Hardware Drivers Manager Not Working

[glyphe]

I haven't seen this anywhere yet so hopefully somebody has some ideas. I've installed Intrepid on a laptop with GeForce Go 7600. So when I go to Applications > System > Hardware Drivers it says there are no proprietary hardware drivers. So I select the recommended one and a progress box comes up stating downloading and installing drivers. However, it sits at zero percent and never moves. After a while the progress box goes away, everything is greyed out on the Hardware Drivers and its locked up. I've let it go for an hour before thinking it might be doing something, but it always locked up and requires me to kill the process to close it.

Internet connectivity is fine and checking my firewalls logs there is no outgoing traffic at that time so its not even trying to connect anywhere at that point. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks.

[dibl]

Re: Hardware Drivers Manager Not Working

Anybody have any ideas?

Yep. Just give it up, Ctl-Alt-F1 to the console, and do this:

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install envyng-core

sudo envyng -t

Choose #1 "Install Driver" and then follow the prompts. When finished and you are back to your user prompt$:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

then

startx

[glyphe]

Re: Hardware Drivers Manager Not Working

Thanks for the assist. However, when I ran the commands I got a slew of error messages, and a seg fault. Obviously I have more issues here to research. However, since I also have issues (although I do have some workarounds) with the sound, wine, video and so on, I'm thinking my laptop doesn't like the cutting edge quite so much. Since I know some of my problems (sound for instance) are KDE 4 related, I think I'll drop back to 8.04 and wait for 9.04. That will give KDE/Kubuntu a little more time to mature. Thanks.