, which I allowed.  Then it said it would have to start in some basic
> graphic mode, then asked something else I've forgotten but have to do with
> video and '0' and F5.   Anyway after that all it would give me is a command
> promt and 'exit' did not work.   I then rebooted and ran safe mode and asked
> it to repair broken packages, which asked me if i wanted to remove obsolete
> packages, to which i said  yes.  Then I was able to load Ubuntu but
> System/Preferences/Nvidia does not work (says not running nvidia drivers).
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.
> 
> 
> gary
> 
> 
	Why are you using the bash file from Nvidia? You can get several Nvidia
drivers from the repositories. I just got one for this Jaunty and it is
working great! Number 180 I think it is.

73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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