64bit Ubuntu

[Toxic-Geordie]

Hi to all you out there,

I'm new to this site and Linux, and well I've installed Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit eventually.
I'm still having bother with my on board nVida graphics with Ibex OS so I'm just using a PCI card but the deeper I dig I find my new set-up is designed with Vista 64 in mind and it goes off to kiss ass at Microsoft first.

I buy the bits and they want to dictate what I can have on, spoilt brats in the same club.

I'd like to understand RAM and how I could vet what goes in there if that's possible.

I really like windows! I just don't like the monopoly it has and what I find now has made me see I wont be going back for a time, maybe never.

Any help thanks in advance and if you cant help thanks for reading.

[dandart]

Have you installed the proprietary drivers for nVidia? The free one doesn't support some chipsets quite yet.
To do it if you have the nVidia card in and it doesn't show up graphics correctly, but at least partially:
Go to the top bar where it says "Proprietary software/Restricted Drivers Available" click it and click the recommended checkbox and install it.

To do it if you can't get anything graphical from Linux from the onboard card :
Use your PCI card to start Ubuntu, and go to Synaptic (In System>Administration) and install the package "nvidia-glx-new" if your onboard nvidia is a new one (ie 6 series or greater I think), "nvidia-glx" if it's in series 5-7 or "nvidia-glx-legacy" if it's 4 series or less.

Probably needs corrections, I don't use GNOME.

[Toxic-Geordie]

Thanks for that I'll see if I can get my XP head round but funny you should say that because after install it says there are drivers for nvidia for a price, then after I get all my important updates on they go to free? I install them and then my problem starts (least you explain it now) and it stops me swearing in the runbox!

anyway thanks mate, I'm so new to all this I may just get an ATI PCI then un-windows myself first "like the quote Linux is not Windows! to right its not! its better maybe, just got to learn it now

[bigtomrodney]

No the drivers don't cost anything! The terms free and non-free refer to their 'openness'. The free drivers are open source and free to distribute. The non-free drivers are proprietary and cannot be distributed as they belong to nVidia/ATI. You can opt to download them yourself though. Just click on the icon and let it do the rest.

If that notification is gone you can go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers and do the same thing. These drivers are just packaged version of the official nVidia/ATI driver that you would download yourself from the manufacturers website.

[Toxic-Geordie]

Hey followed what yous have said and I've installed the divers and going to give it another go

[Toxic-Geordie]

Na, it just did the same only this time I just put the old card in and it let me revert back to it (much better than F-8 ) I also installed a front end for nVidia and it thinks it has an PIC card not an on board chip set (could be the card I got in? the Gforce model is stated in the downloadable driver pack so I just installed it like yous said.

One thing about the front end for nvidia says I need to X config and mentions I need to edit the file. Bit past me at the moment any tips on how and what you need to learn about linux file system and how to's would help a great deal. Its kinda what I'm trying to do but you don't have a daft Geordie section.

Anyway my want was to get 64bit to install and it has so till I understand more I live with it for now only I'd like to see 3D desk top on here next

[Bemk]

I feel really lucky with my notebook, 512 MB RAM, Celeron M processor and NO proprietary drivers required !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
(that's 512 !'s for those who want to know it)

[Toxic-Geordie]

Bemk I'm intrigued ?

I've just got a new zotac nvidia card, the Ubuntu data base updates the card but it still also puts the drivers on for the nvidia on board chipset only this time instead of going TU the PCI express card does what the onboard chipset supposed to do? Hey I ain't complaining just wish I could Matrix upload to my brain.