Nouveau and Nvidia Drivers

[buschbarber]

I have installed and been running Ubuntu 10.10 for some time. When I realized that Ultimate Edition 2.8 was out, I installed it. I had no problems installing the Nvidia 3D drivers for Ubuntu 10.10, but I cannot seem to install them under Ultimate Edition 2.8. It seems to have something to do with Nouveau.

I did some Google searching on the subject and saw a post that said to Edit the entry in the Grub Menu and insert the word nomodeset after quiet splash. I could also choose nomodeset when I installed from DVD.

Is there a way I can get the latest Nvidia drivers installed with Ultimate Edition 2.8? Is there a reason why Ubuntu 10.10 is different in this regard from Ultimate Edition 2.8

[stanca]

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

[buschbarber]

Thank you!!

Can you tell me in layman's terms what Nouveau is all about?

Just as an aside, I have downloaded and burned Ultimate Edition 2.8 several times both on Windows 7 64bit and Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. Whenever I boot from it and try to and choose Test Disk, it hangs unless I hit F6 and choose nomodeset. Despite that, it always comes back with an error in one file OK1.debb.

When I burn OS's to DVD I always use the slowest speed.

[buschbarber]

Even after I purged Nouveau, I still could not install the latest Nvidia driver as I would receive the error message that the Nouveau driver needed to be disabled.

After installing the latest updates from Update Manager, I now have a Kernel ending in 23, and 22. I edited the Grub entry for 22 and added nomodeset. I booted and was able to install the latest Nvidia driver. I have not tried booting from 23, yet.

[pclinuxguru]

curious

I have installed 2.7 and 2.8 Ultimate Edition on a few systems now with 9800 GTX and 9800 GT GPU,s and have not had any problem installing nvidia drivers via additional drivers.

Never had to tweak a thing.

[buschbarber]

Once I added nomodeset to Grub, I had no problem installing the latest Nvidia drivers to 22. When I then booted in 23, it took me to a Terminal Mode Login. I installed the drivers, again, in the same way a 22, and they installed without incident.

I reinstalled Ultimate Edition 2.8 several times, just to be sure I was at a clean starting point. I did not reinstall again so I could see if it was really necessary to Purge Nouveau or it was just necessary to insert nomodeset. I have a stable system and the video driver I wanted.