Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT & Kubuntu SOLVED

[Stephen]

It is odd that you had issues, I am running a 9500 gt at work with
Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit and had no issues with it showing up under
restricted drivers.

right now im having issues giving domain users permissions locally but
thats a different thread :-)

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:37 AM, wayne <waydavis at cox.net> wrote:
> Did a little more digging on the net and caught wind of a program called
> "envy" that configures the newer stuff. It worked. :-)
>
>
>
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> wayne wrote:
>> Interesting... I'm running 8.04.1 - Nothing shows up in restricted
>> drivers, |Also I cannot load the NVIDIA drivers either. Complains about
>> a missing LibC header and I cannot see what, where who, how it is
>> missing what it is asking for.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nadim Hoque wrote:
>>
>>> Assuming that the version of kubuntu is 8.10 and the fact that
>>> kubuntu uses the same repositories (or at least most of it) the
>>> drivers can be easily be installed under the restricted drivers. I
>>> have a geforce 9600gt under ubuntu 8.10 and the drivers installed
>>> simply a simple dialoge in the task bar  that i have restricted
>>> drivers (or something as such). If that does not work just download
>>> the drivers from nvidia. I don't know much, but i think, obviously,
>>> that you have to be out of x server and sudo run the .sh file.
>>> Hopefully that works
>>>
>>> Nadim
>>> On Nov 29, 2008, at 9:37 PM, wayne wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Has anyone on the list gotten the card to work with Nvidia drivers on
>>>> kubuntu?
>>>>
>>>> I was looking for any inexpensive dual DVI PCIe card that will
>>>> work....
>>>> anyone?
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