Can please anyone help me!!??!! I've installed Ubuntu 6.06 on my disk and it runs ok, but when I try to install "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8774-pkg2.run" by simply clicking on it, I get the following messege:"Could not open the file /home/blessed/Desktop/NV…-x86_64-1.0-8774-pkg2.run. gedit has not been able to detect the character coding. Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file. Select a character coding from the menu and try again." But when I try to do it via Terminal by typing in "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8774-pkg2.run" it says "sh: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8774-pkg2.run: No such file or directory". What am I doing wrong? How can I get this driver to work? Please keep it as simple as possible. Just getting to know Linux!!! Thanks

bordomat: I do not use ubantu I use various versions of RedHat all of the time. I suggest you check the permissions of the driver file you need execute permissions. Installing similar nvidia drivers involves: 1. Rebooting into init state 3 (no XWindows running) In Redhat the easy way for me is to edit the /etc/inittab file to start init 3 (default is 5) and then rebooting and you will get a full-screened terminal window. Once the driver is successfully installed than you can type startx to test it with xwindows and then whenever you want to re-edit the inittab file. 2. Logging in as root 3. Making sure you have execute permissions 4. At the terminal prompt enter "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8774-pkg2.run" 5. The install program will probably prompt you at a few places...something like do you want to add it to the kernel, do you want to install 32-bit open-gl libraries, do you want the install program to edit the X11 configuration file and one or two others, I just go with the defaults and have had no problems.

I managed to open the file, but I have another problem. When I try to install the driver I encounter the error message: "NO PRECOMPILED KERNEL ITERFACE WAS FOUND TO MATCH YOUR KERNEL..." and after that another error message: "UNABLE TO FIND THE DEVELOPMENT TOOL 'CCL' IN YOUR PATH; PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE PACKAGE 'GCC' INSALLED. IF 'GCC' IS ISTALLED ON YOUR SISTEM, THEN PLEASE CHECK THAT'CC'IS IN YOUR PATH." 1. How can I check what kernel I'm using? 2. Do I need to download anything and what that is? 3. How do I check if I have GCC installed? 4. How do I check if CC is in my path? Again...I'm new in Linux, so PLEASE KEEP IT SIMPLE AND CLEARE! I appreciate your time and effort that it takes to help me out!

6.06 should detect nvidea and install drivers when you run the initial install (of a desktop ISO). Did you install the "server" ISO? If so, why do you need a GUI? If you did not install the desktop version, try that. If your hardware is OK, you should not have to install nvidea drivers after the OS install.

Bordomat: I always do full installs as sometimes this makes things easier later. For Redhat this is only 5-6gb which is nothing considering todays hard drive sizes. GCC is the GNU C++ compiler. On Redhat if you tell it to "Install Everything" it installs and configures GCC automatically (along with many other things.) Redhat uses something called rpm's (remote package manager) to install some programs and the OS. I am not sure about Ubantu. If this were redhat you could do an: rpm -qa |grep gcc to see if gcc was installed. I'm not sure how to do it in Ubantu. This will probably be my last reply as it sounds like you really need responses from people familiar with Ubantu. Should you wish to try RedHat, Fedora (core 5 is the latest free version.) It can be downloaded here: http://fedora.redhat.com/ and many other places. RedHat Enterprise Linux is not free, but CentOS is compiled from the RedHat Enterprise linux source code and is free and can be downloaded at: http://www.centos.org. Harold