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How to Install Nvidia Video Drivers In 10.04 Lucid Lynx

 

New releases of any kind of software tend to bring what could be called "New Releases of Bugs".  Luckily it's actually not that drastic, I just try to be clever too often.  But one thing that seems to have been catching everyone off guard is loading up the Nvidia drivers with their new Ubuntu 10.04 installations. So, below are the steps to get your Nvidia video card running on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS.

*Update* 5/11/2010 I was able to finally replicate this on a machine a day ago. When I installed nvidia-current I received the error that the nvidia kernel couldn't install or compile. Strange, I thought. But after a moment I realized I had just ran the auto update in ubuntu. Sure enough a new kernel was installed. After reinstalling build-essential and linux-headers-`uname -r` the nvidia install went perfect. So if you are having issues reinstall your compiling tool set and then attempt the install again.

$ sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r'
$ sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
blacklist nouveau
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
$ sudo modprobe nvidia-current
$ sudo lsmod | grep -i nvidia
$ sudo nvidia-xconfig
  1. Open your favorite terminal (ie. Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and uninstall any and all nvidia components installed.
  2. Next we need to blacklist "nouveau".  Do so by adding the following into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf with your favorite text editor.
  3. Install the latest official stable driver from the repository
  4. Next we'll load the Nvidia kernel module
  5. Verify it's successful entry via lsmod like so
  6. And one last step, we must create the Nvidia configuration file.

There, all better?  Let me know if it worked well for you, and if not I'll do my best to help!

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38 Comments

  1. Steve says:
    May 27, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    [...] Orginal Howto: http://www.sucka.net/2010/04/proper-install-of-flash-for-x64-ubuntu/ [...]

  2. gabriel says:
    May 20, 2010 at 9:51 am

    hello, i got exactly the same errors
    “(EE) [drm] failed to open device
    (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
    (EE) Microsoft Microsoft® Digital Media Pro Keyboard: failed to initialize for relative axes.”

    and in a discussion (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466150&page=12) it got
    to a dead end.

  3. Dave says:
    May 12, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    Just noticed the compiler notes at the top .. and yes, had to re-install!
    But now I have this:

    sudo modprobe nvidia-current
    WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, it will be ignored in a future release.
    WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem, it will be ignored in a future release.
    dave@dave-mediaroom:~$ sudo lsmod | grep -i nvidia
    nvidia 7087672 0
    agpgart 31724 2 nvidia,via_agp
    dave@dave-mediaroom:~$ sudo nvidia-xconfig
    sudo: nvidia-xconfig: command not found

  4. Dave says:
    May 12, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    Just got back to this .. right now still no joy.
    Which .conf file(s) do you need to see?

  5. Brad Nelson says:
    May 12, 2010 at 10:30 am

    Found it. Running nvidia-settings solved the problem. It was a little tricky to find, though, on the “X Server Display Configuration” menu, there’s a “Model:” dropdown box. Pick your second monitor (whichever one is disabled) from the list, and then on “Configure…” select TwinView. Finish out your settings, and shazaam!

    Desktop effects are finally working!

    Thanks bro!

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