NVIDIA drivers on ubuntu?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Rick<rwbowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just installed ubuntu jaunty jackalope on my PC and can't get the
> NVIDIA drivers to load.
>
> I installed server, then added gnome-desktop. If I go into "add drivers"
> NVIDIA shows up. I click on install, and I get a text box showing the
> drivers were installed, but a reboot fails to load the GUI.
>
> I did some research and downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.14-pkg2.run
> and ran it.
>
> I accept the license, then get an error: No precompiled kernel interface was
> found to match your kernel; would you like to [get it from
> ftp://download.nvidia.com]?
>
> I reply Yes, and get "No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on
> the NVIDIA FTP site; this means that the installer will need to compile a
> kernel interface for your kernel"
>
> So I click OK and get yet another error. "Unable to find the kernel source
> tree for the currently running kernel."...
>
> Then it talks abut getting the kernel for RedHat RPMs.
>
> I have never build a kernel or customized linux. I'm totally lost.

Then Ubuntu is the wrong distro for you.  Ubuntu is fine as long as
you play by its rules.  Clearly your needs are not aligned with what
Ubuntu wants you to do.

>
> I tried several other things I found doing google searches, including "sudo
> apt-get install nvidia-graphics-drivers-180" and get E: Couldn't find
> package nvidia-graphics-drivers-180.
>
> Can someone help a neophite?
>
> If I can't get this driver loaded, can I use my video in a resolution better
> than 1024x768?

Most likely not

http://tuxicity.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/howto-install-nvidia-manually-in-ubuntu-and-debian/
http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2008/08/howto-install-manually-nvidia-drivers.html


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