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Help a new Linux/Gimp user install Nvidia Drivers
03FatBoy
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So I wanted to dabble with Linux and Gimp. Got my self a build of Ubuntu. Installed it on a second drive. It works! Pretty cool I must say.
However I am having a great deal of difficulty installing my Nvidia GeForce FX drivers that I downloaded from their site. I downloaded the "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9746-pkg2.run" package and it now sits on the desktop. I can't do anything with it. If I try to run it, it gives me a command and says no go.
If I right click it and say open in termial, it starts to run, but then halts and tells me that it must be run as root. How can I run it as root?
By the way, I've read and read the forums, but I still can't figure this command line stuff out. If I can't figure it out soon, then i'm formatting the disk back to windows.
Thanks.
However I am having a great deal of difficulty installing my Nvidia GeForce FX drivers that I downloaded from their site. I downloaded the "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9746-pkg2.run" package and it now sits on the desktop. I can't do anything with it. If I try to run it, it gives me a command and says no go.
If I right click it and say open in termial, it starts to run, but then halts and tells me that it must be run as root. How can I run it as root?
By the way, I've read and read the forums, but I still can't figure this command line stuff out. If I can't figure it out soon, then i'm formatting the disk back to windows.
Thanks.
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This problem might be beyond most of our member's expertise. I would suggest posting your question in a Linux specific forum. That's where the geeks with penguin hats hang out.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
man, don't give up. Root's easy: that's your admin accout. Linux geek speek. Once you get past loading a few drivers that make it look and speek to you...linux rules.
another option is the su command...
Good luck!
Sorry to dispirit you, but I found installing NVidia's drivers onto a Linux box to be one of the most painful things I've had to do to a computer during software maintence, involving gratuateously recompiling the kernel a couple of times and re-writing the config files...
I have a twin display on a QuadroFX 500 that Debian/Ubuntu garbled, unless they had the drivers installed.
If the situation hasn't improved, I would strongly consider running without custom drivers if you can, until you're a lot more familiar with the workings of the operating system. NVidia's drivers don't seem to have a great reputation within the Linux community (but then the same could be said of many things
Linux is not exactly user friendly if you stray outside the Ubuntu GUI bubble. If you're not comfortable with command lines, then I'd strongly suggest running a more user friendly OS as your primary (MacOS or Windows), and use an emulator to get familiar with Linux.
I wish I had a better answer for you, and if I did, I might be inclined to spend more time using Linux.
I hope they've fixed this mess and that you find a sensible way of doing this.
Luke
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Ubuntu's package manager makes fairly easy work of installing custom drivers/kernels. I'll grant that it's not the official nVidia driver, although looking at their site revealed that they don't even provide Linux drivers for any of the Geforce series (save for the newest 8800 series) for x86 architecture.
If you fire up Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager (under System | Administration) and do a search for "nvidia", you'll see all the necessary packages to get an XOrg nVidia-accelerated server in place. As I've only had to deal with ATI-based systems where I've cared about video acceleration, I'd only have to venture a guess that the packages you need to install are "nvidia-glx", "nvidia-kernel-common", and possibly "nvidia-xconfig" and "nvclock".
Note that by default Ubuntu hides all packages not certified to work properly, but there are MANY more packages available. In the Synaptic Package Manager, go to Settings | Repositories. Check all the Binary channels for your version of Ubuntu, and for each of them click Edit and ensure Universe and Multiverse are checked. http://packages.ubuntu.com has a full list of all available packages through apt-get/aptitude/Synaptic, as well as descriptions and dependencies. Bookmark it
Ubuntu boo-hoos logging in as root or obtaining sustained root priviligaes in all shapes and forms (it's disabled out of the box and I agree with them). They "suggest" (more like force
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Grab VMWare Player and a Ubuntu Appliance. http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/484