There are probably alot of questions about this issue since I found ALOT of nvidia with linux of every variety howto online. I have spent all night trying to figure out this problem, and now it's past noon... which I believe is entirely too long to install a friggin video driver. I want to throw this computer out the window after I pull an Office Space scene on it... but for some reason, I want to actually load ATLEAST 1 driver and have it work. - refraining severely from using obscene language, although I'm very tired and very frustrated with linux.

I have the following loaded on my computer (P3 733):
- ubuntu 6.06.1 LAMP server (fully updated)
- xubuntu desktop

uname -r says kernel version 2.6.15-27-server

My video card is a Nvidia GeForce4 TI 4200 w/AGP 8X rev. a3

I've used the respository to download nvidia-glx (did not try the legacy driver because it was not listed under legacy @ ubuntu forums). Went through the particulars of following the tutorial. I believe that one said to install it & then run the nvidia-glx-config enable....

After realizing that this would give me the "X server is now disabled..." message. I tried other howtos. The last one I tried said to install some restricted modules, so I installed the matching kernel version (in 386, not 686) of this module, and then enabled it (manually and also with the enable command).

I've tried manually setting the device to "nvidia" in the xorg.conf file, I've used the -enable command, but no matter what I do, if the device is set to "nvidia" my xserver will not load. It says it failed to load the nvidia module, x server disabled.

Everything is loaded, why won't it load?

Same kind of thing happened to me.

Make extra sure that the running kernel is the most current one. If you're a bit clueless like me, that's the problem.

Another easy way to tell:

$ ls -l /

The /vmlinuz should point to your most recent kernel. If it doesn't, then you have to remove it:

$ sudo rm /vmlinuz

and remake it:

$ sudo ln -s /boot/kernelversionhere /vmlinuz

Do the same for the initramfs thingy.

Should work (assuming you're not running the most current kernel.)

After like 8 hours, I FINALLY SAW THE NVIDIA SPLASH SCREEN! A MIRACLE!

I'm not exactly sure what I did this time around, but after a full reboot, I saw the splash screen. I love it so much that I'm not going to go further through the tutorial to disable it.

Only problem now is, I don't know if I'm running 1440x900. There is no option for it in the display properties, but default gets me to a proportional layout.

I want to install the compiz... but since my video card is a bit older and the tutorials I read said you had to recompile some file, and also some of the tutorials are outdated so the files from their repositories won't even download... I've fought enough with linux today. Maybe tomorrow!

I've spent 4 hours trying to get my Nvidia Quadro working and still no luck. The funny thing is that I found someone's blog on Google that mentioned how to install Nvidia drivers in a simple 1-2-3 step which worked successfully on my home computer. Seriously I got my Nvidia working in 2 minutes. Now, I can't remember what to do! Also, I can't find this person's blog anymore, and all the Nvidia guides are horrible! They don't work or are outdated.

Still trying to install Nvidia drivers on my Kubuntu 6.06.1 LTS.