Guys, i've problem.

I'm trying to install drivers for GTX260 from ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates.

I addes repo, i updated apt-get, i reinstalled it and i see in terminal that it's reinstalling nvidia 295 drivers, but whenever i got a gui and check nvidia-settings i still have 280.13.


What am i doing wrong? How to install new drivers?! I use ubuntu for more than 2-3 months, i've been using slackware for more than a year and i have never had problem like this. I changed drivers - there were changed, but in Ubuntu something is wrong.


Please, can you help me? Im not so much experienced but i've been not using it since yesterday! It's so much frustrating that i can't install some easy thing like new drivers that it's drives me mad, and sad...

Maybe i have to blacklist something before installing it? I've been trying install it whole day, and yesterday it completly broke my Ubuntu, luckily i had backup.

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Can somebody help me? Is it so much?

Can somebody help me?

I tried to install it from x-swat ppa but still there is something wrong.

After installation of 302 drivers from x-swat ppa i have problems like:

-ofter computer stops at login screen, i enter password, picture flips and still goes back to login screen
-if i succesfully enter desktop mode with gui than running smplayer causes to "log off" and again i see login screen
-if i succesfully enter desktop mode with gui often there is no unity/ubuntu panels/taskbars only wallpaper with some shortcuts
-often lightdm (lightdm menager?) doesen't work

You're more experienced so please help me. I don't know why i can't install new drivers or why it is so hard like pain in...

What I would do is to do a clean install (and not a dist-upgrade) of Ubuntu 12.04. Then install the nvidia-current driver using apt-get or synaptic from the default Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.
Then reboot and run sudo nvidia-xconfig to enable the driver
This would be much easier than trying to cope with a PPA repository on Ubuntu 11.10, since those PPA repos are unsupported by Ubuntu and vary greatly in their quality and reliability.

Note that the nvidia-current driver in Ubuntu 12.04 is the 295 driver that you want:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/nvidia-current

I always do clean installs of newer versions of Ubuntu instead of dist-upgrades. It is the best way to start with a clean slate and avoid problems.
If you have a separate /home partition then clean installs are quick and easy.

What are you hoping to achive with updating your drivers from 280.13 to 295.XX/302.XX?

The 295.XX drivers (and possibly 302.XX as well) have performance regressions anyway, you'd be better off with 280.XX IMO.

I only want them to work...I want to install it. check them, know that i know how to install and remove them but apparently there is something wrong with them.

Apparenly no i think that i don't know how to install nVidia drivers for it...i would like to know how to install different drivers version because from ppa it is installed newest (nvidia-current) so what to do when i would like to install for an example 270 drivers when i have 280 from Ubuntu?

I would like to know - on slackware i downloaded binary driver, run ./Nvidia-xxx and it worked. On windows only clicks and it worked. Here? Not at all.

Thank You but i don't want to switch to 12.04 because there are still present bugs in this, also not everything that i use if present for 12.04. The funny thing regarding that ppa is that when i install it trough terminal i see that it is being installet for 11.10 (oneiric)...but after installation it just doesen't work like it should be:

-lightdm doesen't work
-if lightdm works than there is no gui, only wallpaper
-playing movies cause exit to login screen
-often there is only login screen, after logging in picture flips and goes back to login screen
-if i succesfully enter gui after log on than often there is no panel/bars of ubuntu, only wallpaper with shortcuts

strange because it install drivers for oneiric!

In desperation i tried to install new BINARY driver from nVidia site. Works like a charm despite that now, i don't know why, i have bug in jockey because it shows that i do not use driver:

here is the output:

when in fact i have installed 295 drivers because nvidia settings shows it, also lshw -C display says the same and:

shows:
I know that there is bug in jockey but it worked before installing and reinstalling drivers from ppa. Don't know why it happened and don't know how to fix it - i now that this bug is present in 11.04, but apparently in 11.10 when doing something with drivers it cames up.

I have to rewrite what i wrote earlier. I though that everything worked. As a matter of fact as soon as i touched mplayer (not even played file, just run smplayer by clicking on it) i have log off from destkop to login prompt (purple wallpaper with user and login).

I give up. I don;t understand the way of installing nvidia driver from website or ppa. It looks like vdpau doesen't work but commands above showed that 3d works!

I could play movies/files trough terminal smplayer but it doesen't work when i clicked on smplayer. Also i tried to run Unity 2d but as soon as i clicked for anything i saw logging off.

I use nvidia-current from command:

The funniest thing is that with this everything works - this is 280.13 drivers, but when i installed it from nvidia settings as a binary driver there were problems mentioned above.

How did you add that PPA for installing the nvidia driver? Here is a tutorial on adding that PPA on Ubuntu and installing the nvidia driver:
http://www.techlw.com/2012/03/instal...untu-1204.html
Is that exactly how you added that PPA and installed the nvidia driver?

If you want to use the driver from nvidia.com, try this tutorial from Ubuntu Geek:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-inst...ucid-lynx.html

Be sure to only have one nvidia driver installed at at a time. Remove the driver from the Ubuntu repos before installing a nvidia driver from a PPA or from nvidia.com.
If the nvidia-current driver for 11.10 works ok for you then I would just stick with that. I always use the nvidia driver that is present in the Ubuntu repos and I never have problems.

Yes.

Did as they mentioned earlier.

Tell me, if i have packages in synaptic with different nvidia drivers (96, 173, current > 280.13) but they are not installed (green mark is not present near them) it is neccesary to remove them from synaptic? You mean that?

If yes, how i should remove it from repos? You mean remove it from synaptic? (is there a metod for this but not in gui mode but in terminal? I thought that if i purged ppa, purged nvidia by sudo apt-get --remove purge nvidia* or nvidia-* than everything should be removed with nvidia name).

I want to have new drivers only to know that i know what i'm doing, that i know how to install it for my own sake It drives me mad. I don't want them only for having newer number - i wan't to learn process of installing/removing them and working with them as they should.

No, you do not remove the extra drivers from Synaptic. If they are not installed on your system, that is fine. They are simply listed as being available drivers for installation in Synaptic.

With ubuntu (and most other distros) you are far better off using the repo drivers rather than stuffing around with manual installs.

If you really wan to play with manual installing the nVidia drivers, slackware is better for learning than the *buntus.

I've been using Slackware for more than a year .

As a matter of fact i'm not able to use nvidia drivers from rep either because as soon as i install, for an example from x-swat ppa, than system doesen't work like should be.

I often:

-cant login, picture switches after logging in and reverts back to login screen
-if i succesfully enter desktop than often i have only wallpaper without Ubuntu's taskbar, panels
-often computer stops at purple login screen
-when i enter desktop mode not everything related to x works (cairo, screenlets doesen;t load - it's just like system was half booted)

As a matter of fact works only 280.13 driver from ubuntu archives repo, but the same driver from nvidia doesen't at all - everything works...but when i open smplayer and such stuff as this than system log offs by itselves.

Installing from a PPA is NOT the same as getting the driver from the ubuntu repos.