Installing a video driver?

[jacatone]

After installing Kubuntu 8.10, I installed Envyng and it recommended the nvidia-glx-96 driver. After installing that, it asked to reboot which I did and ended up with a black screen requesting my login username and password. Tried entering startx and kde& but that didn't work. What's the best way to install a video driver in this distro? Thanks.

[sithlord48]

Re: Installing a video driver?

well let me tell you as a user of the nvidia-glx-96 driver, i installed my driver first via "jockey" the restricted driver manager, and that failed to work correctly , then i installed EnvyNG i uninstalled the driver (using envy) after a reboot i reinstalled the driver (again w/ envy) and it worked after that..
here is my xorg.conf file (slightly modifided)

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	DefaultDepth	24
	Option	"AddARGBGLXVisuals"	"True"
	Option	"UseDisplayDevice"	"DFP" <- this line makes the screen show on my laptop screen
	Option "DPI" "96x96"<- my dpi was to large by default 
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"glx"
	Disable	"dri2"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver	"nvidia"<-proof i am using the nvidia driver
	Option "RenderAccel" "0" <- fixes messed up menus on non kde4 apps
EndSection

i have the following packages installed for my video (installed by envyng)

nvidia-common
nvidia-settings
nvidia-96-kernel-source
nvidia-glx-96

also these (i think these come by default to help find drivers)
nvidia-71-modaliases
nvidia-173-modaliases
nvidia-177-modaliases
nvidia-96-modaliases