Nvidia driver problem

[Francis Marsden]

Using Ubuntu 10.04. My ATI graphics card failed and I just had it
replaced with an ASUS/Nvidia GT520 Silent 1GB DDR3 GeForce. I
uninstalled ATI drivers via Synaptic and installed all the available
Nvidia drivers via Synaptic. Under 'System'-'Administration'-'Hardware
Drivers' it searches and then says 'Nvidia accelerated graphics driver
(version current) is in use and activated. There are options for two
(earlier?) drivers which are not activated. But when I go to 'System'
-'Administation' 'Nvidia X-server settings' I get a message saying "you
do not appear to be using the nvidia x driver. Please edit your X
configuration file (just run nvidia-xconfig as root) and restart the
X-server" . Also, when i go to system-administration-system testing and
try the video tests, none of them seem to work. Can someone tell me
what to do? I am not a power user and have no idea how to edit a
configuration file. TIA

[Mike Easter]

Rather than edit the configuration file, I think I would rather install
the proprietary driver from NVidia.

Go to this page http://www.geforce.com/drivers

(I'm using the manual search function there)

and select whether you are doing 32 or 64 bit

It shows me this page http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/47533

... for x86 linux drivers for a whole bunch of NVidia including GeForce
500 Series - GeForce GT 520

Linux Display Driver - x86
Version 304.43
Release Date Mon Aug 27, 2012
Operating System Linux 32-bit
Language English (US)
File Size 37.54 MB

(notice that brand new release date)

Also that page has a link to a very useful readme which should not be
neglected

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.43/README/index.html
NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver README and Installation Guide

especially #4

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.43/README/installdriver.html
Chapter 4. Installing the NVIDIA Driver

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[JEDIDIAH]

On 2012-08-27, Francis Marsden <fa...@fake.fake> wrote:
> Using Ubuntu 10.04. My ATI graphics card failed and I just had it
> replaced with an ASUS/Nvidia GT520 Silent 1GB DDR3 GeForce. I

Regardless of any of your other difficulties, you probably need
to set up an alternate repository so you can get a newer version of
the nvidia driver. Just search google for ubuntu 10.04 nvidia PPA.

[deletia]

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[Dan C]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:26 -0600, Francis Marsden wrote:

> Using Ubuntu 10.04.

Why?

That's two and a half fucking years old.

Update your shit and things will work fine.


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[Melzzzzz]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:26 -0600

Perhaps you have Nouveau Driver installed and running.
Either black list it, or simply uninstall, after that proprietary
Nvidia driver will took of...

[JEDIDIAH]

On 2012-08-27, Dan C <youmust...@lan.invalid> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:26 -0600, Francis Marsden wrote:
>
>> Using Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> Why?

I can think of one really good reason: Unity.

[Silly Rabbit]

Open a terminal window, type:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
and hit Enter. Then give your password, and Enter again.

It's probably going to tell you that an existing file wasn't found, and
it wrote a new one. Close the terminal window, and reboot.

[J G Miller]

On Monday, August 27th, 2012, at 16:33:01h -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:

> On 2012-08-27, Dan C <youmust...@lan.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:26 -0600, Francis Marsden wrote:
>>
>>> Using Ubuntu 10.04.
>>
>> Why?
>
> I can think of one really good reason: Unity.

But you do not have to use that as your window manager/desktop.

Just install the packages for KDE, XFCE, enlightenment, fvwm,
icewm or whatever and use an alternative window manager for
the time being whilst Ubuntu still includes X11.

Better still switch to Linux Mint and avoid having Unity
installed at all.

[JEDIDIAH]

On 2012-08-28, J G Miller <mil...@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
> On Monday, August 27th, 2012, at 16:33:01h -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>> On 2012-08-27, Dan C <youmust...@lan.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:26 -0600, Francis Marsden wrote:
>>>
>>>> Using Ubuntu 10.04.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>
>> I can think of one really good reason: Unity.
>
> But you do not have to use that as your window manager/desktop.

You can't use what you were using before: namely GNOME2.

[deletia]

That's the biggest problem with this whole Unity nonsense. It's
not that Canonical wants to go off the same cliff as everyone else.
It's that the legacy option got destroyed in the process.

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[J G Miller]

On Tuesday, August 28th, 2012, at 12:05:53h -0500, JEDIDIAH stated:

> You can't use what you were using before: namely GNOME2.

Can not the MATE packages from Linux Mint repository be installed?

[Roy Strachan-12]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:20:06 +0000, Dan C wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:26 -0600, Francis Marsden wrote:
>
>> Using Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> Why?
>
> That's two and a half fucking years old.
>
> Update your shit and things will work fine.

Why? Desktop environment maybe?? No Punity!! Yay!! In most cases the
Ubuntu supplied drivers for 10.04 work fine. I have actually had more
problems with nVidia and 12.04; sometimes requires the drivers from a PPA,
though I think we have gotten past that problem.

[Roy Strachan-12]

I am running both the nVidia supplied drivers and those supplied by
Ubuntu (on different computers). The disadvantage of the nVidia drivers
is that they must be rebuilt and reinstalled every time there is a kernel
change. There is a script supplied by nVidia that does most of the work
for you but the Ubuntu supplied drivers don't require any intervention at
all.

[Roy Strachan-12]

It's pretty hard to beat GNOME 2. I tried a couple of versions of Mint
and personally didn't like them, though it seems a lot of people do.

[JEDIDIAH]

On 2012-08-28, J G Miller <mil...@yoyo.ORG> wrote:

It's not quite the same thing. MATE is a hastily put together fork
that has a number of it's own problems.

It shouldn't even be necessary to begin with.

Given that I actually use MATE rather than merely talk about it,
I would still recommend avoiding Ubuntu 12.04 for the time being.

If it isn't broke, don't fix it.

[Norman Peelman]

On 08/28/2012 01:05 PM, JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2012-08-28, J G Miller <mil...@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
>> On Monday, August 27th, 2012, at 16:33:01h -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-08-27, Dan C <youmust...@lan.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:26 -0600, Francis Marsden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Using Ubuntu 10.04.
>>>>
>>>> Why?
>>>
>>> I can think of one really good reason: Unity.
>>
>> But you do not have to use that as your window manager/desktop.
>
> You can't use what you were using before: namely GNOME2.
>
> [deletia]
>
> That's the biggest problem with this whole Unity nonsense. It's
> not that Canonical wants to go off the same cliff as everyone else.
> It's that the legacy option got destroyed in the process.
>

What's wrong with Gnome Classic? I just installed gnome (from USC)
and logged into Gnome Classic... looks pretty close to the same... but
looks can be deceiving.

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Registered Linux user #461062
AMD64X2 6400+ Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

[Charlie Gibbs]

In article <slrnk3puj...@nomad.mishnet>, je...@nomad.mishnet

(JEDIDIAH) writes:

> On 2012-08-28, J G Miller <mil...@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, August 27th, 2012, at 16:33:01h -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-08-27, Dan C <youmust...@lan.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:26 -0600, Francis Marsden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Using Ubuntu 10.04.
>>>>
>>>> Why?
>>>
>>> I can think of one really good reason: Unity.
>>
>> But you do not have to use that as your window manager/desktop.
>
> You can't use what you were using before: namely GNOME2.
>
> [deletia]
>
> That's the biggest problem with this whole Unity nonsense. It's
> not that Canonical wants to go off the same cliff as everyone else.
> It's that the legacy option got destroyed in the process.

They want to go off a different cliff.

I run Mint on my laptop, while I've left my wife's laptop
on Ubuntu 10.10 (Gnome is still rather nice, especially for
inexperienced users). My Slackware 13.37 box runs xfce.

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