[PLUG] Wallpaper only after nVidia driver installation in Ubuntu 12.04

[Benjamin Kerensa]

You can use the newer nvidia ppa that the Ubuntu Desktop Team has for Steam
that should bump you to the latest. The ppa name slips my mind.

On Dec 1, 2012 11:39 AM, "King Beowulf" <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/30/2012 10:07 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> > On 11/30/2012 09:26 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> >> I have Ubuntu 12.04 running on my test system. I added an nVidia card
to
> >> the system <...>
> > Further searching turned up:
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > jockey-text --help
> > jockey-text -l
> > jockey-text -e xorg:nvidia_current
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > as a way to enable the nvidia driver from the terminal.
> > xorg:nvidia_current was enabled. But there was xorg:nvidia_173 listed
> > above current. I ran jockey-text -e xorg:nvidia_173 and rebooted. Now, I
> > do have the expected menu bar, and can run programs. Foobilliard runs
> > better than with the default video driver, but is not as smooth as on my
> > other machine. I suspect that's because the card in the test machine is
> > an old Quadro NVS 285 card with only 64 MB of total memory.
> >
> > However, I still don't have the second monitor. I ran nvidia-settings.
> > It only sees one screen. On the X Server Display Configuration page
> > there is a message that says,
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Unable to load X-Server Display Configuration page:
> >
> > The NVIDIA X driver on gateway-u 1204:0.0 is not new
> > enough to support the nvidia-settings Display Configuration page.
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > A somewhat odd thing: NVIDIA X SErver Settings on the test machine knows
> > what nVidia card is installed, the Quadro NVS 285. NVIDIA X Server
> > Settings on this machine says GPU 0 (Unknown). Right off hand I don't
> > remember what model card it is, but it does have 512 MB of memory.
> >
> Nvidia-173 and 295 are absolutely antique.  You'll need to check the
> exact card models to make sure you load the correct drivers. for
> Example, in a terminal:
>
> sudo /sbin/lspci
>
> should display what cards the kernel picks up.In my case,
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT
> 430] (rev a1)
>
> You might have better luck with
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-310.19-driver
>
> or
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-304.64-driver
>
> for the NVS 285.
>
> Also, make sure any motherboard GPU is disabledandthat the nouveau
> kernel module(open source driver) is blacklisted. Anyway, that's about
> all I can suggest since I run Slackware!  Ubuntu is just too damn
> windowy for my taste!
>
> -Ed
>
>
>
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