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Fooozball

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Running Ubuntu 11.10 and trying to install my 560 driver. I open up the terminal and type su. type in my password and get an authentication error. anyone know why? I'm a noob at Linux, and trying to learn. Thanks for your time guys.
 
Thanks wolfeking. Do you know the step by step commands to install the drivers? I already have it downloaded and saved in a location.
 
first off, lets rule out the easy. Did you try under Admistration -> Hardware drivers for them?

If that doesn't show your drivers Ill be happy to help you get your downloaded drivers installed.
 
did it list your NCP drivers in the additional drivers?

If so, you will not need to install again, as you have drivers installed. Kinda like topping off by driving across the street to the BP.
 
it should look something like this.
Screenshot-9.png


NCP is Nvidia Control Panel.
 
So it looks like i have the drivers installed? But... when trying to play CS:S my screen is basically all black. Running it through wine too...
 
that could be a wine problem, not a driver issue. Wine is at best hit and miss. I have yet to get a game to work under wine. The closest that I had was getting video, but no mouse integration or sound. Not the best FPS with that kinda error.

Office applications are much better in wine though.
 
as was said, WINE is hit and miss. It is not meant to be a complete windows replacement, but more of a temporary measure.

You may want to look into an application called "play on linux" i think its in the software center under games. It is a compatibility layer geared tord games.
 
Play on linux is just a poorly coded gui that attempts to use winetricks to get products to work. More often though, it fails miserably.

CS:S will run fine on there. Check this page:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3731
all the tweaks/steps needed are on that site.

Also might want to grab winetricks (it's a script) as well.
http://winetricks.org/winetricks
Right click it, save as winetricks.sh

run it in a terminal with (have to cd to the directory you downloaded it to first) so something like this:
cd /usr/yourusernamehere/downloads
sh winetricks.sh
From there, just answer it's instructions, and should help you out.

And yes, it looks like your drivers are correctly installed.
 
NyxCharon: For some reason It wouldn't let me navigate to /usr/matt/downloads. So I put "wintetricks.sh" in the home folder. I got to the home folder using "cd ..". Then I tried running sh winetricks.sh , and it told me it can't open. I saved the file as "winetricks.sh"
 
Alright, let me boot into linux and i'll see what I can do. I might have specified the wrong path by accident.

Edit: I was right, wrong path.
It should be like:

charon@crunchbang:~$ cd /home/charon/downloads
charon@crunchbang:~/downloads$ sh winetricks.sh

However, there's nothing specific to CS:S in it. It might be needed for other things though.

According to wineHQ after install through steam:
Select only "ALSA" sound driver in winecfg. OSS does not work anymore because Steam itself has sound open.

So run winecfg in a terminal.
Should pop this up. Make sure Alsa is the only selected sound driver ( I removed all the others one a while ago)
http://ompldr.org/vYnU0aQ/screen.png

Afterwords, in a terminal to start steam before CS, run:
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam && WINEDEBUG=-all wine steam -applaunch 240

Assuming you installed it to the default spot. This should get it to work. If not, let me know and we can try some other fixes.
 
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