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Ubuntu 8.04: Nvidia GeForce 8200

Asked by John Doe

When activating the Nvidia Restricted Driver through the Restricted Driver's manager, it causes Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to become buggy. After rebooting, the screen starts to display artifacts and makes the system unusable, you can't see anything. Because of this (and i'm new to Ubuntu), i've had to reformat to fix the problem.

I've only encountered this with the 8200 so far.

Is there a way to fix this? If there's a complicated way to fix this, does anyone have any idea on how to go about making this more simple to fix?

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said : 		#1

hi
If you use envyNG to install the driver it should fix the problem
You can install it from System- Administration-Synaptic Package Manager
in the search field type in envyng
install it from there, once installed you will find it in Applications-System Tools.
click on the icon and select Nvidia ans install from there it will do it all for you. (use auto detect)
Hope this helps
Regards Neil

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John Doe (stevenw9-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Well, fortunately I figured out a few things. The driver apparently doesn't work with 8.04's kernal, but works with 8.10's. I just upgraded to the beta. Since it's only 5 days away now... yeah. lol. Thanks though!

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Michael Martin-Smucker (mmartinsmucker) said : 		#3

I had this problem with my parents' computer too. The best way I found to fix it was to boot into recovery mode and tell it to reconfigure X. It's true that Intrepid seems to work much better, but for an LTS, Hardy shouldn't offer drivers that cause X not to load. That's unacceptable. I was searching for a bug report and couldn't find one. Does anyone know if one exists?