display problems nvidia 8600gts

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Okay so I decided to install kubuntu on my desktop since I liked it on my laptop. using the same cd I used for my Laptop install I installed kubuntu on it's own hdd. I noticed during the install that the screen was the wrong size, had a hard time pulling the window to where I could see it, also flickering like mad. figured it would fix itself when I booted up the first time, however it did not. got a bubble in the bottom right hand corner about restricted nvidia drivers, but it didnt do anything at all when I clicked on enable this driver. Is there any way to do this through konsole? I can kindof see text in it but not really, unable to get to the kmenu, because I cant see the bottom bar. Help would be great

[flarson]

Re: display problems nvidia 8600gts

As root you should edit /etc/apt/sources.list.
kdesuo kate /etc/apt/sources.list
Uncomment the line that refer to restricted repositories. In fact you may want to uncomment all of the lines to use universe and multiverse as well. The deb-src lines are only useful if you want to build packages from source.

Then run
sudo aptitude update
and
sudo aptitude -f full-upgrade
That should download an updated list of available packages and then upgrade your system to use all the latest versions.

Then run
aptitude search nvidia
You should see numerous versions of a few nvidia packages. The ones you want are
sudo aptitude -f install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-source
That will also install other packages that depend on these. It should install 180 versions of the kernel and glx. After that you might need to run
sudo nvidia-xconfig
unless it asks you about changing your xorg.conf file as part of the install.

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Re: display problems nvidia 8600gts

I appreciate the Reply however I was able to fix the issue without getting too technical. I got lucky and had the balloon for software updates pop up where I could click it, updated everything rebooted. then when it got back in I tried resizing the bottom bar till it was large enough that I could see the restricted drivers thing, clicked on the recommended driver, installed and rebooted. works and looks great now. Now I want to figure out how to remove the old kernel version from my boot menu, but that's something I'm sure a search can fix now that I can look at my screen without inducing a seizure

[flarson]

Re: display problems nvidia 8600gts

Glad you got it working. Remove the old kernel package and it will be removed from the grub menu. It is a linux-image-2.6.xxx...