Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit Nvidia Geforce 8200 graphics driver problems

schaut · 06-25-2009, 08:54 PM

Hi,
When I enable the Nvidia accelerated graphics driver 180 or 173, my screen flashes rapidly on boot. Then it stops until I move the mouse to the top of the screen then it starts again. Has anybody had this same problem? Thanks in advance.

fragos · 06-27-2009, 04:45 PM

I'm running an FX6200 with driver 180 on 32 bit Ubuntu and all is fine. Is this a new install, ergo was it working? Have you just installed the FX8200?

schaut · 06-29-2009, 05:18 PM

The card is built into the mobo, this was a fresh install, I just recently installed ubuntu 8.04.2 to see if it was any better and when I installed the proprietary driver for my card X broke. Then I tried installing the most recent driver from the nvidia website after completely removing the old drivers and I got an error saying lib something was not installed. I would like to use 3D graphics but all the forums I have seen are no help.

mitchd123 · 07-01-2009, 03:01 PM

Same issue here with 9.04 on AMD64 with a nVidia GeForce 7300 SE. I applied some updates, and the nvidia / xserver stuff doesn't work any more.

I would like to isolate what broke it, but so far I'm stuck in low resolution mode after trying several changes. Can't play movies..and this is a Mythtv box. :-(

In fairness I did have some non-supported software sources, so I'm not sure exactly what is to blame.