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nvidia driver crashing.

Asked by domcal

I have a nvidia GeForce 8800GT and I have tried running both the "new" drivers in Synaptic and downloading and scripting in the drivers from nvidia for linux. However. Xorg crashes and I can only get Ubuntu to run in low-graphics mode. (800x600 only). Is there anything else I can try?

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Ivan Lautaro Lemos (ivancete) said : 		#1

Hello

Try to change the line on the xorg.conf file, and add on display section: "nvidia"

if it don't work, try to use envy, an utility, that uninstall / re-install automatically the apropiate driver for your nvidia card

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

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hmfan (hmfan2-0) said : 		#2

Envy from my experience just borks things, last time I tried it, it installed but on a restart it fails to start anything after the boot loader does it's thing.

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domcal (dcalomino) said : 		#3

I have the same issue as hmfan commented about. Card will not auto-identify in Envy. Tried auto-installing the newest driver. System reboots and goes right back into low-graphics mode.

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hmfan (hmfan2-0) said : 		#4

well for me my card is an (Asus branded) Nvidia GeForce 6600 LE, but I get the same problem as the original question and trying Envy did as I said before. I have tried the suggested solution and it didn't make a difference. So now I wait for a true solution other than changing video cards.

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j3lc (j3lc) said : 		#5

which release of ubuntu do you use? I think the problem is that you must configure your nvidia settings as a root or else your configuration is lost everytime you reboot. Try 'sudo nvidia-settings' on a terminal

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