Installing Nvidia Drivers And Nouveau For Riva Tnt On Ubuntu

At once I will tell that for RIVA TNT it is necessary to install a package of drivers nvidia-71 ubuntu or to download the driver from off.site http://nvidia.com. They will be fine installed, but if you change xorg.conf ubuntu in the Device -> Driver c nv section on nvidia you will get an error about the impossibility of downloading the driver nvidia_drv.so in ubuntu due to the fact that xserver does not support these drivers anymore, but on the off. Their website is not updated. Solution two ways either to roll back xserver in ubuntu to version 1.3 or install Nouveau, here I will describe how to install and configure Nouveau in ubuntu:

At once I will tell that for RIVA TNT it is necessary to install a package of drivers nvidia-71 or to download the driver from off.sayta. They are perfectly installed, but if you change xorg.conf in the Device -> Driver c nv section on nvidia you will get an error about the impossibility of downloading the driver nvidia_drv.so is due to the fact that xserver does not support these drivers anymore, and on the off. Update. Solution paths are two or roll back xserver to version 1.3 or install Nouveau, here I'll describe how to install and configure Nouveau:

At once I will tell that for RIVA TNT it is necessary to install a package of drivers nvidia-71 or to download the driver from off.sayta. They are perfectly installed, but if you change xorg.conf in the Device -> Driver c nv section on nvidia you will get an error about the impossibility of downloading the driver nvidia_drv.so is due to the fact that xserver does not support these drivers anymore, and on the off. Update. Solution paths are two or roll back xserver to version 1.3 or install Nouveau, here I'll describe how to install and configure Nouveau:

# To install Nouveau, execute from the root command

[Root] [~] # apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

Actually on it all, left to edit the file xorg.conf, below I will give my config file,

I'll just say the main thing to change in the Device -> Driver c nv section on nouveau

Section "Module"

Load "glx"

Load "extmod"

Load "dbe"

Load "record"

Load "dri"

Load "dri2"

EndSection

Section "Device"

Driver "nouveau"

EndSection

Section "DRI"

Group 0

Mode 0666

EndSection

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