[ubuntu-za] Problem installing Ubuntu 9.10

[Jason Plank]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Tim Johnson <tim at pteq.net> wrote:
> Jason,can you give me a quick HowTo to install the latest nvidia driver
> (v190) in Karmic?
> Thanks

Hi Tim.

I haven't checked if it's in the repositories yet, and I haven't
installed the driver from nvidia. It's it's in the repositories, you
should just need to go to the shell and type: sudo apt-get install
nvidia-glx-190
Then it should download the files if your internet is connected. Once
it's done you just type sudo nvidia-xconfig. That should setup
/etc/X11/xorg.conf for you then if you reboot you should have 190
installed. You may have to run sudo apt-get update first to refresh
the repositories.

Jason

>
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:01:42 +0200, Jason Plank <plank.jason at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> Sorry for top posting
>>
>> I managed to fix the problem. I had to go into recovery mode and from
>> the shell setup my neotel connection and update apt and get the latest
>> nvidia drivers and activate it. Then it just worked no hassles. It look
>> like the default display driver doesn't like the nvidia 7600 gs card :-)
>>
>> Thanks for all the suggestions
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lee Sharp" <leesharp at hal-pc.org>
>> To: "Ubuntu South African Local Community" <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Friday, 30 October, 2009 21:45:05 GMT +02:00 Harare / Pretoria
>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Problem installing Ubuntu 9.10
>>
>> Jason Plank wrote:
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> I hope someone can help me out. A friend of mine downloaded the 32bit
>>> iso for me and I burned a copy tonight. The livecd works fine on my
>>> friends pc. I tried to install via Wubi and also run the livecd on my
>>> system, but I get a weird error. It get's to the part where it should
>>> load gdm, then it just stays at the text and the screen just flickers.
>>> I really don't know what to look for as I haven't had a problem like
>>> this before and 9.04 worked flawlessly. My PC is AMD Athlon 64 bit, 2
>>> gig RAM and 256Mb nvidia 7600gs. Any help would really be appreciated.
>>
>> Your "failsafe gnome" is failing. You can try some video boot options.
>> You can also try the alt-instal cd to upgrade, or install, and vix the
>> video after. It will work with that card, but it is not working with it
>> now.
>>
>> Lee
>>
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