<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi Shanon<br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>What is the specific card in question?<br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers<br></div><div>//chris<br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Shanon Loughton" <autobot@iinet.net.au><br><b>To: </b>plug@plug.org.au<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 13 June, 2013 3:16:49 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[plug] Ubuntu 13.04 Nvidia graphics drivers<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi all<br><div><br></div></div>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).<br>
<br></div>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.<br><div><br></div></div>Askubuntu says <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/285627/unity-does-not-start-in-ubuntu-13-04" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/285627/unity-does-not-start-in-ubuntu-13-04</a><br>
but running<br><div><br></div>unity --reset-icons &disown<br><div><br></div>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...<br><div><br></div>
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<div>cheers for any help<br>Shanon<br></div></div>
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