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Nvidia driver problem

Asked by devo85

I just put a Nvidia GTX 260 in my computer but I cant figure out how to install the drivers from the Nvidia website... when i do it says i have a problem with Xserver and gives me a .tar.gz file to fix it but im new to linux so i dont rly know how to run it. can anyone help?

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Charles Profitt (cprofitt) said : 		#1

Have you tried running the 'restricted driver' from the repos?

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devo85 (devo2021) said : 		#2

yeah... it tells me there are no available restricted drivers...

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Steffen Banhardt (steffenbanhardt) said : 		#3

Just to be sure, that this isn't a completly different problem: Please check first your kernel version with

uname -a

It should say something like 2.6.24-19-generic and not 2.6.24-20-generic (this kernel is only in the proposed sources and has some bugs - some people reported similar problems with this kernel)

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Charles Profitt (cprofitt) said : 		#4

Yes, please let us know the kernel with the uname -r also are you running Ubuntu 8.04?

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Charles Profitt (cprofitt) said : 		#5

any update?

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devo85 (devo2021) said : 		#6

Sry i havent updated this but i got grounded... i am running 2.6.24.19 ubuntu 8.04 64bit... the error message i get btw if i didnt already put this goes a little something like this

"you appear to be running an Xserver, please exit and try again"... then i try to run Nvidia-xconfig and it says i have a validation error...

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devo85 (devo2021) said : 		#7

Thank you to everyone that tried to help but i figured it out!
what i needed to do was

Press ctrl+alt+f1
login
download build-essential (sudo apt-get install build-essential)
download nvidia-xconfig (sudo apt-get install nvidia-xconfig)
stop gdm (sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop)
then run the drivers and they installed correctly!

Thanks again to all that helped