Installing NVIDIA drivers

Thermopylae_480 · 02-26-2006, 02:09 AM

Ok. I installed Mandravia 2006 but the GUI won't work. Whenever I try to boot the GUI i get a garbled incomprehensible image. I think I need to install the drivers for my video card. I tried installing them from a cd, but they won't work, it says I'm missing some sort of kernal or something. I need help installing the drivers, and without using the GUI interface, can anyone help?

Dynamic · 02-26-2006, 02:51 AM

You never should run the drivers for your GFX CARD off the cd-rom that it came with. Not only the drivers are outdated or as you have stated will give you issues as well. Go to their website "nVIDIA.com" and look for their latest driver version for your GFX CARD which should be 81.98 i believe. Here is a quick link....

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.98.html

Thermopylae_480 · 02-26-2006, 03:04 AM

Sorry. Thats not what I meant. I downloaded the LINUX Drivers from the NVIDIA website, and placed them on a CD. Then tried to install the LINUX drivers from the CD. Besides, your link is to Windows drivers, that definetly would not do me any good on LINUX. I apparently need to install the source kernal from the LINUX CD, but since I just now am leanring how to use LINUX I have no idea how I would go about doing this. Lol. I can't remember the last time I touched the driver CD that came with any of my last several video cards. I don't even have an original driver CD for this video card

.

Oh, by the way. The card is a 6800 GS, I think that may why LINUX is having trouble, I don't think the built in drivers support this card since it is somewhat more exotic than usuall.

15th Warlock · 02-26-2006, 05:10 AM

Look at www.guru3d.com, they have moded .inf files that make nVidia drivers work with all cards.
Don't you think it sucks when nVidia's latest WHQL drivers don't support the 6800GS AGP? (btw, I'm using the 83.90 betas, they work reall well for our card in windows, but dunno about linux though...)

Thermopylae_480 · 02-26-2006, 06:11 AM

Well. I'm not having any trouble with it in windows thankfully. I just can't get the GUI interface to work with both distributions of LINUX that I've tried. It could be the same problem though. If they are giving the 6800GS AGP the backburner in the windows drivers god only knows what they have done with the LINUX drivers.

Oh. I was looking at your system specs. How did you get your 6800GS to have 16ppl and 6vp? Mine only has 12 and 4?

15th Warlock · 02-26-2006, 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Thermopylae_480

Well. I'm not having any trouble with it in windows thankfully. I just can't get the GUI interface to work with both distributions of LINUX that I've tried. It could be the same problem though. If they are giving the 6800GS AGP the backburner in the windows drivers god only knows what they have done with the LINUX drivers.

Oh. I was looking at your system specs. How did you get your 6800GS to have 16ppl and 6vp? Mine only has 12 and 4?

Use RivaTuner to try to unlock the extra pipelines, read more here:

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/geforce_6800_unlocking/

If you're lucky you will be able to unlock the extra pipelines with no artifacts, and if the pipelines are broken, you just have to lock them again using RivaTuner, so no harm done

Good luck

EDIT: I'm sorry, you have the PCIe version of the 6800GS, there are no extra pipelines to be unlocked, you can unlock extra pipelines in the AGP version only, I'm sorry about it

, but at least you can OC your card to much higher clocks than the AGP version

Thermopylae_480 · 02-26-2006, 06:36 AM

Yeah. I forgot. Different chips for the PCI-E and AGP, oh well. Your right though I can get my speeds pretty high, which helps make up for it got the card at 509 and 622. I could get it higher if I had a better PSU.

Solaris17 · 02-26-2006, 02:13 PM

ewww

i feel like a dick cause i really cant answer your ?'s thermo i here everyware that nvidia's drivers are way eisier than ati's did u try just installing the drivers after u installed the os EX: install os boot into gui then try to install drivers as for the moduale its the agp gart moduale i think is what your talking about or just the graphics module in general it has to be loaded/integrated with the main one or loaded b4 the main kernal to work i also think u have to install the drivers in run level 3 (text mode) i mean iv read instruction manuals on how to install mine and it wont install right if ur in the gui i dont know or understand y but.................ill try to help out thermo but i dont own nvidia

nor do i have pci-e wich would make the agp gart mod. totally useless in ur case unless they (as in the modual) had something to do with both slot types.

Dippyskoodlez · 02-26-2006, 06:11 PM

You may be able to install using the VESA 3.0, use that to run X, then visit Nvidias webpage to download the drivers..

Thermopylae_480 · 02-26-2006, 06:41 PM

I'm already in text mode. I can't get anything inteligible to load when I try to start GUI mode. So I can't use GUI even if I wanted too.

I'll see what the Vesa 3.0 does.

Thermopylae_480 · 02-26-2006, 08:02 PM

Ok. I got the GUI working after I re-installed LINUX. I'm Using some sort of generic drivers that don't work to well, but at least I've made progress. Maybe now I will be able to install the Nvidia LINUX drivers.

Thermopylae_480 · 02-26-2006, 08:29 PM

Ok. I need to upate the source kernal before I can update the drivers. Any ideas? Been looking on google. Maybe I'll find something soon.

02-26-2006, 02:09 AM	#1
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02-26-2006, 03:04 AM	#3
Thermopylae_480 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fayetteville Arkansas, United States Posts: 2,643 (1.61/day) Thanks: 39 Thanked 413 Times in 284 Posts System Specs	Sorry. Thats not what I meant. I downloaded the LINUX Drivers from the NVIDIA website, and placed them on a CD. Then tried to install the LINUX drivers from the CD. Besides, your link is to Windows drivers, that definetly would not do me any good on LINUX. I apparently need to install the source kernal from the LINUX CD, but since I just now am leanring how to use LINUX I have no idea how I would go about doing this. Lol. I can't remember the last time I touched the driver CD that came with any of my last several video cards. I don't even have an original driver CD for this video card . Oh, by the way. The card is a 6800 GS, I think that may why LINUX is having trouble, I don't think the built in drivers support this card since it is somewhat more exotic than usuall. __________________ We're here to help. If you need anything, please contact a moderator. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. visit our sister site GamePowerUp! Last edited by Thermopylae_480; 02-26-2006 at 03:09 AM.

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02-26-2006, 05:10 AM	#4
15th Warlock Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Visalia, CA Posts: 1,330 (0.69/day) Thanks: 26 Thanked 18 Times in 17 Posts System Specs	Look at www.guru3d.com, they have moded .inf files that make nVidia drivers work with all cards. Don't you think it sucks when nVidia's latest WHQL drivers don't support the 6800GS AGP? (btw, I'm using the 83.90 betas, they work reall well for our card in windows, but dunno about linux though...) __________________ Main Rig: C2Q Q9550@3.6Ghz - Asus Striker II 790i - SLI BFG GTX285OC + EVGA GTX285 - 2x2GBs Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 2000 - SB X-Fi Fatal1ty Titanium - Silverstone OP100-E 1000W HTPC: C2Q Q6600@2.6Ghz - Asrock 4CoreDual SATA - Sapphire Radeon HD3850 AGP - 2x1GBs Corsair XMS2 800Mhz - SB Audigy 2 - X-Clio GoodPower 550W (gone, gave it to my brother) Laptop: Asus G50VT-X1 - Centrino 2 - C2D P8400@2.5Ghz - Intel PM45 - GeForce 9800M GT - 2x2GBs Hynix DDR2 800Mhz (tweaked w/ AS5 on HSF)

02-26-2006, 02:51 AM	#2
Dynamic Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 278 (0.19/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts System Specs	You never should run the drivers for your GFX CARD off the cd-rom that it came with. Not only the drivers are outdated or as you have stated will give you issues as well. Go to their website "nVIDIA.com" and look for their latest driver version for your GFX CARD which should be 81.98 i believe. Here is a quick link.... http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.98.html

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02-26-2006, 06:11 AM	#5
Thermopylae_480 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fayetteville Arkansas, United States Posts: 2,643 (1.61/day) Thanks: 39 Thanked 413 Times in 284 Posts System Specs	Well. I'm not having any trouble with it in windows thankfully. I just can't get the GUI interface to work with both distributions of LINUX that I've tried. It could be the same problem though. If they are giving the 6800GS AGP the backburner in the windows drivers god only knows what they have done with the LINUX drivers. Oh. I was looking at your system specs. How did you get your 6800GS to have 16ppl and 6vp? Mine only has 12 and 4? __________________ We're here to help. If you need anything, please contact a moderator. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. visit our sister site GamePowerUp!

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Thermopylae_480 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fayetteville Arkansas, United States Posts: 2,643 (1.61/day) Thanks: 39 Thanked 413 Times in 284 Posts System Specs	Yeah. I forgot. Different chips for the PCI-E and AGP, oh well. Your right though I can get my speeds pretty high, which helps make up for it got the card at 509 and 622. I could get it higher if I had a better PSU. __________________ We're here to help. If you need anything, please contact a moderator. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. visit our sister site GamePowerUp!

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Solaris17 Creator Solaris Utility DVD Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Midgar Posts: 9,538 (6.12/day) Thanks: 2,081 Thanked 1,489 Times in 1,171 Posts System Specs	ewww i feel like a dick cause i really cant answer your ?'s thermo i here everyware that nvidia's drivers are way eisier than ati's did u try just installing the drivers after u installed the os EX: install os boot into gui then try to install drivers as for the moduale its the agp gart moduale i think is what your talking about or just the graphics module in general it has to be loaded/integrated with the main one or loaded b4 the main kernal to work i also think u have to install the drivers in run level 3 (text mode) i mean iv read instruction manuals on how to install mine and it wont install right if ur in the gui i dont know or understand y but.................ill try to help out thermo but i dont own nvidia nor do i have pci-e wich would make the agp gart mod. totally useless in ur case unless they (as in the modual) had something to do with both slot types. __________________ I Made the Millionth post! Does it come with a mountain climbing lanyard? If not, I'm not buying one.-Mlee My Rig 8500/8600GT Mod Guide Rebuild a Copperhead Heat Ware NF4 Ultra SLI Mod Solaris Utility DVD 3.0 GPU-Z Soundcard Mod Guide Vista Mark

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02-26-2006, 06:41 PM	#10
Thermopylae_480 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fayetteville Arkansas, United States Posts: 2,643 (1.61/day) Thanks: 39 Thanked 413 Times in 284 Posts System Specs	I'm already in text mode. I can't get anything inteligible to load when I try to start GUI mode. So I can't use GUI even if I wanted too. I'll see what the Vesa 3.0 does. __________________ We're here to help. If you need anything, please contact a moderator. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. visit our sister site GamePowerUp!

02-26-2006, 08:02 PM	#11
Thermopylae_480 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fayetteville Arkansas, United States Posts: 2,643 (1.61/day) Thanks: 39 Thanked 413 Times in 284 Posts System Specs	Ok. I got the GUI working after I re-installed LINUX. I'm Using some sort of generic drivers that don't work to well, but at least I've made progress. Maybe now I will be able to install the Nvidia LINUX drivers. __________________ We're here to help. If you need anything, please contact a moderator. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. visit our sister site GamePowerUp!

02-26-2006, 08:29 PM	#12
Thermopylae_480 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fayetteville Arkansas, United States Posts: 2,643 (1.61/day) Thanks: 39 Thanked 413 Times in 284 Posts System Specs	Ok. I need to upate the source kernal before I can update the drivers. Any ideas? Been looking on google. Maybe I'll find something soon. __________________ We're here to help. If you need anything, please contact a moderator. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. visit our sister site GamePowerUp!

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