New NVidia drivers?

ithawtewrong · 11-02-2006, 12:26 PM

I've been doing a lot of reading on how to install the latest NVidia graphics drivers. I'd like to update to the latest since the one by default on Ubuntu has an exploit. I've tried doing searches for Kernel Source, Linux Tree, Nvidia and I've tried all the steps to install the latest. I have all the dev packages and NVidia modules installed, I keep getting hung up since I don't have the kernel source. The only source I can find is for 2.4.27 kernels and I'm using 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic, which was the one that installed when I did my initial install. Can someone point me on the right track. I'd simply like to be able to install NVidia 8776. I've done this on SuSE before and this is the only hang up I've had with Ubuntu to date.

Or is this something that the Dapper team will eventually update and become available in a couple of days/weeks?

Thanks

Redeye2 · 11-02-2006, 01:01 PM

You only need the kernel headers to compile new modules. To get them, type in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

ithawtewrong · 11-02-2006, 03:57 PM

Thank you Redeye2. I thought I installed that already and apt-get told me nothing to install. I must've missed it though. Worked great and things look so much better now.

Redeye2 · 11-02-2006, 09:31 PM

Glad to help

ithawtewrong · 11-02-2006, 10:18 PM

I actually had a problem on reboot and had several NVRM errors in the message log. The problem was that the older Nvidia and the newer one I tried to install were both trying to load. I don't know why it worked the first time, but I got the Nvidia splash screen and all was good until I restarted. I tried several steps to troubleshoot including removing nvidia-glx and the headers. I still had the problem and could only get it started with the nv driver. I researched some more and came upon an application called envy. I ran this and it worked great. If anyone else has this problem I recommend you give envy a shot. The program is basically a script that goes and removes then downloads the latest driver and installs it.

Redeye2 · 11-02-2006, 11:11 PM

I was having this problem, but it was a matter of removing the nvidia-common-kernel package. It was, as you said, trying to load both modules and a mess ensued.