{"id":5,"date":"2007-07-16T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.robinward.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:18:25","slug":"ubuntu-nvidia-howto-on-geforce-8xxx-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu howto: 3D support on nvidia GeForce 8xxx cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Get the current linux-nvidia drivers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\" target=\"_blank\">nvidia.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Instal build-essentia, xserver-xorg-dev, linux-headers-&#8216;insert your kernel version here<br \/>\n<code>sudo apt-get install build-essential xserver-xorg-dev linux-headers-2.6.x<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Stop your x.org server<br \/>\n<code>sudo \/etc\/init.d\/.\/gdm stop<\/code><\/li>\n<li>In \/etc\/default\/linux-restricted-modules-common, add <strong>nv<\/strong> to <strong>DISABLED_MODULES=&#8221;&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Run the installation script you got from nvidia, it should take you through the installation process. When asked if you want to download a suitable Kernel from nvidia, select no.<\/li>\n<li>When asked if you want to auto-configure xorg.conf select yes and reboot your machine.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the current linux-nvidia drivers from nvidia.com Instal build-essentia, xserver-xorg-dev, linux-headers-&#8216;insert your kernel version here sudo apt-get install build-essential xserver-xorg-dev linux-headers-2.6.x Stop your x.org server sudo \/etc\/init.d\/.\/gdm stop In \/etc\/default\/linux-restricted-modules-common, add nv to DISABLED_MODULES=&#8221;&#8221; Run the installation script you got from nvidia, it should take you through the installation process. When asked if you want &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinward.com\/?p=5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ubuntu howto: 3D support on nvidia GeForce 8xxx cards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}