This release will enable you to install Nvidia’s Beta driver 100.14.03 which adds the support for GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8600 GT, GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8400 GS, and GeForce 8300 GS.
You can get it here
Enjoy!
This release will enable you to install Nvidia’s Beta driver 100.14.03 which adds the support for GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8600 GT, GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8400 GS, and GeForce 8300 GS.
You can get it here
Enjoy!
I’m afraid I get an MD5 error when trying to install the beta NVIDIA drivers.
I have an 8600GT
Here is the reading from the envy terminal.
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python pulse.py nvidia latest
root@danny-desktop:/usr/share/envy# python pulse.py nvidia latest
Ubuntu Feisty 32bit
rm: cannot remove `/lib/linux-restricted-modules/.nvidia*’: No such file or directory
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package nvidia-glx is not installed, so not removed
E: Couldn’t find package nvidia-kernel-2.6.20-15-generic
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package nvidia-glx-new is not installed, so not removed
E: Couldn’t find package nvidia-new-kernel-2.6.20-15-generic
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package nvidia-glx-legacy is not installed, so not removed
Package nvidia-legacy-kernel-source is not installed, so not removed
Package nvidia-settings is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
rm: cannot remove `/usr/src/nvidia*.deb’: No such file or directory
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package fglrx-control is not installed, so not removed
E: Couldn’t find package fglrx-kernel-2.6.20-15-generic
rm: cannot remove `/usr/src/fglrx*.deb’: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/usr/src/*.deb’: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel’: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/usr/src/modules/fglrx-kernel’: No such file or directory
An installer has been detected
md5new: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
md5sumold: 6e51f092653c4a67037e9893c1c4a71f
ENVY ERROR: md5 Error! Trying to fetch the driver from the website
No installer detected
Download of the driver in progress, please wait
–16:30:34– http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-100.14.03/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-100.14.03-pkg0.run
=> `NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-100.14.03-pkg0.run’
Resolving us.download.nvidia.com… failed: Connection timed out.
md5sum: /usr/share/envy/nvidia-graphics-drivers/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-100.14.03-pkg0.run: No such file or directory
md5new: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
md5sumold: 6e51f092653c4a67037e9893c1c4a71f
ENVY ERROR: md5 Error! Operation aborted
root@danny-desktop:/usr/share/envy#
hey ho 😀
first of all, i want to say you !!__THANKS__!! for envy. that is exactly what i dreamed of. and you seem to read my thoughts and release a version with support of the beta driver. *hug* 😀
to the problem: the url on the nvidia for the file is not correct. it have to be: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/100.14.03/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.03-pkg2.run for x64 systems. (note: not “1.0-100.14.03” but “100.14.03”)… no problem i thought ^^ mv “wrong” to “correct”. but bad luck. it failed again. here my console output:
— snip —
md5new: e752e88f07a56888cb1a535e7008f2a8
md5sumold: e752e88f07a56888cb1a535e7008f2a8
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “pulse.py”, line 43, in
choice(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
File “pulse.py”, line 9, in choice
objects.maninstall3(‘nvidia’, ‘latest’)
File “/usr/share/envy/instun/objects.py”, line 484, in maninstall3
task.strippedver()
File “/usr/share/envy/instun/classes.py”, line 355, in strippedver
next = int(stripped[0]) + 2#the next version of the driver (needed by the Debian scripts)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘100.14.03’
— snip —
the problems seems to be only the version number of the driver. i think this is not a big deal.
greetings from switzerland 😀
I am no longer getting the connection timed out message, but:
Download of the driver in progress, please wait
–17:23:18– http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-100.14.03/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-100.14.03-pkg0.run
=> `NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-100.14.03-pkg0.run’
Resolving us.download.nvidia.com… 84.53.173.128, 84.53.173.145
Connecting to us.download.nvidia.com|84.53.173.128|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
17:23:19 ERROR 404: Not Found.
I guess this is just fault of the nvidia servers.
Sorry for all the messages.
1.0-100.14.03 doesn’t exist on the server. It is 100.14.03.
DannyW:
I’m working on it. Nvidia changed the name of the driver
Ok, you can try the version I have just released.
Dear Alberto,
I just tried to run envy, which seems a great tool.
The problem for me is that I am behind a proxy, so it will not download the latest driver from nvidia (the 100. …for my 8600 GTS).
Now I can download the driver, but running the “sh Driver” somehow fails.
So I was wondering if there is a chance of using your program, point it the local driver file and have the script do an easy installation.
All the best and thanks for your effort
Robin
@Robin
Download this file:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg0.run
then put it into /usr/share/envy/nvidia-graphics-drivers/
and run Envy again.
You say that after having Envy set up your video card you will need to “uninstall the driver” if you upgrade Ubuntu. How would you do this safely? I currently have Feisty so wouldn’t be upgrading any time soon but I worry about complications in the future when a new release of Ubuntu is available.
@Jared
open Envy and select either “Uninstall the NVIDIA driver” or “Uninstall the ATI driver”. That’s all