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Originally Posted by unisol
when i try to install nvidia drivers for my nvidia geforce 5500 agp i get the error message cannot find libedata1.2-2 is missing in newline when i check it is installed it also says E: subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code 1 my xorg.conf file is# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
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Erm, well that doesn't really make much sense to me. I can't think what the libedata1.2-2 might have to do with the nvidia driver.
how are you trying to install the nvidia driver?
You can either try to install it via one of the package manager facilities (adept, synaptic, apt, etc) or you can also just get it from
www.nvidia.com and follow their instructions.
I would suggest that you just open a terminal window and do
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sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx && nvidia-kernel-common
which should normally do the job. If theres been some updates since you installed (where talking new kernel here) then it maybe that you have to re-write/configure your apt-sources list - theres an excellent site for assisting with that at
http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic
If you try the route via the nvidia site then you would have to check what kernel you are running - open a terminal window and then do
that gives you the kernel version number - note it down and make sure you have the kernel-headers for that kernel (if you open synaptic package manager -> systems>synaptic then it's located by linux-image-xxxxxxxxxxxxx and should be listed as kernel headers for - and you want the ones that correspond with the kernel you're running. Then get the latest driver from nvidia.com and just follow their instructions.
Either way, you would have to check the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure that the line suggested by jstephens84 is amended accordingly. If you think you have the nvidia driver installed then you could just change it and re-start the session if you ended up at with it not starting i.e. you're left with the ubuntu splash frozen/not doing anything, then you can just hit alt+F4 and then alt+F1 to return to a console login and change the xorg.conf back to "nv" (if you know that it's gonna work and look for further assistance)
regards
John
