hey guys.. new ubuntu user here..
i installed ubuntu last night as i was getting pretty pissed with vista (bugs and some driver issues)

anyways after i installed the latest ubuntu 8.04 LTS my pc was fine the desktop everything was fine.. .
then i went to SYSTEM >> ADMINISTRATION >> HARDWARE DRIVERS and i installed what it told me to install.. after i installed the recommended display card driver.. and restarted the pc... my screen became pixelated and crappy.. with like some boxes in the middle and here and there... sort of like the screen became blur la.. so then i uninstalled the driver and restarted the pc.. .after that its all back to normal..

what happened?

EDIT: using NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

This post has been edited by bluswhitehat: May 27 2008, 08:58 AM

google the word ubuntu...

can anyone share some light as to why my screen looks like this..
last nite it was abit screwed up here and there.. i restarted and it was ok.... came back from college and now its like this.
(installed updates using the update manager last nite.. but i dont think thats the cause)

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no it effects the whole screen.. i've narrowed it down to the graphics card la.. something is messed up with the card... anyone has any idea what may have caused this?..
i put my friends graphics card into my pc and everything is fine.. just my graphics card is crazy...

sometimes its ok sometimes its distorted.. like now the screen is fine.. but earlier it was crazy.. with like small green boxes here and there... black boxes... black lines across the screen.. various coloured dots all over the screen... its a circus here lol

all my drivers are up to date..

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what happened??

hey guys.. need some help...

I downloaded a new Nvidia driver from the net. its a .run file and when i set it to be executed as a program it will run in terminal and then say i need to be logged in as root to continue installation.
I have already activated my root account and when i log out of my user account and try to log in with root and the password from the log in screen it will say you cannot log in as root from this screen...

How do i log in as root? or is there another way to install the driver without logging in as root?

Thank you.

sorry but it doesnt work la... it still says you need to be logged in as root to install this driver

when i install any type of driver for NVIDIA my screen will mess up... without a driver its all ok and working fine...
could it be some sort of conflict??

linux suxxxxx =p no not really but.. in some cases it does..

like my bloody graphics driver case.. and i dunno if you guys notice.. but.. when u type something in open office.. even though you save it as .doc file when u open it with microsoft word on another pc the formatting and allignment will 'lari' abit...

yeah most prolly im having some sort of driver conflict in my system even envy doesnt fix it for me.. have to reformat la.. lol
any way to completely remove any previous drivers that may have been automatically installed by the linux hardware drivers thingy??..

also... hmm i dunno what i did but in open office images are not displayed... assuming i open a .doc file with some images.. all the images will be displayed as 'graphics 1', 'graphics 2'.. .it wont display any images..... any idea why?

how much better is mint compared to ubuntu?

p.s. UbuntuClient.. i really like yr avatar haha

This post has been edited by bluswhitehat: Jul 27 2008, 11:44 AM

yeah i wanna try MINT.... but only when i have time to install la.. lol kinda busy nowadays

This post has been edited by bluswhitehat: Jul 28 2008, 12:02 AM

wats with the pics of all the chicks la??

haha i mean must back up my data all... will take at least an hr... dont really have even an hr to spare these 2 or 3 days... (exam time la.. assignments and all hehe)

lol... on windows i know how to make partitions la...
but on linux lol im lost... i just have one partition 320gigs lol

hey guys. im sure some of you are aware of my driver problems last time.....
anyways i just installed mint this morning and used envy to install the driver for my NVidia 8600GT .. but.. still same problem la.. with the pixelated screen and little colourful boxes here and there lol..

dunno whats the problem la.. i took my graphics card to the shop they guy said the card is working fine...

hahaha very the special one..

Xpert vision 8600GT sonic...
something like that... forgot the full actual name.

ohh...
anyways i think its safest for me to just run without any drivers installed la..
pc is fine without any graphics drivers..

p.s. mint rox..
p.s.s. wanna start a MINT thread?

I shall try that out.. but honestly ive tried so many ways to try to get the bloody driver working so many times.. sigh...