baccilus
Cyborg Agent
Hi.. I am running ubuntu 7.04 (32bit) on the following system;
Intel P4 2.66GHz, 1GB RAM, 945 Mobo, XFX nvidia 8500GT(And this is the problem i guess). Well since only the latest nvidia driver supported my card I downloaded the latest driver from their website and installed it. This i could do since the first time i ran it, it ran the vesa drivers i guess. Then i realised that every time i restarted ubuntu, I had to re-install the nvidia driver(With sh command). Then i gave the gdm start command and it worked fine. Now, since i upgraded the kernel version of ubuntu, this started working.
I just get the command prompt, so tell me these things
1. How to install the very latest nvidia driver through apt-get(even if it's a beta verson)? I tried
apt-get install nvidia-glx
didn't work
2. Just in case i am not able to accomplish the above goal, how can i force it to boot with vesa driver. Tell me the command and all.
Waiting for the reply. Thanks in advance.
PS: If you need the error report to help me in this, tell me the program to be used in command prompt to read the log file. Will gedit work?
somebody help please. Or atleast give me some suggestion of what i should be doing next.
Intel P4 2.66GHz, 1GB RAM, 945 Mobo, XFX nvidia 8500GT(And this is the problem i guess). Well since only the latest nvidia driver supported my card I downloaded the latest driver from their website and installed it. This i could do since the first time i ran it, it ran the vesa drivers i guess. Then i realised that every time i restarted ubuntu, I had to re-install the nvidia driver(With sh command). Then i gave the gdm start command and it worked fine. Now, since i upgraded the kernel version of ubuntu, this started working.
I just get the command prompt, so tell me these things
1. How to install the very latest nvidia driver through apt-get(even if it's a beta verson)? I tried
apt-get install nvidia-glx
didn't work
2. Just in case i am not able to accomplish the above goal, how can i force it to boot with vesa driver. Tell me the command and all.
Waiting for the reply. Thanks in advance.
PS: If you need the error report to help me in this, tell me the program to be used in command prompt to read the log file. Will gedit work?
somebody help please. Or atleast give me some suggestion of what i should be doing next.
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