A fast way to install ATI and NVIDIA drivers in Ubuntu
March 12, 2007
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March 12, 2007 at 4:37 am
I first noticed Envy few month ago, Alberto Milone made a very simple process for installing video drivers. he is very active in ubuntu forums as well.
March 12, 2007 at 10:06 am
Thx a lot for this. I was just looking for this as I’m switching to Ubuntu because Vista is terrible.
March 12, 2007 at 10:14 am
envy sounds nice, i’ve recently installed ubuntu and im currently flying on a x1900 ati-card. so, it does not just install nvidia but also my precious x1900? at work atm, cannot check it out for myself, maybe you can rise my hopes for this shitty day to be, eventually, successful.
been trying to get ati-drivers working for two evenings now, and since im a beginner in linux im loving the challenge but right now i just want it to work asap so i can get on to the next piece of customization 🙂
March 12, 2007 at 11:51 am
I had a problem with my Xorg.conf file after installing Beryl and after that, my resolution became blurry and would only work at 1024*768 but then I installed Envy and ran the install.
It worked like a charm and I am able to see the screen in crisp resolution.
I recommend using this.
March 12, 2007 at 3:15 pm
As of March 12th, the latest stable version of Envy is version 0.9.1-0ubuntu3, not 0.8.1-0ubuntu6
March 12, 2007 at 3:35 pm
thanks for your information…
March 12, 2007 at 5:14 pm
I have used Envy many times (when an upgrade requires I reinstall the nVidia drivers) and it has worked flawlessly every time.
Many thanks to Alberto.
March 12, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Cool, thanks for writing this. I’ve bookmarked it for all our Ubuntu users.
March 12, 2007 at 5:35 pm
ok this shows just the nvidia drivers what about the ATI ones ???
March 12, 2007 at 5:47 pm
“so, it does not just install nvidia but also my precious x1900?”
Yes, I used it just a bit ago and it had me choose between nVidia and ATI drivers.
March 12, 2007 at 5:59 pm
William is right, here is a link to the new version. http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb
March 12, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Small addendum:
I haver never used Ubuntu (just a few other debianoids), but on no Linux distribution I have encountered, Ctrl-Alt-F1 kills X; it just switches over to Terminal 1.
March 12, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Great script!!!!! Thanks so much for the tip.
March 12, 2007 at 6:29 pm
No luck with my x1950 pro… once the drivers are installed X will fail at startup.
March 12, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I understand that this is “breathtakingly easy” as opposed to the previous installation scripts and hacks to get everything working, but from a user standpoint? Ubuntu is supposed to be the most human-friendly version of linux to date, and it largely is, but barriers like this will keep 90% of regular users from from ever getting farther than a basic install.
March 12, 2007 at 6:58 pm
And ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn’t ‘kill X-Windows’, it switched to the first text console. X-Windows is still running, and you can get back to it with ctrl-alt-F7.
March 12, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Actually, automatix is pretty easy, too:
http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation
has many other goodies a well. I haven’t actually tried envy, so I’m not dissing it or you, just suggesting more easy solutions for the n00bs.
😉
March 12, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Does this driver install take care of the massive fan noise on the ATI card?
When I installed the ATI baked drivers, my fan on the card would kick on every 5 minutes…
March 12, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Linux rocks, Vista sucks
(my point… Linux rocks, vista sucks)
Nice post about installing graphics cards in linux…
March 12, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Awesome! It worked without a hiccup.
Thanks
March 12, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Envy does not work on my laptop. It appears to not recognize Geforce2Go. While I can get my graphics card working under Gentoo, Mandrake and Red Hat, I never got it working under Ubuntu. Envy didn’t help. In fact, it just fell flat. It specifically picked the wrong NVidia drivers, and I could see a message on the prompt saying they were the wrong drivers. I guess Envy doesn’t pay attention to the console output it produces!
Ah well I don’t need Ubuntu anyway.
March 12, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Uh, Ctrl-Alt-F1 does not kill X, it only switches virtual terminals.
Also, there’s no such thing as X-Windows. It’s “X” or the “X Windowing System”.
March 12, 2007 at 10:45 pm
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March 12, 2007 at 11:31 pm
hi im trying to install drivers for an NIC in my distro, im new to linux and not sure what to do, please can someone post me some url’s to tutorials that may help…cheers shane
March 12, 2007 at 11:58 pm
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March 13, 2007 at 1:43 am
Thank You! Thank You! I’ve been looking like a fiend for something that would work. This worked first time! Now I can leave Window$ forever. (To Myself) “Free! I’m Free!”
March 13, 2007 at 2:49 am
Wow. I would have paid money for that not all that long ago…
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March 13, 2007 at 2:52 am
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March 13, 2007 at 4:25 am
Nice find, though I don’t think I will switch to using it, as I’ve become accustomed to installing the drivers through Synaptic and editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand.
March 13, 2007 at 10:13 am
Great stuff – But i don’t see any guide for ATi-users?
March 13, 2007 at 1:28 pm
There is a new version of this package with an extremely easy GUI just see the main page.
March 13, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Great suggestion, thank you..
BTW, you are not “killing” X11 when you hit ctrl+alt+f1, you are simply switching to a text console. Hitting ctrl+alt+f7 will bring you back to your X session uninterrupted.
March 13, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Just listing the creators page. Also there is now a gui where you can remove/install the drivers from inside X
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
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March 14, 2007 at 12:33 am
Nice. I’m just getting pass being a noob and well.. programs such as this just make it that much easier.
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March 14, 2007 at 3:24 pm
please link to the project page
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
the linked version is outdated. Even if happened once that it worked when the newest one failed to. (is it English I’m writing in ?)
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March 18, 2007 at 7:41 pm
this leaves me with a broken X server. lame. i don’t need ubuntu anyway.
March 21, 2007 at 12:28 pm
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March 22, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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March 28, 2007 at 7:52 am
THanks for this. I has having a hard time installing the drivers manually, but Envy made it easy. 🙂
March 31, 2007 at 3:33 pm
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April 10, 2007 at 9:19 am
Hi,
I tried Envy under Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (beta) but get this error in the log file:
ENVY ERROR: Your Operative System does not seem to be supported by Envy
Any prospect on support for the latest Ubuntu?
April 12, 2007 at 5:22 pm
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April 13, 2007 at 1:55 am
God bless you all… I’m a linux noob, getting ready to run windows only in VM… this ATI thing was killing me.
April 19, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Hi,
I’ve been running Feisty for about 8 weeks (beta). Everything was working great until I tried the new Nvidia glx 9631 driver with my Geforce3 TI200. The advanced 3D features seemed to work okay, but I discovered that certain window button behavior wasn’t working. In Gnome-term, for example, I would sometimes have to give the “exit” command to close the terminal, instead of clicking the upper right “X” button.
So, I decided to return to the original driver. I used Synaptic to uninstalled 9631 and re-install 9755 (nvidia-glx-new). After running “sudo nvidia-glx-config enable” I received an error message and ended up in a vicious circle of booting into recovery mode and changing the xorg.conf file, only to find that I could never get the proprietary driver enabled. I’m still stuck with the generic nv driver.
So please, Alberto, if you hear people say that Feisty doesn’t need Envy, don’t listen to them. Feisty does not handle these drivers properly, and even a moderately experienced Linux guy like me will greatly appreciate your updating Envy to support Feisty. Thanks for all your work.
April 20, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn’t kill X. This command switches to a full screen console. The key combination to kill X is Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
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June 12, 2007 at 4:59 pm
@ Ravan
I had the same problem but after I tried envy 0.9.5 everything was OK with script. eventhought after installation I still ahve problem with my resolution.
try to get the new envy from here:
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb
GOOD LUCK.
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