<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Blake Munro <<a href="mailto:blake.munro@gmail.com">blake.munro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>Final step, and I thought I was seeing some light at the end of the tunnel with this one, was to download the binary package from <a href="http://nvidia.com" target="_blank">nvidia.com</a> and manually install the driver, get it to compile a module etc and all would be sweet. Not so. The Nvidia package says that my card is supported, others on various forums I have googled have had some success with this method, but I still keep running in to dead ends, like a lot of other people it seems. The module compiles and installs, but same as step 1, when I reboot, I get a blank screen and Gnome does not start.<br>
<br>This is all making me quite frustrated at the moment, i've spent about the last 48 hours at home like a hermit with about 40 firefox tabs open at any one time, reading forums from all around the globe trying to get this damn graphics card to work.<br>
<br>So my question to fellow pluggers - does anyone have one of these cards, and did you get it to work with the correct driver? If so, could you please give me some advice?<br><br>I have since also found out that my mainboard only has fake raid, and have not even attempted using dmraid or any of those tools to set that up, i'm just taking it one step at a time.<br>
<br>It appears to have bitten me in the ass by going out and buying brand new hardware. I tried to stick with good, popular brands but it appears that Ubuntu is still a little bit behind in terms of bleeding edge hardware.<br>
<br>Any help would be very appreciated.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></div></blockquote></div><br>Hi Blake,<br><br>I recently did the same thing - went out, bought new stuff, then installed ubuntu on it and ran into a few headaches ;)<br>
<br>I have the same graphics card (different manufacturer though...) - initially, the only way for me to get it to run was to use a beta driver from Nvidia (the current drivers work for me now though...). Still, it might be worth trying the beta drivers ou (64 bit)t:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_177.13.html">http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_177.13.html</a><br><br>I also recall having to increase the power for that pcie slot in bios (first time i've ever had to do anything like that)... until i did that, i kept booting into blank screens randomly :p However, your motherboard might be clever enough to sort this out on its own - mine was a bit cheaper ;p<br>
<br>Hope that helps in some way or other ;)<br><br>Ryan<br><br><br></div>