Ok… So just got my new 23′ acer monitor and I’m just starting to play around with….
Rather than reading the manual…. I just started doing stuff.
This
gave me the idea to try that.
I’m note sure I should have done that which is why I’m trying to keeptrack of what I did.
jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ sudo nvidia-settings
jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ sudo nvidia-xconfigUsing X configuration file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”.
WARNING: The CorePointer device was not specified explicitly in the layout;
using the first mouse device.WARNING: The CoreKeyboard device was not specified explicitly in the layout;
using the first keyboard device.Backed up file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’ as ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup’
New X configuration file written to ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’jonas@Ubuntu4:~$
Ok… to see what kind of video card
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Video
jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
jonas@Ubuntu4:~$
Ok… Googling a little more we have….
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper Hmmm…. Seems a bit outdated.
I went here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and plugged in the stuff closed to what I was looking for….
So… I downloaded the appropriate driver….
And
I tried this front the command
jonas@Ubuntu4:~/Desktop$ sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run
[sudo] password for jonas:
Verifying archive integrity… OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 96.43.13……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
jonas@Ubuntu4:~/Desktop$
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA
DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
Which took me to this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=48482
Ok… Now… Lets summarizing…. see….
CTRL-ALT-F1 Log in at the prompt.
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run (for me anyway.)
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
I guess… This will take me down to the command prompt… Well… Lets see what happens… (time to publish..)
When I rebooted I got put into a safemode which allowed me to manually configure to a LCD 1920X1280 monitor and a Nnvidia Geforce 4 card….
So… When I rebooted things seem to get better.
When I tried to fire up supertuxkart from the command line I got this message.
freeglut (supertuxkart): OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display ‘:0.0’
Googling I found… http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/opengl-glx-extension-not-supported-by-display-0.0-321212/
Supposed, I need to remove, glut, freeglut and mesa for this to work…. Well…
Well I just blew away free-glut and free-glut-dev….
I ‘m not sure I want to do this with mesa…. to much stuff is going to go away…
Let see if supertuxkart works now…
Ok… I tried to do the edits as per http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.13/README/chapter-03-section-02.html
Lets.. see what happens…