Idiot's Guide in Installing Nvidia and Monitor Drivers and Flashplayer in Opera
Hi! I just installed Ubuntu 6.10 and I am happy except that since I am a newbie, I find the interface a little bit overwhelming. Now, there are things that I want to fix in Ubuntu and i followed the ubuntuguide and for some reason I can not make it work or is It just me? Are the things we suppose to do should be done in terminal? Can someone show me the things that I should do "step by step"?
1. I am using a 7600 GS graphics card. How do I install the drivers? How do I know that the drivers are installed already? 2. How do I set the resolution? The drag down bar in Screen Resolution seems to be stuck in one setting? Should I install the driver for my monitor? I am using an LG 17-inch CRT. 3. I am an Opera user. My problem is I can not install the Flash Player correctly and I thin that you have to intall a component called Open Motif, how do I do this? Quote:
Here is the guide on how to istall Flash Player. Quote:
Sorry for these questions, I tried searching but could not find the right answer. I hope someone here is kind enough to teach a complete idiot to resolve my problems. Thanks in advance! Sorry if I posted here and not in the newbie thread. |
With regards to your video card, you can follow the instructions HOWTO: Install the Nvidia driver on Edgy Eft.
With regards to the resolution: Edit your X11 configuration file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf; you need root privileges) and change HorizSync and VertRefresh in the section monitor to match the specs of your monitor. The bold values below need to be changed (the given values match my monitor). Code:
Section "Monitor" Code:
Section "Screen" I can't 100% help you with regards to the opera question. I've installed EasyUbuntu on my Dapper Drake system. It gives access to some stuff (like flash and codecs) that is not available through Ubuntu. You can try to install flash from there. PS: I don't have an Ubuntu system at hand, so can't tell you how to edit the X11 configuration without using vi |
@Wim Sturkenboom
Thanks a lot! :) |
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