15 Feb
2013
15 Feb
'13
10:43 a.m.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:54:13 +0100, John Murphy
<rosegardener(a)freeode.co.uk> wrote:
A good suggestion, thank you, but no difference
unfortunately.
I stopped the display manager (lightdm) from a virtual terminal
and tried 'sudo apt-get install nvidia-310-dev'. It worked, but
still no working driver according to nvidia-settings. After running
nvidia-config I'm limited to 640x480, which doesn't help.
That's what I would have expected. Possibly the 'studio' parts are
causing the problem then (in that I probably don't have the right
linux-headers or something similar).
First, ask yourself, if you really need proprietary drivers (and I can't
really speak for the reasons to why you should or should not need them).
The free drivers have in fact become more or less fully functional, so you
might not need the proprietary ones. I was even using the free drivers
playing steam games recently (all though, not problem free).
This is not a desktop problem at all. So, it doesn't matter if you're
using XFCE, KDE
or Gnome. The only two things that are involved is the kernel (and
associated libraries and tools), and the driver.
to build the nvidia kernel module you need the headers for the kernel you
are running, but that should take care of itself when you install
something like nvidia-304. Make sure you are running the kernel you are
intending to build the module for, before proceeding.
Also, move your xorg.conf, if you have one.
There's the method of using Software Sources (software-properties-gtk),
under the tab "Additional Drivers", where you can select a number of
options.
You get the same result when installing from the terminal. All I did was
"sudo apt-get install nvidia-304". This was on "3.8.0-6-lowlatency".
There's always the chance that previous kernels did not work well with the
proprietary drivers.
I've
had similar problems before, requiring various blacklisting
of Nouveau and certain framebuffer drivers, but before I try that;
is there some other possible reason why ubuntu-studio 13.04 or
XFCE isn't likely to work with (closed) nvidia drivers?
XFCE shouldn't care a bit about which video driver you use; it's just
using X. I've used XFCE on closed NVidia drivers (not the version you're
talking about) without any problems. Installed them using Synaptic with
no problems.