Monday, January 9, 2012

HowTo : Install Nvidia 96 for Natty, Oneiric (intel)

Hi all this time we will discuss how to install the nvidia-96 in ubuntu Natty do the following steps:


1. Download the Driver, here are two links:


Nvidia 96 and Nvidia glx 96


2. Open Terminal 
3. Move to where you downloaded the file
4. Install the driver using the following command:

sudo dpkg -i nvidia-96_96.43.20-0ubuntu1~natty1_i386.deb nvidia-glx-96_96.43.20-0ubuntu1~natty1_i386.deb 

5Edit "/etc/default/grub":

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

6.  Change this line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

To this :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nopat"

7After saving changes to the file, update your GRUB configuration by typing the following into the command line:

sudo update-grub

8Run the following command:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

9Edit xorg.conf

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

10Add the following section:
Section "Extensions"
Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load           "extmod"
Load           "glx"
EndSection
11. Add the following lines (above the "EndSection" in the "Section" Monitor "):

    Option  "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

12Replace Depth in SubSection "Display" to 24

    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection

13Change the DefaultDepth in Section "Screen" to 24


    DefaultDepth    24


14. Reboot


Done!


With this Compiz and OpenGL became more gentle and stable. If there is a problem put it in the comments box.


For the above version of ubuntu Natty its drivers below

oneiric



Nvidia 96 sorry for the nvidia-glx-96 is not yet available. (but, it's ok)


Precise


nVidia 96 sorry for the nvidia-glx-96 is not yet available. (but, it's ok)

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