Driver activation via command line?

[Kir_B]

Thanks in advance. Any input would be very much appreciated.

Does anyone know a way to force a driver activation, or driver install from the command line in recovery mode?

Even better, is there a way to force a driver installation from the "(initramfs)" prompt?

We're having problems installing the drivers for a PNY GeForce FX 5200 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Video Card. It goes straight to the "(initramfs)" prompt with the new card installed and, without the card installed it won't allow any drivers to be activated via Administration>Hardware drivers.

Thanks everyone. Kirby

[devils casper]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Does it display any error message before dropping at initramfs prompt?

[Kir_B]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Does it display any error message before dropping at initramfs prompt?

Thanks for the response devils casper.

The machine in question is running a fairly new install of Karmic Koala.

Yes there are errors and here they are:

pm: Starting manual resume from disk
Done.
EXT3-fs error(device sda6) ext3_check_descriptors:
Block bitmap for group1 not in group (block 0)!
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/0a4bf2f0-2930-4be4-ad82-
7f05330f9ea7 on/root
failed: Invalid argument

There's more, but that looks like the pertinent part.

Thanks again.Kirby

[devils casper]

Does Karmic boot up fine if you unplug that card?

[Kir_B]

Sorry to take so long to get back to you, I've got "request policy" installed in my IceCat browser and it timed out allowing requests. Just one more thing i haven't gotten around to setting up. I'll have to get to that.

Yes it now boots fine. It wasn't booting at all a couple of days ago, because of a failed attempt at compiling a custom kernel. The xorg config file had entries that prevented us from getting further than the grub screen. We just simply had to blank it like it was originally.

Thanks for the help Kirby