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- KOROR - 2009-10-06 00:18
Thanks a million for a near insta-reply :-)
Quote:1) You only have to uninstall if it was previously installed. The code in my guide is for uninstall a manually built driver downloaded from NVIDIA homepage. If you have installed the restricted driver provided by ubuntu there is a different procedure. If you start with a fresh installation skip this step.
2) Stopping GDM will drop you to command line and this is necessary in order to remove the graphical driver currently in use.
How can I know/tell if driver was previously installed? I didn't install anything, but after using your guide to install the nvidia driver, the resolution changed to something much bigger than before installing it. So I'm guessing this falls under the category "fresh install" and I therefor have done the correct thing by installing driver from step 1 and skipping step 0?
Changing sound setting to only hdmi worked :-)
However, I don't think the HW curser ended up where it should have, see copy/paste below:
Section "Device"
Option "HWCursor" "False"
Option "HWCursor" "False"
Option "HWCursor" "False"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
PS. When installing Ubuntu I made 3 partitions, 1 for OS (Ubuntu), 1 for swap (not sure what this is used to) and 1 for media, on which partion does xbmc install when using your guide? Shouldn't I have a XBMC folder in my Home Directory?
PPS. Would your guide still work if installing "Ubuntu-Desktop-Minimal"?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1155961
- KOROR - 2009-10-06 00:45
Here is a screenshot that shows the curser/mouse problem, see top left corner
http://img225.imageshack.us/i/screenshot1ct.png/
- vikjon0 - 2009-10-06 07:57
Quote:Section "Device"
Option "HWCursor" "False"
Option "HWCursor" "False"
Option "HWCursor" "False"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
The HWcurser is in the correct place but you should only have it once...
I think your problem is another one and I do not know how to fix it.
- KOROR - 2009-10-06 08:23
Thanks for your help and patience vikjon, could you explain what you mean by:
Quote:(and the other fixes in the screen section)
how do I check this, can you copy/paste what I need to look for?
- stokedfish - 2009-10-06 09:08
KOROR Wrote:PS. When installing Ubuntu I made 3 partitions, 1 for OS (Ubuntu), 1 for swap (not sure what this is used to) and 1 for media, on which partion does xbmc install when using your guide? Shouldn't I have a XBMC folder in my Home Directory?
XBMC installs on the / (root) partition, just like every other app as well.
There is an XBMC folder in your home directory, but it's hidden > /home/user/.xbmc/...
- KOROR - 2009-10-06 12:40
How do I "show" hidden folders?
On a side remark, how do you guys play DVD and BluRay discs, what software are you using?
- forumache - 2009-10-06 13:08
KOROR Wrote:How do I "show" hidden folders?
On a side remark, how do you guys play DVD and BluRay discs, what software are you using?
Press Ctrl-H in Nautilus File Manager
DVD with XBMC
BluRay on PS3 (I have the ION 330 DVD version)
- vikjon0 - 2009-10-06 20:22
Quote:Thanks for your help and patience vikjon, could you explain what you mean by:
Quote:
(and the other fixes in the screen section)
how do I check this, can you copy/paste what I need to look for?
The other fixes I mean is:
Quote:ENABLE 1080p 24Hz (screen section)
sudo sed -i '50i\ Option "DynamicTwinView" "False"' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo sed -i '50i\ Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native" /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Make sure it ended up in the correct sections (I am not sure that this sed stuff is working):
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Update - pecke01 - 2009-10-06 20:47
I followed this guide and it worked great. Yeasterday I updated Ubuntu and now the picture is very choppy and movies play really bad.
Anyone else had this problem? And if so is there a solution... :confused2:
- vikjon0 - 2009-10-06 20:54
Try re-installing NVIDIA.