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I installed automatix and used that to install both googleearth and the nvidia drivers worked a treat On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 16:37 +0000, Simon Robert wrote: > > Mark Jose wrote: > > On Friday 10 November 2006 21:57, Simon Robert wrote: > > > >> My current big problem with kubuntu is googleearth. My graphic card is > >> nvidia gforce. I've installed all the nvidia stuff from repositories and it > >> does solve the running very slow or not at all in gtk, but I get a high > >> definition fractured picture, ie zoom in and get bits of loads of countries > >> at random. > >> > >> With mandriva I had to use a nvidia driver about a year old, but I tried > >> this and it tottalled kubuntu. > >> > >> Any ideas > >> > >> Simon > >> > >> -- > >> simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> www.oldhouse-cottage.co.uk > >> > > > > Totalled in what way? I have run both the nVidia driver from the Ubuntu > > repositories and the one from nVidia without problems, so it is possible to > > use either. Did you have problems with building the driver for instance or > > forgot to edit xorg.conf after installing it? The (K)ubuntu driver does need > > some specific packages installing to work, the nvidia website version needs > > the various packages to enable you to build it and the kernel sources. > > If you can expand on the problems you had, it should be possible to sort it > > out fairly quickly. > > > > Mark > > > > > totalled in that the x server would no longer run and I could only have > a command line login. Are you actually running googleearth? As I have > successfully installed the nvidia drivers, via adept, but they don't > solve the googleearth problems. > > I found with mandriva that the latest nvidia driver did the same thing, > a kind of fractalised planet, but a slightly older version, found via > the googleearth forum, ran it correctly. It was building this one that > trashed the x server. > > I thought I had installed the needed bits of kernel source, but maybe not. > > What do I need in order to compile a driver downloaded from nvidia? Come > to that how do I turn off the xserver in kubuntu? It don't take the init > command and I can't even find the file (name presently escapes me, but I > do know), which I can edit to change the run level from 5 to 3. I did > the single user logon which seems to be without x, but that's when the > xserver stopped working. Not being root don't help as sudo isn't the same. > > Any advice welcome. > > Simon > > -- > simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > www.oldhouse-cottage.co.uk > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html