Back to LQ for good. I have an HP Pavilion running Ubuntu and kernel 2.6.31-20. Screen resolution keeps defaulting to 800x600 whenever I reboot. I would like to make 1152x864 the default. My (onboard) video adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE. I think this is actually operator error. I have the latest driver on my desktop, but when I try to install it, I get
--installer must be run as root--

I have tried SU and anything else I can think of, even rebooting into terminal.

LSpci shows -----------------

jason@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 80)
jason@ubuntu:~$ ------------------


if that helps

I only have an administrator account set up, and have tried everything I can think of.

Any help???

try sudo su + your password to become root

or sudo executable-name

like sudo NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.16-pkg1.run

you may have to chmod it to make it executable

chmod +x name_of_script/executable

then execute it with ./name-of-script

do all that as root

to load nvidia module after installing do

modprobe nvidia

then do lsmod to see if its loaded

The Nvidia driver in Ubuntu repositories is perfect for that card. Install nvidia-glx package with synaptic.

--- warning ---
To avoid problems ALWAYS use the driver provided by the distro !!!!!

in your case Ubuntu
use your packagemanager to install it " synaptic" in this case

ALSO the driver you posted in the first post IS THE WRONG one for your card
see the nvidia page
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...195.36.15.html

using synaptic to install it would have used the correct one

Thanks Brains and John. Synaptic did it!

<Completely off-topic>

That quote is from Adam Savage,not Jamie.

LOL, thanks Trooper. I still love that show. My quote has been corrected.

You're welcome.
I'm a fan of Mythbusters too .