Ubuntu 7.04 - nVidia 8800 drivers

dragon2309

dragon2309

P.I Dragon
Ok, so i know the drivers exist i have them on my desktop right now, but installing them, thats another thing...

Heres what i have been doing so far:

  • Downloaded the drivers
  • In terminal tried "sh [path to drivers]"
  • It said i didn't have enough privileges so tried in sudo and got a bit further
  • Now it gets into the install screen, but tells me i have an X server running... well of course i do, surely it's running the damn graphics that im viewing on, lol
  • It says to continue i have to shut down the current X server, any ideas on how to go about this as i'm stumped already
Thats about it.

Cheers, dragon2309
 
You will want to write these instructions down because you will not be able to see your browser while implementing them...

1) First backup your xorg.conf file in case something goes wrong:

Code: 
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup

2) Then, make sure you know the path to the driver you want to install.

3) You can't install while running x so press CTRL+ALT+F1 to get into tty1

4) Type:
Code: 
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

5) run you install command:
Code: 
sudo sh <path_to_driver>

6) when it is done, restart x:
Code: 
 sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

That should take you back to your login screen.

If you run into trouble, replace your backup xorg.conf:

Code: 
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Hope this helps.
 
thanks for all of that info, some of it didnt work, but it got me that bit further so i managed to complete the isntallation. it now says that restriceted graphics drivers are in use. All well and good but it still doesnt give me widescreen resoltuoins like 1440x900 available, is this simply not supported by ubuntu or what?

cheers, dragon
 
Yeah, that part was tough for me also.

I was playing around doing a bunch of stuff, and none of it was working, so I shut down when I had to go to work, and when I came home I had my 1440x900 resolution.

So I don't even know what worked for me.

I would suggest going to http://www.ubuntuforums.org and searching there. Lots of knowledge available. Search before you post because there may be someone who already solved it.

Good luck.
 
ok, thanks munkyeetr

*EDIT* - just rebooted fully and went back into my account... sure enough there was 1440x900 in the list of res's in the X server config application.... strange that it didnt appear first time round...

anyway, all is great now, so thanks a million
 
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