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Nvidia drivers

Postby Foxblood » Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:36 pm

Hi, all,
Apologies if this is in the wrong place.
I installed yesterday and have spent most of today trying to get nVidia to play nice, to no avail. Envy simply won't do it (sorry Alberto). When I use Envy and reboot, it gives me a black screen, no mouse, no keyboard. If I use envy from the command line, I get the same result. Any other method gives me a horrible 640 x 480 or similar resolution and the option to change the nVidia driver that does nothing. The only way to get a 1280x1020 res is to boot into recovery mode and try to repair from there. That gives me the resolution that I want but the nVidia drivers aren't working. At this point, I've been going around in circles, getting nowhere for hours. I've searched here, the Ubuntu forums and the nVidia site. Has anyone else been down this road before? Is there something basic that I'm overlooking? Card is GeForce 8400, hardly the most exotic card out there. I've installed Linux many times and never encountered anything like this before. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby Cab » Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:41 pm

Umm I just wanted to ask are you running Hardy or Ibex ? Your sig is making me wonder. Sometime today I hope we can get 2.0 released then you can start all over :)
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby stanca » Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:47 pm

Have you tried with automatic option in envyNG? If you did it is possible that your nvidia video card or the kernel don't support the latest driver. Try the manual option again and choose an older driver,a legacy one. Good luck further.
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby Foxblood » Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:57 pm

I no longer have Mint, it's been overwritten by Ultimate Edition. If the new version is out tomorrow, I'll probably dl it and give it a try, I'm having precious little luck with this version. In the meantime, I'll see if I can remove anything installed by Envy and go with what strider5236 suggested.
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby Foxblood » Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:04 pm

stanca wrote:Have you tried with automatic option in envyNG? If you did it is possible that your nvidia video card or the kernel don't support the latest driver. Try the manual option again and choose an older driver,a legacy one. Good luck further.


Yeah, I've tried all of the options at this point. There were three driver versions to choose from but no indication of which was newer or older, so I tried them all. Thanks for the input, though. I do appreciate all help offered.
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby stanca » Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:51 pm

Still not working? I am sorry to see this. I hope that with the new UUE2.0 we'll have more success. <BREW>
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby LeadFingers » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:03 pm

Foxblood wrote:Yeah, I've tried all of the options at this point. There were three driver versions to choose from but no indication of which was newer or older, so I tried them all. Thanks for the input, though. I do appreciate all help offered.

In Newbie's Corner read 5 Which Nvida driver do I use, while the driver numbers will be a little off (it needs to be updated) it should give you a better idea of which cards are supported under which drivers.

That being said, Ultimate Edition 2.0 doesn't need or use Envy to install video drivers anymore, Hardware drivers does a real good job. if you wait for a little while longer, you could install 2.0 and not not face these issues. Much more streamlined, well worth a short wait!
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby TimelessRogue » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:55 pm

But ... if you absolutely want or need to get nVidia working, Hardware Drivers, as LeadFingers said, should do the job for you, probably giving a choice of a couple of drivers that will work for you and that you need to activate for whichever to work. Whatever you get as a choice, it should list the nVidia cards each will work with. I got a choice of 173 as "recommended" or 177 as optional and, trust me on this one, choosing the wrong one ... at least in my case ... resulted in, well, bad results (ie: black screen, no graphics, blah-blah-blah). If this happens, boot into recovery mode and change drivers ...

For more info on which driver to use, go to Administration>Synaptic Package Manager, scroll down to the nVidia drivers ... you'll find nvidia-glx-173, -177, -71 and -97 listed. Each will list the cards it will work with. By the way, back to Hardware Drivers, there should be a "recommended" driver indicated. Actually, you can choose the right driver here and install it via Synaptic ...
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby pch.shot » Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:02 am

I have a Nvidia and just used this:
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Re: Nvidia drivers

Postby TimelessRogue » Sun Nov 09, 2008 5:33 am

Exactly ...
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