nividia drivers

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

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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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I seem to have a bunch of NVIDIA things installed already.  See the screen
shot.   Am I missing something?

Thanks

Gary
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