Comments on: Fixing NVIDIA driver issues on Ubuntu Karmic

By: george

george — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:55:48 +0000

i get the same as ramon install archives failed. this was all working fine on my karmic then my gl drivers stopped working so i tried to reinstall the 185 driver and then i have run into problems. i have done this many times in the past without problems (first removing the driver with sudo sh NVIDIA* –uninstall) and then reinstalling with sudo sh NVIDIA* so im wonderinf now why this doesnt work.

having them looked at the dkms problem (dkms status), and then using this jockey idea (which shows clearly that although i have removed nvidia i havent removed everything because it shows that i have 185, 190, and 195 (all of which i have tried and supposedly removed) still there but disabled and not in use.

it seems that if there was a way to completely remove all these drivers to avoid conflicts and start again it would proably solve the probelms, although i havent yet sem how to do this.

By: ramon

ramon — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:32:11 +0000

if any one have idea plz contact me
email : mr.m.elmahdi@gmail.com

By: ramon

ramon — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:28:13 +0000

when i try to do this i get this msg ” SystemError: installArchives() failed “

By: Manaka

Manaka — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:52:46 +0000

I had to add the line
Option “NoPowerConnectorCheck” in Screen section…

Now enjoying my good karma!

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:32:31 +0000

Yep, that did it for me on the HP mini 113. Thank you!!!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:13:55 +0000

@Chinmay The jockey-text commands do take some time. Does it hang (i.e. you can still type stuff into the terminal), or completely lock up?

By: Chinmay

Chinmay — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:29:21 +0000

My terminal freezes after running the -e command. Any workaround?

By: flo

flo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:31:27 +0000

Thank you!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:40:17 +0000

thank you, saved my life

By: scyntl

scyntl — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:18:10 +0000

thank you!