Installation problem

[Avi Greenbury]

Alan Duval wrote:
> Ubuntu obviously doesn't have drivers for ATI and
> Nividia. I installed PCLinuxOS and it works. PCLinuxOS has the drivers
> and GOS must have them also.

It doesn't ship with the ATI or NVidia binary blobs, but I think they're 
in the repos. And it should gracefully degrade to the vesa driver or 
similar anyway. I've certainly never had issues using the free video 
drivers on NVidia hardware.

> That presents a problem with Ubuntu. How can I install these drivers
> when the system freezes with mouse movements or when I use the keyboard?

Boot into recovery mode, which might not crash, and download the drivers 
from NVidia's or ATI's website, then follow the instructions.

Else you'd need to boot with no GUI, then acquire and install the driver 
that way. Check whether recovery mode works first, if not I'll give more 
details on this way.

Either way, the installation itself, certainly for NVidia, requires X to 
not be running.

> They would need to be installed during the Ubuntu installation process.

No, they can be installed (and uninstalled if you like) on a running system.

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Avi Greenbury