[ubuntu-za] nvidia graphics

[Deon Spengler]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:10 +0200, miles sharpe wrote: 
> >  done this yet for the TNT2. Here is the link for the legacy drivers from nvidia's site.
> > 
> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_71.86.11.html
> > 
> > These drivers are for 32-bit Linux. I will attempted to help you install these drivers but I need to highlight some problems
> > that you will most likely run into sometime down the line.
> > 
> > 1.) You will have to reinstall the driver after kernel updates.
> > 2.) You will have to reinstall the drivers if you do a dist-upgrade.
> > 
> > Ok now that you know what the risks are here is what you can do.
> > 
> > 1.) download the driver and make it exacutable
> > 2.) press Ctrl+Alt+F1, then login
> > 3.) now we will install needed software with the following "sudo apt-get install build-essential" 
> > 4.) after the above command completes type the following "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop"
> > 5.) navigate to where you downloaded the driver to
> > 6.) now type the following "sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.11.pkg1.run
> > 7.) follow the on screen instructions, you will to a point where the installer will ask you if it should try and
> > build the drivers for you (or something along those lines) answer yes to this.
> > 8.) now the drivers should be installed, now type the following "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start"
> > 
> > That should be it and you should be back to a graphical desktop.
> > 
> > If you have any more question or need further help, just ask and I will try and help.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Deon
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Deon. I am using 9.04.
> I am very happy with it except for this graphics thing.
> I have already used synaptic to get nvidia 96
> Must I first go and remove them before I try your commands.
yes you should remove them first. However if 71 is in the repo for 9.04
use that, it should solve your problem. 71 is not in the 9.10 repo's and
the only option is to install the driver from nvidia if you want
hardware accelerated graphics in 9.10 for the TNT2

> I only have 623 ram according to ubuntu so I am scared to get 9.10 and
> sit with more problems.
9.10 works very well, for me and some of my friends it works better than
9.04.

Are you going to be at any of the launch parties? 

Regards

Deon