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xserver-xorg-driver-nv package

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I'm trying to install the Nvidia drivers for my vid card but was having a lot of trouble getting it to run. I got it to run and thought I had it whooped. Wrong. now it comes up and says "nvidia installer : Error opening log file blah blah blah and something about having to run it as the root. can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

1) Have you looked in your Menu for something called "Restricted Device Manager"?

It is a bit s-l-o-w, but does your video card show up in that?

If it does and you activate it ( and WAIT!) it will install the driver automatically. Then reboot.

2) When it says "something about having to run it as the root" it means put sudo at the front of the command (SuperUserDO) e.g.: sudo nvidia-settings

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Chuck (cbunker35) said : 		#2

Geting closer. now it says I'm running "X" whatever that is and I have to figure out how to close that.

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#3

There is a method of killing the xserver but easier is probably to boot into recovery mode (NOT the top on the boot list, but the second) and choose "drop into root shell with networking"

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Chuck (cbunker35) said : 		#4

There was no with networking option only drop into root shell. I tried it several different ways. I guess this just isn't going to work for me. I'll have to do some other digging around to figure out how to shut down the xserver. Thanks for all you help though.

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Chuck (cbunker35) said : 		#5

I guess I might have said this before but I'm on the Ubuntu 8.04 ver. trying to install drivers for Nvidia 9 series and the driver name is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.14-pkg1.run .

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#6

To shut down the xserver see http://theos.in/news/ubuntu-linux-shutdown-the-x-server/

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Chuck (cbunker35) said : 		#7

much better. I got the xserver shut down got my command line in and it started to install. I started seeing the info I read about seeing then got another error. Now it says no kernel.......I knew it would so it was supposed to go find on......like i was told it would......it didn't find one so I told it to make one. No big deal I thought. Until it came back and told me that I had no libic header files. I might not have those considering I have no clue what those are. if you have any help on this it would be greatly appreciated. if this doesn't work it's getting uninstalled and I'm going back to windows.

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Chuck (cbunker35) said : 		#8

ok, I got it. from termina; type sudo apt-get install build-essential. after that loads type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop. then sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.14-pkg1.run . all went well. Until, I got it all rebooted and loaded and now the best res I can get is 800x600!

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Chuck (cbunker35) said : 		#9

Never mind. It took 2 days but I finaly got it. I needed and extra reboot and now I'm back up to 1280x1024. thank you for all your help and patience.

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#10

Congratulations! Well done!