Installing a video driver?

If you want to install nvidia drivers manually you need to read the documentation. In your case it is located here..

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.21/README/index.html

However i think nvidia driver version 260.19.06 is in the ubuntu repositorys in the package nvidia-current which you can install easily via "apt-get install nvidia-current" if its not already installed.

Nvidia drivers are a closed binary and so we don't know what the installer does precisely and so its hard to tell what the pre-requisites are without reading the readme.
 
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masterluke said:
If you want to install nvidia drivers manually you need to read the documentation. In your case it is located here..

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.21/README/index.html

However i think nvidia driver version 260.19.06 is in the ubuntu repositorys in the package nvidia-current which you can install easily via "apt-get install nvidia-current" if its not already installed.

Nvidia drivers are a closed binary and so we don't know what the installer does precisely and so its hard to tell what the pre-requisites are without reading the readme.
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It is not.
http://img834.imageshack.us/f/screenshottk.png/
 
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can I beg to differ too? :)
 
Edward78 - i don't say this very often.. but I would suggest you dig out your windows cd and reinstall. You seem to be struggling with the simplest of tasks in linux and also appear incapable of clearly explaining problems or following advice given. This isn't the first time either.
 
masterluke said:
Edward78 - i don't say this very often.. but I would suggest you dig out your windows cd and reinstall. You seem to be struggling with the simplest of tasks in linux and also appear incapable of clearly explaining problems or following advice given. This isn't the first time either.
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Damn, you must be too pro to help. :eek:
 
fluff said:
Damn, you must be too pro to help. :eek:
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Maybe I was a little harsh :p I just find it frustrating that I took the time to find the information he needed to fix the issue and wrote what I hoped would be helpful - only to recieve a "It is not." response from the OP. This is more than a little annoying. I seem to remember almost the same thing happenning with a previous thread from the same poster before.

Linux can sometimes mean reading a little to get things to work smoothly and the OP clearly cant be bothered to do it.
 
I don't know why that package is showing as an old version on your system. Maybe your package lists arent updating for some reason. You can still install manually using the instructions I linked to.

EDIT - I take that back. I think its because you are on lucid and not maverick. For some reason the nvidia-current package is much less "current" on lucid. You'll need to manually install, or upgrade to maverick.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/nvidia-current
vs
http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/nvidia-current
 
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masterluke said:
I don't know why that package is showing as an old version on your system. Maybe your package lists arent updating for some reason. You can still install manually using the instructions I linked to.

EDIT - I take that back. I think its because you are on lucid and not maverick. For some reason the nvidia-current package is much less "current" on lucid. You'll need to manually install, or upgrade to maverick.
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I did yesterday. 10.10 still freezes, maybe I can get a pair of homeplugs to see if it freezes from the wireless.
 
masterluke said:
I don't know why that package is showing as an old version on your system. Maybe your package lists arent updating for some reason. You can still install manually using the instructions I linked to.

EDIT - I take that back. I think its because you are on lucid and not maverick. For some reason the nvidia-current package is much less "current" on lucid. You'll need to manually install, or upgrade to maverick.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/nvidia-current
vs
http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/nvidia-current
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& to the OP

the screeshot clip in post #7 is from my lappy running 10.04 LTS (lucid)!!

I use ubuntu tweaks

http://ubuntu-tweak.com/

A version has just been released for Maverick as well and for complete NooBs is an ideal, GUI based, interface to keep your install up to date and "tweak" it. It's also very good at making sure that you can free your system from all the garbage that can start to collect.

Sorry to hear that you are having so many problems with this "freezing" thing!!
 
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