How-To: Install nVidia Drivers in Ubuntu 7.10

If Compiz and/or Desktop Effects aren’t working, your nVidia video card (should you have one) may not be using the “restricted” nVidia drivers. In this video I show you how to get them. It’s actually pretty simple.

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  • areskz

    How to do this in Kubuntu?

  • kdaskdh

    It is not necessary to reboot the computer after installing nvidia drivers.

    You should do:

    1º Exit your session
    2º Press Ctrl+Alt+F1
    3º Login
    4º Type sudo /etc/rc4.d/S30gdm stop
    5º Press enter
    6º Type sudo /etc/rc4.d/S30gdm start

    That’s it.

  • krokodil

    Great!

    A good follow-up for this would be instructions for those stuck with non-functional (under linux) dialup connections. I tried the nvidia drivers, but it wants the source tree, which I dont have.

    The past couple of days, I’ve been hunting for the NVIDIA-drivers-for-ubuntu.deb packages, but so fat didnt find them. Can anyone give me a link to somewhere in the repository (for 7.10) where they reside? Thanx.

    By the way, kdaskh, great tip. That’s something every *nix user should know. It took me two weeks to figure it out myself.

  • ferhan

    Thanks a lot for video. I did the same thing but I am getting the following error:
    Cannot install ‘nvidia-glx-legacy’

    This application conflicts with other installed software. To install ‘nvidia-glx-legacy’ the conflicting software must be removed first.

    Switch to the ‘synaptic’ package manager to resolve this conflict.

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