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Old 10-08-2009, 12:42 AM   #1
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Nvidia gfx card driver issue


Hi

My screensaver seemed to run very slowly so I clicked system/admin/hardware drivers, this told me that Nvidia driver version 180 was available, I clicked 'activate' and now I get errors on boot-up. When I try to activate the driver again it just thinks for a couple of seconds and then stays inactivated.

I've tried running the driver installer from Nvidia but that says that I'm running an xserver and therefore fails although I did drop to the terminal CTRL+ALT+F2 and stopped gdm first.

Please could someone help out here? I don't know what info you guys will need.

I'm running Jaunty 9.04 and its an Nvidia GeForce GTX295.
 
Old 10-08-2009, 01:15 AM   #2
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If the NVidia installer says X is running, then you should believe it. From the console, after stopping gdm, enter this command:

ps ax | grep X | less

You'll get a display of all processes that have X in them. You should easily be able to identify the X-windows process (it is named X). Once you have identified it, kill it with the kill command.

Then install the NVidia driver using the NVidia installer.

Note that, to do this, you need to have the gcc toolset on your system and you need the proper kernel headers.
 
Old 10-08-2009, 06:44 AM   #3
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You will also need to purge any Nvidia packages you installed via the package manager before running the downloaded driver from the Nvidia website.
 
  


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