Restricted NVIDIA Driver in Kubuntu Hardy Heron
Uncategorized May 1st, 2008
Have you experienced a booting problem in Kubuntu 8.04 every time you enable the restricted NVIDIA driver? I thought it was just a minor glitch and can be resolved by re-installing the driver but I was wrong. It appears to be that the new NVIDIA driver in Kubutu’s add/remove programs is not compatible to my video card, which is an old GeForce FX 5200.
Why do we need to enable the video card driver? Silly question isn’t? We’ll for linux newbies, the NVIDIA driver will allow you to enable the cool desktop effects and play games in linux. You’ll still have a pleasing desktop even if it’s not turned on but adding the cool 3d effects will definitely blow you away.
Now, how do you resolve the boot-up problems after enabling the NVIDIA driver? Easy, just use the old driver in the Adept Installer (Add/Remove Programs). I don’t know if this is also true to other NVIDIA cards.
Here’s how:
- Click the K menu > Go to Add/Remove Programs > Search for ‘NVIDIA‘.
- Uninstall the previous driver, unchecked it and click apply.
- Go back to the list and this time check the NVidia binary X.org driver. Click Apply and restart your PC. Everything should be working right now including the compiz desktop effects. Enable Compiz under System > Desktop effects.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 am
Hi, do you have any idea why is not working for me. ?
the driver was installed succesful, but even to change my resolution i can not….
Kubunut KDE-4 Hardy Heron
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
hey andys! what’s your card? were you able to load the old drivers?
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Hi deric, its ok now.
Happy here.
Tq
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:24 am
alright! that’s good to know.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:37 am
Hey guys, I’m glad I found this blog, you have good perspective!
Say as a tech person could you suggest where to download drivers for my HP 6820s notebook?”
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:52 pm
On Kubuntu, I activated the nvidia drivers v185 (recommended) for my nvidia 6150 se vga.
But the problem is I am not able to see the increased resolution in my nvidia-settings reolutions list. It shows only 640×480 and below.
Actually I was on 800×600 before without drivers, but after installing it, it switched to 640×480. What might be the problem? The same driver worked flawlessly in Ubuntu.