Installation of ATI and nVidia Graphics drivers On Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)


nVidia Driver

If you have problems with nVidia drivers after upgrading, check this guide for solutions to common problems with nVidia.
Please make a backup of xorg.conf before following this method.

Install the nvidia-settings package:

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

Download nVidia driver http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and place it at your home directory. After downloading, close all open windows and press F1. Log in and enter password and then just connect to the internet. Press F2, kill gdm or kdm season by entering sudo killall , example:

$ sudo killall gdm

Install the nvidia driver. Make sure you are in the nvidia driver directory. If you downloaded it and placed it on the Desktop, make sure to change directories first.


$ cd Desktop

To install it, enter /NVIDIA-Linux-x**-***.**-pkg1.run. For example, if you downloaded Nvidia version 173.80:



$ sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.80-pkg1.run

choose yes to any verbose response. After you are finished installing the driver, reboot your computer.



$ sudo reboot
 
ATI Driver

If you have problems with ATI drivers after upgrading, check this link for solutions to common problems with ATI.

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