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**Ant2ne** · Jun 18, 2007, 10:01 AM

Re: Help with Nvidia card 64bit

search "nv", "nvidia" & "xorg.conf"

**askrieger** · Jun 18, 2007, 07:43 PM

Re: Help with Nvidia card 64bit

The easiest way to get the nvidia proprietary drivers is to install the following packages with your favorite package manager (K>System>Adept Manager):
"linux-retricted-modules-<YourKernel>"
"nvidia-glx-new" and
"nvidia-settings". These will drag in one or two other things as well.

What is <YourKernel>? Start a konsole (K>System>Konsole) and run the command "uname -r". Copy down the output. That's <YourKernel>, so you obviously have to do this before you start fooling around with Adept.

Then use Konqueror to navigate to the /etc/X11 directory. Right click on the file xorg.conf. Click on "edit as root. Find the line that says

Driver "nv"

Change it to say

Driver "nvidia"

Some people will tell you to use Automatix, other people will tell to use a script called Envy. If you take either of those suggestions you stand a good chance, (maybe 20%) of clobbering your system. If you do it the Kubuntu way, you stand a 95% chance of getting it right (you might screw up copying <YourKernel>, you might mis-spell "nvidia")

**dibl** · Jun 18, 2007, 07:54 PM

Re: Help with Nvidia card 64bit

I'm only 99% certain on this, but I think you do NOT want to install the package nvidia-settings, ONLY nvidia-glx new. I think nvidia-glx-new, which contains the proprietary Nvidia driver, will include the command "nvidia-settings" which runs the utility panel for the driver. I recommend you try it just as askrieger says, but without the nvidia-settings package the first time, and see if you have success.

**askrieger** · Jun 18, 2007, 08:14 PM

Re: Help with Nvidia card 64bit

Dibl is probably right. I don't actually have the nvidia-settings package installed myself and my nvidia board runs fine. However, I thought that I may be missing out on some of the fancier settings in "System Settings" by not having it. I'm not a big eye-candy freak.

**dibl** · Jun 18, 2007, 08:21 PM

Re: Help with Nvidia card 64bit

For my Feisty Kubuntu installation, I used nvidia-glx-new (plus linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`) and got a great result.

For my Feisty Ubuntu 64-bit installation, I got a better result using Envy. Go figure -- it's the same hardware ...

**Bauldrick** · Jun 20, 2007, 06:25 AM

Re: Help with Nvidia card (6150 LE) 64bit

I'm REALLY struggling here.

I've got 3 other computers running Kubuntu and only my laptop gave me the slightest bit of grief setting up. This is nuts.

I've tried:

Manually installing
Automatix2
Nvidia's own installer
Envy

None of these worked, I've always had to go back into xorg.conf and change driver "nvidia" back to "nv" so as to get X back.

However, after purging nvidia* and then reinstalling (I forget exactly what) I got the same result as always - that upon booting the Kubuntu logo appears with the bar that fills and then a black screen for a few secs , followed by the Kubuntu screen with the bar underneath that doesn't fill, then just a black screen.
So I boot into recovery mode this time, change nvidia to nv and then /etc/init.d/kdm start and I get 1024x768

(but the screens in the wrong position)

Is it me and something I've done, or is this ridiculously hard to setup?

---edit---

actually it looks as though the latest kernel is ****, I shall try < 20-16

**dibl** · Jun 20, 2007, 06:41 AM

Re: Help with Nvidia card (6150 LE) 64bit

I'd say it's ridiculously hard to setup ... :-X

Did you remember to delete the nvidia-xxx files from /etc/init.d/ between trying the various methods? Other than that, I think you've done everything except burning chicken feathers and praying to the little monkey-god. :P

**Bauldrick** · Aug 07, 2007, 03:45 PM

Re: Help with Nvidia card (6150 LE) 64bit

OK - so Kubuntu is hardly used on this pc because it's probably only 9/10th's working (by that I mean the missus can't do what she needs to do without screaming for help every 20 mins)

My gripe?

In the other OS my resolution with this card is 1280x1024, not with Kubuntu.

At the moment I can only use "nv" driver. Installing "nvidia" (no matter what and how (glx, glx-new - synaptic, manually) just gives me a command prompt after reboot

First off, a while back it detected my monitors sync range in dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and I went along with that (can't remember what it was), it called it generic monitor I believe. Then I questioned the sync range and read that running ddcprobe | grep monitorrange should give me my monitors range - it did 30-80, 55-75. So I entered that into /etc/X11/xorg.conf then decided to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg again for kicks and it tells me my monitor is "1704B" (which it is!! yeeha). Wow, now it tells me that the resolution it can use IS 1280x1024, so I let it write it all to xorg.conf and try to restart it - gets me the command prompt, botherashens! (That's all using nv driver)

I've had much less success with installing nvidia driver, always comes back to command prompt - although sometimes I've seen the nvidia logo come up just before the command prompt

Does anyone use this card and can point me to exactly how to get it up and running as it should?

Links I've read (for my own benefit mainly)

**dibl** · Aug 07, 2007, 04:45 PM

Re: Help with Nvidia card (6150 LE) 64bit

I have the 7900GS, but it says here that the latest driver will run your 6150.

So, it looks like maybe you need to try something different. How about the Envy script installer? Review the instructions, download it here (you want to download the file "envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu6_all.deb" about halfway down the page). With the downloaded file on your Desktop (or somewhere where you can browse to it with Konqueror), right click it, choose "Kubuntu Package Menu > Install", and let it install itself. Then, go to your KMenu>System menu and click the Envy icon, and it will install the Nvidia driver for you.

Let us know when you've got success (i.e. you're seeing the green and black Nvidia splash prior to the login screen), and then we'll set a 1280x1024 default resolution, if that's what you want.

**Bauldrick** · Aug 10, 2007, 04:04 AM

Re: Help with Nvidia card (6150 LE) 64bit

I gave up on Nvidia and thought I'd upgrade to Gutsy and see what happens.

After running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and rebooting I again got the command prompt, this time though I restarted kdm and up came the login prompt!! (hoorah) Then I set the screen to 1280x1024 and all is good!

Would like the nvidia driver, but I think thats broken in Gutsy? It won't install it anyhow.

I thought the driver should work from their site, but then I saw http://www.nvidia.com/page/legacy.html and am totally confused as to what I should use.

Anyways I have a new problem if anyone can help

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3085702.0

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