Well, during my upgrade to Feisty I installed the NVidia drivers' packages and they were updated. And since for some reason Ubuntu's NVidia drivers still don't work, I lost my X! So, once again, it's back to w3m to download and install the NVidia drivers from NVidia's website...
This is easy to solve, but I would rather that it didn't happen again. So I removed the Ubuntu packages from my installation.
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-common
After doing this you must reinstall the NVidia drivers, because removing these packages also deletes a bunch of required files. As a bonus, you win about 100Mb of free space. :-)
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Hello.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy... 1st everything was ok..As soon as I installed updates the problem began. Resolution was poor without Nvidia detected. Again I need to ok from restricted device manager. Graphics improoved but resolution is no more than 800*600
I'm also using Hardy right now, but I've downloaded the NVidia drivers from the NVidia website. I keep them in a folder so that every time there is an update (like the kernel update two days ago) I can easily reinstall them.
Would you pls tell me the links of those files..
Or I simply uninstall and reinstall the previous package?
You can get your files from here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Next, you must login in a text console (press [ctrl]-[alt]-F1) and kill X windows (sudo kill-9 gdm).
Finally, run the installer. If it says something about libc not being there, just get it (sudo apt-get install libc6-devel).
Disclaimer: I'm writing these commands by heart, so you may need to do some corrections...
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