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First you need to make sure you have nvidia disply card go to System—> Administration— > Restricted Drivers Manager
Now you should see similar to the following screen here you need to Check the box to enable the drivers
Enable Nvidia drivers popup here you need to select Enable Driver
Downloading the nvidia drivers in progress
Installing the software in progress
Nvidia Drivers installation completed.Now you need to reboot your machine to start using your nvidia drivers.
Yeah, that’s great for n00bs (I was one). The driver that the repositories call “glx-new” are not new. The newest nVIDIA Linux driver is 169.09 which you won’t see for another year from the repositories, I’m sure. Idiotic Imp? Jolly Juxtaposition? Klever Klump? Merry Marigold? Where do they get the names for the releases, anyway? All you have to do is download the newest driver from nVIDIA’s website, press Ctrl+Alt+F1, stop Gnome/KDE/Xfce, install the driver, start Gnome/KDE/Xfce, and you’re done. Badda-bing, badda boom. Just watch the Update Manager and don’t install a kernel update. Don’t worry, Hardy Heron is on it’s way.
The next version after Hardy Heron will be called Intrepid Ibex, and will be released in October. The names are Adjective Animal. That should’ve been the codename for the first release! Mark Shuttleworth chooses the names, and I think they’ve been descriptive and unique. That’s marketing.
When i click on enable driver nothing happens & dialog box just closes. Any help????????
Well I got a 6600GT AGP. And now I suddenly have a max resolution of 740*400. And I can’t disable the driver anymore
I’ve got Hardy Heron installed on my PC at the moment,my current graphics card is an Nvidia 7900GS,when I go into the relevant menus to enable the driver,it says that it’s already enabled,I don’t have an internet connection at home so I can’t download it using my PC,I have to use an eMac at work.
Wouldn’t it be so much easier to offer a CD or DVD of Drivers that can be ordered through the mail at the Ubuntu website?
Mark(#1 above),
Do you have a list of steps for the windows noobs out here? I have been trying to place the nvidia file into my temp directory and run it from there with no success.
JK
My fx5200 AGP installation when well on Ubuntu 8.10 [new install]
BUT nVidia set refresh rate to 60mHz [correct] and system=>preferences->screen resolution : set rate to 50mHz doh!
RESULT: each window title bar, got corrupted on screen.
FIX: changed screen refresh rate to 52mHz IT WOULD ONLY ALLOW 50/51/52 in dropdown, still wrong [want 60] saved. When I retried screen resolution it had magically set itself to 60! and I have gotten my titles back!
I have dual boot (windows xp and ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn) hp dv6000 notebook. i followed these steps. when i rebooted my system, screen turned black and stayed that way till i restarted system. i search net and find that i need to sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
that fixed system in a sense that i was able to see my desktop etc. but my graphic card drivers are not installed. my screen resolution is poor (1024×786).
any idea what should i do?? by the way i am new to linux
I’ve got 8600GS from Nvidia, everything worked with 1024x res, until I’ve tried to update the driver… now it’s all saying drivers are installed and it’s in use, but I have 800×600 res now, and driver is not loading, everytime I restart PC it loads in lowest graphics…
cant understand and find the answear in the whole Google system… plz anyone out there, any sugestions!?
I fixed my problem by installing envy
http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
Install this and let it detect you hardware and configure drivers.
Best of luck (Y)
Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing ?ffff85
I’ve been trying for ages to install nvidia drivers on ubuntu, and have given up in frustration (and reverted to XP). The method above doesn’t work because the list is completely empty, no drivers appear in it. Plus the machine is not on the net and won’t be, so I can’t use that method. Manual install doesn’t work either, despite getting the correct legacy driver from nvidia’s site, ubuntu complains it hasn’t got the compiled kernel, tries to compile it, and just says ‘failed to rebuild’ with no explanation. Hopeless. It appears impossible to run a Ubuntu installation unless it is on the net.
Great instructions!
Now, how do you do it without an internet connection?
I have a similar situation as pv. I am naive enough though to continue to try and make it work
I am on the internet but I don’t have the nvidia drivers listed in the drivers dialog. Reverting to XP is going in the wrong direction. There has to be a way to make this work in Ubuntu. Any help?
You are a very smart person!