by buschbarber » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:02 am
Well, no matter what I would do, the drivers would not install. I even tried reinstalling Ultimate Edition 2.7 and immediately installing the Nvidia drivers. I tried Purging all the Nvidia stuff, rebooting, and reinstalling the drivers, but they kept failing to install.
I would reboot, login, hit Ctrl/Alt/F1, login, and then run the following:
sudo service gdm stop
sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24-pkg2.run
Finally, I saw a thread that suggested the following code:
sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24.run -k $(uname -r)
The drivers installed without error and when I rebooted, the Nvidia logo appeared as I was booting up. Nvidia Settings does not appear in the System/Preferences menu so I thought the drivers were still not installed, but when I clicked on System/Preferences/Monitors, I get the following box?
It appears that your Graphics Driver does not support the necessary extensions to support this tool. Do you want to use your Graphics Driver's tool?
When I say Yes, the Nvidia Settings box comes up.
Asus P5Q Mobo
4Gb Corsair Ram
Intel Core 2 Quad 9400 2.66Ghz
Nvidia Gforce 9800GTX+ PCIe 512Mb
Realtek ALC1200 8ch Audio Adapter
WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI
3 SATA Internal HDD - 250Gb, 250Gb, 500Gb
Ultimate Edition 2.8 64bit, Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and Windows 7 64bit