On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:41:06 -1000, david wrote: > On 02/13/2013 10:58 AM, John Murphy wrote: > > I've installed Ubuntu Studio 13.04. It has a real time version > > of the latest kernel and I quite like the XFCE desktop, although > > I'm more used to KDE. It boots from Grub in about seven seconds, > > which is remarkable. > > > > But I use one installation for all and I really need proprietary > > Nvidia drivers. Preferably version 310. I've tried installing > > 'nvidia-current' which provides v304, but doesn't work. An 'apport' > > problem is mentioned in the (Synaptic) details during install and > > the 'Nvidia Settings' widget reports no working driver installed > > and to try running 'sudo nvidia-config' (or something like that) > > which I tried. Even tried copying a known good xorg.conf from my > > currently working KDE (12.04). On a previous attempt I tried most > > variations of 310 and something from an xorg-edgers ppa. > > Perhaps the closed driver needs to be installed when X is not running? > Try from a text login? A good suggestion, thank you, but no difference unfortunately. I stopped the display manager (lightdm) from a virtual terminal and tried 'sudo apt-get install nvidia-310-dev'. It worked, but still no working driver according to nvidia-settings. After running nvidia-config I'm limited to 640x480, which doesn't help. > > I've had similar problems before, requiring various blacklisting > > of Nouveau and certain framebuffer drivers, but before I try that; > > is there some other possible reason why ubuntu-studio 13.04 or > > XFCE isn't likely to work with (closed) nvidia drivers? > > XFCE shouldn't care a bit about which video driver you use; it's just > using X. I've used XFCE on closed NVidia drivers (not the version you're > talking about) without any problems. Installed them using Synaptic with > no problems. That's what I would have expected. Possibly the 'studio' parts are causing the problem then (in that I probably don't have the right linux-headers or something similar). > Can't answer for Ubuntu 13, though. Ubuntu's Unity interface tries to do > what I consider fancy stuff for the desktop UI, so it might be more > sensitive to drivers. (Like KDE4 in that area, I think.) I tried Ubuntu 13.04 between attempts with the studio version. It would only boot to a rescue 'low graphics' mode, which turned out to be just a login prompt, but I was able to update and then install nvidia-current OK on that and it worked fine on the next reboot. > But I think if you can't even get X to run the driver in the first place > (boot to a text login, login and run "startx"), you haven't even gotten > to the point where XFCE or the Ubuntu UI is trying to use it. Just downloaded a daily build of Xubuntu 13.04. I'll try starting from there. All of these Raring-Ringtail installs are a bit awkward for me, as there's a bug which means I have to disconnect all HDDs bar the one on which I'm going to install. :| Thanks. -- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
