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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

install nvidia drivers in ubuntu 10.04

Asked by Neil

Hi
Having trouble installing nvidia drivers in 10.04. I have the 9600gt Ubuntu drop the drive and I can not install them using hardware driver in system.
I have tried this http://ubuntuguide.net/install-latest-nvidia-graphics-drivers-in-ubuntu-linux but terminal will not connect.
Have also tried the commands
CTRL-ALT-F1 then
sudo /etc.init.d/gdm stop

then tried to run the the command sudo sh '/home/goof/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24-pkg1.run'
it starts to install I agree the the licence. then it say that it can not find the kernel tree and stop there and then saying installation have failed.

please help

I dont have the diver installed

regards
Neil

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Robert Key (robertkey) said : 		#1

Hi I had the same problem and this is how I fixed it.

I appended this to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist amd76x_edac
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv

These modules will block the nvidia driver.

I download the driver from http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk
and ran it from the command line as root.

you can do sudo -i
and then you will stay in root and get all the environment variables.

Hope this helps.
Robert Key

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Robert Key (robertkey) said : 		#2

Hi sorry you also need to install the linux-headers for your kernel

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` should do this for you

Check the link /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build to see that it does point to your kernel sources in /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`

You can also nvidia-xxx-xxx.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` --kernel-name=`uname -r` if you are running the kernel you want to install to. if not just fill in the `uname -r` with the other kernels details.

Eg `uname -r` will return 2.6.32-generic-22 if your kernel is linux-image-2.6.32-generic-22.

Cheers,
   Rob Key

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said : 		#3

Hi
Thanks for your help but nothing seems to work. backing up everything and going to wipe. and reinstall that will fix it (I hope lol)
Regards
Neil

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Robert Key (robertkey) said : 		#4

Hi Neil, sometimes a reinstall is the quickest way. I have clobbered the X server and couldn't fix it. Reinstall was the best option.

Since I reinstall quite often you can set it up so you boot off a USB hard drive with the CD image in the root directory or a link to it at least, this is much faster than using CDROM.
Cheers,
  Rob