Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia 331 update

2014-01-29 Thread SuperEngineer
Whoops - forgot to mention - using !2.04.03 ;) Dell Dimension E520 Samsung SyncMaster monitor and, importantly... graphics card is nVidia GeForce 210 (GPU 0) On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 20:51 +, SuperEngineer wrote: > Hi folks, > > following an update that also downloaded [& installed without err

[ubuntu-uk] nvidia 331 update

2014-01-29 Thread SuperEngineer
Hi folks, following an update that also downloaded [& installed without error] updated nvidia drivers [331] I looked in Additional Drivers and they were listed. No option to activate the new was presented but the Additional Drivers shows them with the green mark next to them, as if available/inst

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-settigns application and Over-scan problems

2012-05-05 Thread Bill Cumming
Hi Hope someone here can help me. I'm using 2 monitors currently on my main system It's an Nvidia ION based motherboard. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 The problem is that the Nvidia-Settings app is not saving the settings for the second monitor. I've used the following Nvidia Drivers (all have the s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 17:47, John Stevenson wrote: It sounds like you are running the open source driver for your graphics card and not the nvidia closed source driver. The open source driver does not support 3D, but should work well as a desktop in all other respects. In System > Administration > Har

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Stevenson
On 6 June 2010 17:33, John Matthews wrote: > On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote: > > > If you are still having a problem, then it only confirms your configs were > updated. Have you restarted your desktop, you can do that by login out and > loging back in again. > > If you are still having

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread Tony Pursell
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 17:33 +0100, John Matthews wrote: > On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote: > > > > If you are still having a problem, then it only confirms your > > configs were updated. Have you restarted your desktop, you can do > > that by login out and loging back in again. > > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote: If you are still having a problem, then it only confirms your configs were updated. Have you restarted your desktop, you can do that by login out and loging back in again. If you are still having problems, is the only problem that you cant run the n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Stevenson
On 6 June 2010 13:09, John Matthews wrote: > On 06/06/10 12:11, John Stevenson wrote: > > It could be that the update changed the configuration, if so this is a > > bug. You can check by looking at the time stamps for the file > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if it is the same time as you update.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 12:11, John Stevenson wrote: > It could be that the update changed the configuration, if so this is a > bug. You can check by looking at the time stamps for the file > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if it is the same time as you update. > > In a terminal window, type the following comman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Stevenson
On 6 June 2010 11:06, John Matthews wrote: > My invidia card her been working ok for ages now, but suddenly I get an > update, go to reboot andit now wont work. When I click on the invidia > link in System Administration, it now tells me > > 'You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X drivier. Pl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread Daniel M. Drummond
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 11:06 +0100, John Matthews wrote: > just run 'nvidia-config' as root and restart the > server. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
My invidia card her been working ok for ages now, but suddenly I get an update, go to reboot andit now wont work. When I click on the invidia link in System Administration, it now tells me 'You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X drivier. Please edit your x configuration file (just run 'nvid

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia and lucid

2010-05-23 Thread Bruce Durling
Tim and John, Thanks! I've passed this on to my friend. cheers, Bruce -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia and lucid

2010-05-23 Thread Timothy Rittman
On 22 May 2010 22:35, Bruce Durling > wrote: / Hi, />/ />/ I have a friend running Lucid with nvidia and he is having trouble />/ with the video drivers// / Hello Bruce, Have you tried running nvidia-xconfig from the command line? Are yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia and lucid

2010-05-22 Thread John Stevenson
On 22 May 2010 22:35, Bruce Durling wrote: > Hi, > > I have a friend running Lucid with nvidia and he is having trouble > with the video drivers (black screen after bootup or flickering low > resolution). I'm noticing that there are a number of discussions on > ubuntuforums and the nvidia boards

[ubuntu-uk] nvidia and lucid

2010-05-22 Thread Bruce Durling
Hi, I have a friend running Lucid with nvidia and he is having trouble with the video drivers (black screen after bootup or flickering low resolution). I'm noticing that there are a number of discussions on ubuntuforums and the nvidia boards and some bug reports, but I haven't found anything defin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-21 Thread John Stevenson
On 21 May 2010 15:08, Simon Swaysland wrote: > >> I'll try it when I get home, I do hope it works. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Simon >> > > It worked!! > > Under Alsamixer these was an column marked "s/pdif 1". It was marked MM for > mute, I unmuted it with "m". > > Thanks fr your help. > > > Cheers, > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Swaysland
> > > I'll try it when I get home, I do hope it works. > > Cheers, > > Simon > It worked!! Under Alsamixer these was an column marked "s/pdif 1". It was marked MM for mute, I unmuted it with "m". Thanks fr your help. Cheers, Simon -- QUANDO OMNI FLUNKUS MORITATUS -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Swaysland
Simon, > It looks like I am in the same boat, but I will try what Andrew suggested > tonight. I did enable Nvidia drivers, but the alsamixer unmute sounds > promising... > > I wonder if there is a difference between revo's. I have an R3610, does > everyone who has a working revo have the same mo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-21 Thread Alan Pope
On 21 May 2010 10:00, John Stevenson wrote: > I wonder if there is a difference between revo's.  I have an R3610, does > everyone who has a working revo have the same model? > I have the 3600 which is the single core Atom 230 CPU model. The 3610 has the Atom 330 dual core CPU. I don't believe the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-21 Thread John Stevenson
On 21 May 2010 08:39, Simon Swaysland wrote: > > > On 20 May 2010 14:40, Bill Cumming wrote: > >> Since it's the BIOS, think you have to wait till you get hands on the box >> to check. >> >> >> Hi, > > Unfortunately, the only setting I have in the BIOS is to disable the audio > output. > > In so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-21 Thread Andrew Seyes
Hello, I installed 10.04 on my revo and I too struggled to get any sound via HDMI which refused stubbornly to work despite my best efforts. Finally I gave up and completed the install by activating the nvidia graphics driver. After a reboot I was surprised to find that sound just started working v

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Swaysland
On 20 May 2010 14:40, Bill Cumming wrote: > Since it's the BIOS, think you have to wait till you get hands on the box > to check. > > > Hi, Unfortunately, the only setting I have in the BIOS is to disable the audio output. In sound preferences I've got output set to HDMI out, but still no luck.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-21 Thread javadayaz
I wonder how Google TV will fit into all of this...Maybe you dont need a Revo or dell in there now!! On 20 May 2010 16:13, John Stevenson wrote: > On 20 May 2010 15:34, Alan Pope wrote: > >> On 20 May 2010 15:30, Simon Swaysland wrote: >> > Did it just work, or did you have to play with settin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread John Stevenson
On 20 May 2010 15:34, Alan Pope wrote: > On 20 May 2010 15:30, Simon Swaysland wrote: > > Did it just work, or did you have to play with settings? > > > > I've installed the nvidia binary driver and vdpau library from the > repository and that was pretty much it. I put a couple of tweaks in my >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Bill Cumming
Same here! just installed Nvidia's latest drivers plus the vdpau libraries and XBMC it works perfectly. On 20 May 2010 15:34, Alan Pope wrote: > On 20 May 2010 15:30, Simon Swaysland wrote: > > Did it just work, or did you have to play with settings? > > > > I've installed the nvidia binary dri

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Alan Pope
On 20 May 2010 15:30, Simon Swaysland wrote: > Did it just work, or did you have to play with settings? > I've installed the nvidia binary driver and vdpau library from the repository and that was pretty much it. I put a couple of tweaks in my mplayer config to make it buffer and force it to use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Simon Swaysland
On 20 May 2010 15:21, Alan Pope wrote: > On 20 May 2010 15:04, javadayaz wrote: > > And youve not had any problems displaying it full screen? + whats the > > quality of HD playback obviously depending on what it is 720,1080i,1080p > etc > > ? > > > > Works fine for the 720p content I have. > > C

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Alan Pope
On 20 May 2010 15:04, javadayaz wrote: > And youve not had any problems displaying it full screen? + whats the > quality of HD playback obviously depending on what it is 720,1080i,1080p etc > ? > Works fine for the 720p content I have. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 15:01 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 20 May 2010 14:57, javadayaz wrote: > > Reading peoples comments here has just made me think. Will the revo be > > configurable to a 40" inch screen? > > > > My revo is attached to a 42" screen. > > Cheers, > Al. Show off :p -Matt Daubne

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Bill Cumming
it should work with a 40" screen. it's the resolution size that matters not the physical size. as long as the screen and box can display the same resolution it should be fine. On 20 May 2010 14:57, javadayaz wrote: > Reading peoples comments here has just made me think. Will the revo be > config

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread javadayaz
And youve not had any problems displaying it full screen? + whats the quality of HD playback obviously depending on what it is 720,1080i,1080p etc ? On 20 May 2010 15:01, Alan Pope wrote: > On 20 May 2010 14:57, javadayaz wrote: > > Reading peoples comments here has just made me think. Will the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Alan Pope
On 20 May 2010 14:57, javadayaz wrote: > Reading peoples comments here has just made me think. Will the revo be > configurable to a 40" inch screen? > My revo is attached to a 42" screen. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread javadayaz
Reading peoples comments here has just made me think. Will the revo be configurable to a 40" inch screen? On 20 May 2010 14:49, Alan Pope wrote: > On 20 May 2010 14:40, Bill Cumming wrote: > > Since it's the BIOS, think you have to wait till you get hands on the box > to > > check. > > > > The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Alan Pope
On 20 May 2010 14:40, Bill Cumming wrote: > Since it's the BIOS, think you have to wait till you get hands on the box to > check. > The output is configurable with pulseaudio. Click the speaker icon in the notification area, choose Sound Preferences, click the output tab, click the drop down next

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Bill Cumming
Since it's the BIOS, think you have to wait till you get hands on the box to check. On 20 May 2010 14:31, Simon Swaysland wrote: > > > On 20 May 2010 13:54, Bill Cumming wrote: > >> What settings are in the BIOS for audio? there should be an option (If >> it's anything like my Zotac ION board)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread John Stevenson
On 20 May 2010 13:54, Bill Cumming wrote: > What settings are in the BIOS for audio? there should be an option (If it's > anything like my Zotac ION board) for switching onboard audio between > "internal codec, external codec, internal+external codec". To get HDMI Audio > select "internal codec"

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Simon Swaysland
On 20 May 2010 13:54, Bill Cumming wrote: > What settings are in the BIOS for audio? there should be an option (If it's > anything like my Zotac ION board) for switching onboard audio between > "internal codec, external codec, internal+external codec". To get HDMI Audio > select "internal codec"

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Alan Pope
On 20 May 2010 13:51, javadayaz wrote: > Who sells the dell zino HD? and which one is better specs wise...the revo or > the dell? > Dell? http://www.google.com/search?dell+zino+hd http://euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/Desktops/inspiron-zino-hd/pd.aspx?refid=inspiron-zino-hd&cs=ukdhs1&s=dhs The revo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Bill Cumming
What settings are in the BIOS for audio? there should be an option (If it's anything like my Zotac ION board) for switching onboard audio between "internal codec, external codec, internal+external codec". To get HDMI Audio select "internal codec" that uses the HDMI for sound output. On 20 May 201

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread javadayaz
Who sells the dell zino HD? and which one is better specs wise...the revo or the dell? On 20 May 2010 13:46, Simon Swaysland wrote: > Thanks everyone for your help and advice, much appreciated. > >> >> Just out of interest, does anyone have any experience of running a media >> centre on a Dell Z

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Simon Swaysland
Thanks everyone for your help and advice, much appreciated. > > Just out of interest, does anyone have any experience of running a media > centre on a Dell Zino HD? They look quite cool, plus they have a DVD player > built in. > > Thanks, > > Simon > Afternoon, My Revo is up and running, Lovely

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-27 Thread Simon Wears
Well, as long as you fixed your problem! That's what counts ;) 2010/1/27 keith > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for the advice, but I', afraid it has come a little late for me. > > Continuing my efforts to fix the problem and having to reboot several > times, eventually I booted up to no screen at all. R

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-27 Thread keith
Hi Simon, Thanks for the advice, but I', afraid it has come a little late for me. Continuing my efforts to fix the problem and having to reboot several times, eventually I booted up to no screen at all. Rescue mode showed that the config file was empty and I couldn't access the backup file. S

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-27 Thread Simon Wears
I had a very similar problem - fixed it the other day actually! See - http://www.munkyjunky.com/2010/01/ubuntu-9-10-nvidia-resolution-fix/ Basically, what I did was as follows: 1. Backup your xorg.conf file, using the following command – *sudo* *cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.back

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-26 Thread keith
Darren, Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, however, it caused the resolution to revert to 800x600 permanently whereas the boot sequence had formerly been 1920x1080 initially. I also struggled to get the Nvidia config screen back! Keith. --- Keith Bowerman, Prestwood, south Staffs, England.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-26 Thread Darren.Mansell
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 13:52 +, keith wrote: > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor"Monitor0" > DefaultDepth24 > Option "TwinView" "0" > Option "metamodes" "1920x1080 +0+0; nvidia-auto-select +0 > +0"

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-26 Thread keith
From: Robert McWilliam To: UK Ubuntu Talk Sent: Tuesday, 26 January, 2010 10:19:14 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings Can you post your xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Hopefully that'll give enough clues that someone can offer some help. Thanks for the offer of help R

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-26 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 07:38:57PM +, keith wrote: > I have tried all sorts, including the suggestions in the parallel > thread. I have been able to save an xorg.config file with the > correct settings and yet Ubuntu still boots up in 800x600 > resolution. Strangley enough, however, as it is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-25 Thread keith
I have tried all sorts, including the suggestions in the parallel thread. I have been able to save an xorg.config file with the correct settings and yet Ubuntu still boots up in 800x600 resolution. Strangley enough, however, as it is booting with the chocolate screen the resolution is correct.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-25 Thread Guy Thouret
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 15:39 +, keith wrote: > > > Over the weekend, however, I had the bright idea of using a TP-Link wireless > dongle. This works a treat and now I have 9.10 up and running /almost/ > perfectly. > > There is one fly in the ointment, though, and that is the display. Ubun

[ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA X Server Settings

2010-01-25 Thread keith
A couple of months ago I treated myself to an All-in-One PC with a large touchscreen monitor. I couldn't use Ubuntu on it because it has a Realtek wireless card which Ubuntu doesn't recognise and, as far as I can tell, nobody has been able to get around this. Also, as the PC's OS is Windows 7,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver resolution support

2009-10-01 Thread Rob Beard
Robert Flatters wrote: > Hi, this seems to be an old and very waring issue that im suffering > from. I'm running Nvidia 4400 SE. In the earlier version of Ubuntu > 8.04 the setting worked fine, but when the later version came out > every thing changed and the screen res was to put it mildlyc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver resolution support

2009-10-01 Thread Robert Flatters
Hi, this seems to be an old and very waring issue that im suffering from. I'm running Nvidia 4400 SE. In the earlier version of Ubuntu 8.04 the setting worked fine, but when the later version came out every thing changed and the screen res was to put it mildlycrap. there were plenty of work aro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver resolution support

2009-09-19 Thread Roger Lancefield
2009/9/19 Alan Lord (News) : > On 18/09/09 14:38, Gordon Allott wrote: >> Roger Lancefield wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm running a dual-head Nvidia 7600 GS on Jaunty with the proprietary Nvidia >>> driver. >>> >>> Does anyone know if the driver supports 2048x1152? In particular (probably >>> not a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver resolution support

2009-09-19 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 18/09/09 14:38, Gordon Allott wrote: > Roger Lancefield wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running a dual-head Nvidia 7600 GS on Jaunty with the proprietary Nvidia >> driver. >> >> Does anyone know if the driver supports 2048x1152? In particular (probably >> not a common combination) does anyone happen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver resolution support

2009-09-18 Thread Gordon Allott
Roger Lancefield wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running a dual-head Nvidia 7600 GS on Jaunty with the proprietary Nvidia > driver. > > Does anyone know if the driver supports 2048x1152? In particular (probably > not a common combination) does anyone happen to know if it will support this > resolution t

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver resolution support

2009-09-17 Thread Roger Lancefield
Hi all, I'm running a dual-head Nvidia 7600 GS on Jaunty with the proprietary Nvidia driver. Does anyone know if the driver supports 2048x1152? In particular (probably not a common combination) does anyone happen to know if it will support this resolution together with an existing 1920x1200 panel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty

2009-07-13 Thread Liam Proven
2009/7/13 David Jones : > I've not bothered with installing the driver manually, I was just > pointing out that jockey-gtk doesn't pick up that an nvidia legacy > adapter is present. > > At some point when I need it, I'll get round to installing. > >  From memory, I had to use the 7186 driver with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty

2009-07-13 Thread David Jones
I've not bothered with installing the driver manually, I was just pointing out that jockey-gtk doesn't pick up that an nvidia legacy adapter is present. At some point when I need it, I'll get round to installing. From memory, I had to use the 7186 driver with 8.10 to get desktop effects worki

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty

2009-07-13 Thread Liam Proven
2009/7/13 David Jones : > I'm not sure whether the drivers in Jaunty will work with a TNT2 card, Well, I looked up which ones would work first. > thats slightly older than the Geforce2 cards I've got in my laptop and > desktop and for both of them I can't get 3D working, hardware drivers > tool d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty

2009-07-13 Thread David Jones
I'm not sure whether the drivers in Jaunty will work with a TNT2 card, thats slightly older than the Geforce2 cards I've got in my laptop and desktop and for both of them I can't get 3D working, hardware drivers tool doesn't detect that an nvidia card is installed so won't automatically check f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty

2009-07-12 Thread Daniel Drummond
Liam Proven wrote: > I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally, > I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and > an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card. > > Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live > CD, but the resultant syste

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty

2009-07-12 Thread Liam Proven
I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally, I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card. Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live CD, but the resultant system never got past GRUB. Jaunty

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-11 Thread Farran Lee
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 09:38 +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:40:00AM +0100, Farran Lee wrote: > > > > quick update: drs305 helped me on the forums with the kernel bit... > > don't know what the issue was, but removing the .postinst file > > from /var/boot/info and reins

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-10 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:40:00AM +0100, Farran Lee wrote: > > quick update: drs305 helped me on the forums with the kernel bit... > don't know what the issue was, but removing the .postinst file > from /var/boot/info and reinstalling linux-image did the trick :D > I thought perhaps that would me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-10 Thread Farran Lee
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 07:55 +0100, Michael G Fletcher wrote: > > quick update: drs305 helped me on the forums with the kernel bit... don't > > know what the issue was, but removing the .postinst file from /var/boot/info > > and reinstalling linux-image did the trick :D > > I thought perhaps that w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Michael G Fletcher
> quick update: drs305 helped me on the forums with the kernel bit... don't > know what the issue was, but removing the .postinst file from /var/boot/info > and reinstalling linux-image did the trick :D > I thought perhaps that would mean that the graphics driver would install > properly. > And...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Farran Lee
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 01:08 +0100, Farran Lee wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 23:22 +0100, Michael G Fletcher wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Farran Lee > > wrote: > > > the graphics bit has got stupid now... different packages that depend on > > > each other, or aren't listed as c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Farran Lee
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 23:22 +0100, Michael G Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Farran Lee wrote: > > the graphics bit has got stupid now... different packages that depend on > > each other, or aren't listed as conflicting, are trying to remove each > > other. I have nvidia-180-ker

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Michael G Fletcher
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Farran Lee wrote: > the graphics bit has got stupid now... different packages that depend on > each other, or aren't listed as conflicting, are trying to remove each > other. I have nvidia-180-kernel-source, nvidia-settings, nvidia-xconfig, > nvidia-180-modaliases a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Farran Lee wrote: > the graphics bit has got stupid now... different packages that depend on > each other, or aren't listed as conflicting, are trying to remove each > other. I have nvidia-180-kernel-source, nvidia-settings, nvidia-xconfig, > nvidia-18

[ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Farran Lee
the graphics bit has got stupid now... different packages that depend on each other, or aren't listed as conflicting, are trying to remove each other. I have nvidia-180-kernel-source, nvidia-settings, nvidia-xconfig, nvidia-180-modaliases and xserver-xorg-video-nv installed. But I think I need nvid

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver problems

2009-02-02 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 19:34 +, Neil Greenwood wrote: > 2009/1/30 Dianne Reuby : > > > > OK, ignore me - I've reinstalled .09. rebooted and it's OK. Apart from > > my username/logoff button being missing. But who'd want to log off > > anyway? > > > > :-) > > Seriously though, if you want it ba

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver problems

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/1/30 Dianne Reuby : > > OK, ignore me - I've reinstalled .09. rebooted and it's OK. Apart from > my username/logoff button being missing. But who'd want to log off > anyway? > :-) Seriously though, if you want it back and it's still missing after a reboot, you can probably do it by right-cli

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver problems

2009-01-30 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:52 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: > I've got an Nvidia GeForce4 MMX440, which worked OK until 8.10, when > special effects stopped. I tried the new driver but had problems, so > I've managed without special effects. I was using 96.45.07 - I saw > that .09 was supposed to be OK,

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver problems

2009-01-30 Thread Dianne Reuby
I've got an Nvidia GeForce4 MMX440, which worked OK until 8.10, when special effects stopped. I tried the new driver but had problems, so I've managed without special effects. I was using 96.45.07 - I saw that .09 was supposed to be OK, and it's in the "normal" repositories (ie not beta, or develop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA driver problem

2007-10-20 Thread Chris Rowson
> Chris > > Personally, as it seems to be more a config problem than a driver one, I'd > put it onto LaunchPad in any case. If for no other reason than to show the > hack you did to get round it. > Thanks for the advice, I filed the bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA driver problem

2007-10-19 Thread Ian Pascoe
Sent: 19 October 2007 21:49 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA driver problem Hi folks, In every version of Ubuntu that I've used, I've come across a slightly irritating problem with the restricted nvidia drivers. When I update using the restricted manager the nvidia

[ubuntu-uk] NVIDIA driver problem

2007-10-19 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi folks, In every version of Ubuntu that I've used, I've come across a slightly irritating problem with the restricted nvidia drivers. When I update using the restricted manager the nvidia driver that it installs defaults to the external monitor rather than the laptop's main screen. This means t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia binary drivers

2007-04-02 Thread Chris Rowson
Ooops BTW - I'm presuming you're using Edgy here ;-) Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia binary drivers

2007-04-02 Thread Chris Rowson
> I have an nVidia GeForce 4 MX integrated card. Do I need nvidia-glx or > nvidia-glx-legacy for hardware emulation? Hi Michael, l believe that Ubuntu is using the 1.0.8776 nvidia-glx driver. According to the readme included with this driver your card should be supported by it. The latest nvidia d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia binary drivers

2007-04-02 Thread Tony Arnold
Michael, Michael Holmes wrote: > I am just asking a simple question. > > I have an nVidia GeForce 4 MX integrated card. Do I need nvidia-glx or > nvidia-glx-legacy for hardware emulation? I'm no expert on this, but the command 'aptitude show nvidia-glx-legacy' produces this in its description of

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia binary drivers

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Holmes
I am just asking a simple question. I have an nVidia GeForce 4 MX integrated card. Do I need nvidia-glx or nvidia-glx-legacy for hardware emulation? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVidia

2007-03-14 Thread TheVeech
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 00:23 +, Alan Pope wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:31 +, martyn woollett wrote: > > As a Newbie to the world of Ubuntu I'm a little confused about graphic > > cards. I have a nvidia geforce 7600gs on my system, but the open gl > > graphics seem jerky. this is on the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVidia

2007-03-13 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:31 +, martyn woollett wrote: > As a Newbie to the world of Ubuntu I'm a little confused about graphic > cards. I have a nvidia geforce 7600gs on my system, but the open gl > graphics seem jerky. this is on the various screen savers and the tux > pinball game for example

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NVidia

2007-03-13 Thread ajb35
- Original Message - From: martyn woollett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:34 pm Subject: [ubuntu-uk] NVidia To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > As a Newbie to the world of Ubuntu I'm a little confused about graphic > cards. I have a nvidia geforce 76

[ubuntu-uk] NVidia

2007-03-13 Thread martyn woollett
As a Newbie to the world of Ubuntu I'm a little confused about graphic cards. I have a nvidia geforce 7600gs on my system, but the open gl graphics seem jerky. this is on the various screen savers and the tux pinball game for example. Looking at the add remove programs there appear to be 2 nvidia d