[ccp4bb] nVidia Quadro FX3000 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Ulens
Hi, I'm trying to install a nVidia Quadro FX3000 card on a PC running Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid. I run into the following error when I install drivers I downloaded from the nVidia site: The installer fails to find a kernel interface from the nvidia ftp site and fails to compile the kernel.

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia Quadro FX3000 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-07 Thread Partha Chakrabarti
Chris, Try this: sudo apt-get install envyng sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk fire the envyng-gtk interface from the command line or menu and see if it finds a solution.. HTH, Partha On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Chris Ulens chris.ul...@med.kuleuven.be wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia Quadro FX3000 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-07 Thread Tim Gruene
This usually means that you have to install the header files for your kernel. They come in a separate package, but I don't know its name for Ubuntu. The Debian package is called linux-headers-$(uname -r) (where 'uname -r' issued at the command line returns the version of the current kernel),

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia Quadro FX3000 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Ulens
Thanks envyng did the trick, but the emitter doesn't light up when I run pymol or coot. There's also no stereo sync on the screen. I've installed driver version 173.14.12 Thanks. -Chris On 07 Jan 2009, at 11:54, Partha Chakrabarti wrote: Chris, Try this: sudo apt-get install envyng sudo

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia Quadro FX3000 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Brooks
Hi, In Ubuntu the use of Nvidia drivers is very slick, or should be. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia Go to the System menu, then: System - Administration - Hardware Drivers A window opens up which then searches for proprietary drivers, and propose that you use Nvidia

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia Quadro FX3000 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-07 Thread Pete Meyer
FYI, the distribution drivers work fine on our systems with the X4600 (stereo and everything). Pete Chris Ulens wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a nVidia Quadro FX3000 card on a PC running Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid. I run into the following error when I install drivers I downloaded from the