Problem installing Nvidia-glx file

[jacatone]

Trying to install the driver for my Nvidia GeForce 4 card. Downloaded the nvidia-glx file but keep getting the following error when I try to install it:

"Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?"

How do I fix this? Right now Kubuntu is displaying a resolution of 460 by 480 and I can't change it. Why does Linux have so many problems with video cards? Thanks.

[beowulf]

Re: Problem installing Nvidia-glx file


Try this:
sudo apt-get -f install

A way to install NVidia drivers that worked for me is:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
sudo nvidia-xconfig

And edit:

kdesu kate /etc/X11/XvMCConfig

and replace content for:

libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1

Restart KDE and ready.

Hope that helps!

[claydoh]

Re: Problem installing Nvidia-glx file

Why all the problems? that is easy. The graphics card manufacturers have closed spec and we have to rely on their proprietary drivers for all the goodies the cards can provide, and. They don't put too much work on linux drivers, and it is very hard for the coding gurus to recreate what nvidia do to make open drivers. (there is a project to do just this but it takes time)

As to your error message,

Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

it is saying it thinks you have Adept or some package manager running, but most likely it is just a corrupted 'lock' file. This file is present solely to prevent more than one package operation from running at the same time. The error message specifies which file is the one in question:
/var/lib/dpkg/lock
If you do not have Adept, synaptic or apt-get running, you should delete that file

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

and try installing the nvidia-glx package from Adept - it will install the correct package for your version of Kubuntu as well as any needed dependencies.
Then either manually edit your xorg.conf file, or run a command to do it for you:

sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

, and restart your gui. Sometimes I find a reboot is needed, but not always. Usually a ctrl-alt-backspace will get it going.