caleb Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Does anyone have any insight into which NVidia Driver I should use with Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel rev: 2.6.27-9) and an NVidia 8600. I'm currently on the latest driver from NVidia: 177.82. With this, the graphics are corrupt - with window contents scrambled, panes spilling content to other panes, and a constant stream of garbage graphics outside oh the Houdini window in the upper-Left corner of the screen. Then, it crashes, and requires a power cycle to reset. Any clues appreciated! -caleb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icaro Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Probably no help but Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel rev: 2.6.27-7) and an NVidia 8600. driver NVidia: 177.80 works ok with apprentice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf_cub_one Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Does anyone have any insight into which NVidia Driver I should use with Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel rev: 2.6.27-9) and an NVidia 8600. I'm currently on the latest driver from NVidia: 177.82. With this, the graphics are corrupt - with window contents scrambled, panes spilling content to other panes, and a constant stream of garbage graphics outside oh the Houdini window in the upper-Left corner of the screen. Then, it crashes, and requires a power cycle to reset.Any clues appreciated! -caleb Today I decided to move up to Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit from Unbuntu 8.04 64-bit. I tried months ago and had problem with my NVidia 8500 so I was forced to reinstall 8.04. The problem that I had was that I did an update from 8.04. Today I did a completely new install of 8.10 from the liveCD. Got Envy and chose the driver it recommended. Restarted and now everthing is running well--no content and text scrambled. Maybe this will help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icelab Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I got similar problem as caleb mentioned, with my Fedora 10 (x86_64, kernel 2.6.27-5) and GeForce 8600 GTS. But after I installed the beta NVIDIA driver 180.16, the problem gone. And now it runs smoothly: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1873716 Hope that help. Kam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanw Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 I got similar problem as caleb mentioned, with my Fedora 10 (x86_64, kernel 2.6.27-5) and GeForce 8600 GTS. But after I installed the beta NVIDIA driver 180.16, the problem gone. And now it runs smoothly:http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1873716 Hope that help. Kam Hi Kam, I'm curious how do you like Fedora 10? I downloaded it recently, but have been holding off installing it due to mixed reviews. Are you using RPM Fusion + Yum to install 3d enabled drivers, or do you compile them yourself the "unsupported" way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icelab Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Hi Kam,I'm curious how do you like Fedora 10? I downloaded it recently, but have been holding off installing it due to mixed reviews. Are you using RPM Fusion + Yum to install 3d enabled drivers, or do you compile them yourself the "unsupported" way? Hi Alanw, I used to compile the NVIDIA driver by myself using the following method: http://www.linuxforums.org/multimedia/inst...3d_drivers.html Not too difficult. Some remarks: Step 1) I used to install kernel-devel instead of kernel-sources. Step 6-9) not necessary for me. BTW, seems that I have to disable SELinux before I install the driver (and don't know why). After that, I can re-enable SELinux again. Hope my method will not destory your linux (I am not a linux expert anyway...) Kam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhaveshpandey Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 hey i'm running NVidia 8400GT, and recently installed Ubuntu8.10 The display is really great but when I open Nuke, I have patches on my display (only in the displayed image) I know this is not a Nuke forum, but feel the issue is not pertaining to Nuke, rather installation of drivers. here's the image http://www.flickr.com/photos/27793702@N02/3406115907/ any solutions?? (i'm just starting with linux..so please excuse if this is pretty simple ) I really like Ubuntu (having used it now) and would like to stick to it..would appreciate any help thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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