This may not be needed in Hardy Heron and newer, but check anyway, esp. If you revert to use Jockey, reinstalling DKMS is needed to get all relevant drivers to be available by Jockey. VMware) failing to work after a reboot/kernel update.
certain wireless cards) or other software (e.g. Doing so will cause all restricted drivers to be uninstalled which may result in other hardware (e.g. Warning: Be wary of uninstalling nvidia-kernel-common or packages starting with the name linux-restricted-modules. Additionally you may need to manually remove the hidden /lib/linux-restricted-modules/.nvidia_new_installed file. See this launchpad bug about lrm-manager failing to disable the nvidia_new module when nv is specified alone. Note: In Ubuntu 7.04 the nvidia_new is explicitly required in addition to nv on the DISABLED_MODULES line. Replace it with: DISABLED_MODULES="nv nvidia_new" Open or create the /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common file with an editor, in Ubuntu use gksudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-commonĪnd in Kubuntu use kdesu kate /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common Using Synaptic or apt-get, uninstall nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-legacy, nvidia-glx-new and nvidia-settings if they are installed. The following command will then probably need adjustment also. In such case you could try following sudo apt-get install linux-source The above command might print an error similar to the following: E: Couldn't find package linux-source-2.6.20-16-386 Sudo ln -s linux-source-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux Sudo apt-get install linux-source-`uname -r` If later steps fail, consider this a last resort. Most people will not need it, and it takes a fair amount of bandwidth and diskspace.
The purpose of this page is to detail the necessary work to install the official NVIDIA Linux driver from Note that this will not fix resolution problems, for that you need to see the FixVideoResolutionHowto. newer drivers provide a new feature not yet available in the Ubuntu packages.bugs are present in provided packages that are fixed in later drivers not yet distributed by Ubuntu.your card is too new, and is not supported by the Ubuntu provided binary packages.Here are some reasons to install the NVIDIA restricted drivers manually:
Sometimes using the drivers in the Ubuntu repositories is not the best option.
Other places for binary driver manual installation support can be found on the Community Support page. If the drivers were downloaded from the NVIDIA web site then the NVIDIA Linux web forum is an appropriate place to report issues. Any problems that occur after using the following instructions should not be reported to the launchpad bug area. This is not the recommended way to install the NVIDIA drivers - please see BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia for the supported method.