[plug] Ubuntu 13.04 Nvidia graphics drivers

[Shanon Loughton]

Richard - nvidia-current package did that the first time but I checked
again and could not see it blacklisted the second time I installed the
package. Might be worth trying again- just 'blacklist nouveau' in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf?

Chris - Its a Gigabyte Nvidia 7600 GT 256MB. Was using 304 and 310 nvidia
driver apt packagae ok on 12.04

So I clean wiped and reinstalled without nvidia card. A redownload iso, new
USB device and/or radeon onboard video fixed the issue. Pluggin in Nvidia
post install gave similar symptoms - unity works but really slow,
installing nvidia-current brings wallpaper and no menus.

Its working on internal video at the moment pretty well after a new
installation..

Shanon



Just a question - have you blacklisted the nouveau (sp) driver?

Sometimes having both around causes all sorts of interesting problems.
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On 13 June 2013 16:01, Chris Hoy Poy <chris at hoypoy.id.au <javascript:_e({},
'cvml', 'chris at hoypoy.id.au');>> wrote:

> Hi Shanon
>
> I've had some issues with some variants of the lower end nvidia cards
> being rather crap and needing specific versions of the nvidia drivers
> installed to work right.
>
> What is the specific card in question?
>
> cheers
> //chris
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> *Sent: *Thursday, 13 June, 2013 3:16:49 PM
> *Subject: *[plug] Ubuntu 13.04 Nvidia graphics drivers
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>
> Hi all
>
> I cant for the life of me get nvidia going after an installation (over
> 12.10) of 13.04 (not an upgrade, but not a clean format and install either
> - the clean format and install is last option).
>
> Ive apt-got nvidia-current and then purged and either way I log into to a
> desktop wallpaper and thats it - no menus or top bar or anything.
>
> Askubuntu says
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/285627/unity-does-not-start-in-ubuntu-13-04
> but running
>
> unity --reset-icons &disown
>
> gives me a whole bunch of OpenGL errors / screen /device not found.  I
> dont think the nvidia showed up on cat /proc/bus/devices either, which isnt
> good...
>
>  cheers for any help
> Shanon
>
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