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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Ubuntu 10.6 nvidia drivers? 11

Journal by Em Emalb

Hey folks.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.6 and am having problems with my nvidia drivers on my laptop.

Anyone offer any advice?

Automatix didn't find anything for me....

thanks

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  • But the latest version of Ubuntu is 6.10... That's what I downloaded monday.

    Can't help you: I only had problems with proprietary drivers. Sorry, I stick to 2D.

    • sorry,was in a hurry....6.10....that's what I meant.

      thanks.

      • No problem, Em... That's what friends are for.

        So, as Otter asked: the NVidia driver or the nv driver? The nv driver never made me any problems. That's what I meant with 2D

  • Nividia's driver or the nv driver? What's the problem?
  • Just kidding. What exactly are the problems? If it's knocking and pinging we might have to switch to high test.
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  • My MythTV box runs Gentoo, but it's using the binary-blob nVidia driver (build 9746) without any issues. emerge nvidia-drivers builds nvidia.ko for the currently-running kernel. I'm guessing Ubuntu, being a binary distribution, doesn't do that, but whatever you do to install the driver should dump a kernel module in the appropriate space. Is nvidia.ko loaded properly, or is there some error in the log when it tries to load it? If the module is loaded and your X config is good (has it worked before?), it
  • I think it is a licensing issue. Do some googling on 'debian nvidia' I know they've worked it out. Debian is the basis for Ubuntu. Google around, you'll find it. Keep asking for help when you get stuck.
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      • Re: (Score:2)

        by rdewald ( 229443 ) *
        Well, there ya go.

        I just loaned out my only machine with NVidia hardware. I had continued to put up with a win32 OS install on this laptop because I didn't want to futz with all this NVidia hassle. A few days ago a friend of mine needed a loaner, so I sent it on to him for a while.

        By the time I get it back I'll be able to easily upgrade the OS. Good news.

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