Proprietary drivers not detected for nVidia GeForce GTX 260 in Kubuntu 11.04

[veroslav]

Hi,

I have downloaded the LiveCD for Kubuntu 11.04 64-bit in order to try it out and eventually install it in case I like it. I have verified the MD5 checksum and the burned CD and they are both ok. I really do like Kubuntu so far, but unfortunately, when I boot the LiveCD and check for the hardware drivers, there aren't any.

I am expecting the drivers for my video card (nVidia GeForce GTX 260) to show up, because they do in Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, which is the system I have currently installed on my PC.

Does anybody knows why this is the case? I need to figure out this issue before I can proceed with the installation and I would be very thankful if somebody could help me out.

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards,
Veroslav

[oshunluvr]

Re: Proprietary drivers not detected for nVidia GeForce GTX 260 in Kubuntu 11.04

Be sure you have your kernel headers and dkms installed.

Open up a konsole terminal window and enter this command:

ac=$(uname -r) && sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$ac dkms

This should do it (if I wrote the command right! )