(Spork) Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 so i download install 12.10 everything installs fine no troubles . run the updates fine then BOOM Comwiz i think thats what its called starts crashing non stop ( i have not updated my video card drivers yet ) so i can do nothing because of the constant crashing ... the one and only time i did update my video drivers ( on a previous attempt ) unity would not even load after i changed drivers O.o 12.04 runs perfectly so im forced to go back toi winblows 7 but want to run the newest ubuntu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 temporarily you could try installing a desktop that doesn't require compiz. sudo apt-get install gnome-panel, and then log into the gnome (no effects) session. What video card is it? redvamp128 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 If compiz is crashing then its likely a video driver problem. Its likely that you don't have any problems with Ubuntu 12.04 because you are running Unity 2D, which doesn't use compiz. Unfortunately, Unity 2D no longer exists in Ubuntu 12.10. One solution is to use another desktop environment, like ViperAFK suggested, but its possible that you could get Unity working with the correct driver (which would give you better graphics performance overall). If you post the output of the following commands we may be able to help you identify the problem and setup the right driver. (If you can't login normally, start Ubuntu in recovery mode and drop to a root shell from the recovery menu.) $ sudo lshw -C video$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log[/CODE] Also, you might find this thread somewhat related. It doesn't discuss your problem specifically, but it may help you to understand [i]some[/i] of the concepts perpendicular to it. (Spork) 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 temporarily you could try installing a desktop that doesn't require compiz. sudo apt-get install gnome-panel, and then log into the gnome (no effects) session. What video card is it? its a nvidia gforce gts 360m cuda 1g If compiz is crashing then its likely a video driver problem. Its likely that you don't have any problems with Ubuntu 12.04 because you are running Unity 2D, which doesn't use compiz. Unfortunately, Unity 2D no longer exists in Ubuntu 12.10. One solution is to use another desktop environment, like ViperAFK suggested, but its possible that you could get Unity working with the correct driver (which would give you better graphics performance overall). If you post the output of the following commands we may be able to help you identify the problem and setup the right driver. (If you can't login normally, start Ubuntu in recovery mode and drop to a root shell from the recovery menu.) $ sudo lshw -C video$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log[/CODE] Also, you might find this thread somewhat related. It doesn't discuss your problem specifically, but it may help you to understand [i]some[/i] of the concepts perpendicular to it. thanks ill give this a shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Fedora would accept you ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Good news! According to the nouvea wiki your GT215 is supported. There are just a few packages that you will need to install to get full graphics acceleration. You may do this via a root shell from recovery, like I mentioned before, if you need to. $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libdrm-nouveau1a linux-firmware-nonfree nouveau-firmware libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental libgl1-mesa-glx[/CODE] [b]Edit:[/b] My last post in this thread was just instructing you to get diagnostic information. Try my suggestions in this post first. If it doesn't resolve your issue, then go ahead and follow my instructions in the last post to get more specific details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Good news! According to the nouvea wiki your GT215 is supported. There are just a few packages that you will need to install to get full graphics acceleration. You may do this via a root shell from recovery, like I mentioned before, if you need to. $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libdrm-nouveau1a linux-firmware-nonfree nouveau-firmware libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental libgl1-mesa-glx[/CODE] [b]Edit:[/b] My last post in this thread was just instructing you to get diagnostic information. Try my suggestions in this post first. If it doesn't resolve your issue, then go ahead and follow my instructions in the last post to get more specific details. hey thanks for work ! but i have a gforce GTS 360M would the above command still work ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 hey thanks for work ! but i have a gforce GTS 360M would the above command still work ? Indeed. The command I posted is actually card agnostic; it will work for any nVidia graphics card that is supported by the open-source nouveau graphics driver. Also, if you look at the link to the nouveau wiki that I posted, you will see a list of nVidia's official names for each card paired with the nouveau code names. (Which makes sense since the code name identifies the GPU, which is what driver is actually concerned with, not the marketing designation.) Code Name: NVA3 (GT215) Official Name: GeForce GT (240, 320, 335M), GTS (250M, 260M, 350M, 360M) Quadro FX 1800M (Spork) 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 If compiz is crashing then its likely a video driver problem. Its likely that you don't have any problems with Ubuntu 12.04 because you are running Unity 2D, which doesn't use compiz. Unfortunately, Unity 2D no longer exists in Ubuntu 12.10. One solution is to use another desktop environment, like ViperAFK suggested, but its possible that you could get Unity working with the correct driver (which would give you better graphics performance overall). If you post the output of the following commands we may be able to help you identify the problem and setup the right driver. (If you can't login normally, start Ubuntu in recovery mode and drop to a root shell from the recovery menu.) $ sudo lshw -C video$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log[/CODE] Also, you might find this thread somewhat related. It doesn't discuss your problem specifically, but it may help you to understand [i]some[/i] of the concepts perpendicular to it. [CODE]tesso@PITA:~$ sudo lshw -C video *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: GT215 [GeForce GTS 360M] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a2 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:f2000000-f2ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128) memory:f3000000-f307ffff[/CODE] and [CODE]tesso@PITA:~$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log[ 11.291] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: MaxSpeed is now 1.75[ 11.291] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: AccelFactor is now 0.038[ 11.291] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1[ 11.291] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration profile 1[ 11.291] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000[ 11.291] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4[ 11.291] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found[ 11.291] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse1)[ 11.292] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates"[ 27.157] (II) XKB: generating xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-8C3648A5FD728529D869F46730BE1BC287DB231C.xkm[/CODE] and the error i get from the last command line you posted [CODE]tesso@PITA:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libdrm-nouveau1a linux-firmware-nonfree nouveau-firmware libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental libgl1-mesa-glx[sudo] password for tesso:Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... DonePackage libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental is not available, but is referred to by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, oris only available from another sourceHowever the following packages replace it: libgl1-mesa-driE: Unable to locate package linux-firmware-nonfreeE: Unable to locate package nouveau-firmwareE: Package 'libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental' has no installation candidate[/CODE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 OK, sorry about that. I forgot a couple of things. Since this is a clean install of Ubuntu, you don't have any of the extra repositories enabled (which are required for some of the packages I listed). Try the following: $ sudo apt-add-repository universe$ sudo apt-add-repository multiverse$ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libdrm-nouveau1a libdrm-nouveau2 linux-firmware-nonfree nouveau-firmware libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental libgl1-mesa-glx[/CODE] [b]Edit:[/b] If you can login normally and would prefer to add the repositories graphically, open [i]Ubuntu Software Center[/i] and select [i]Edit->Software Sources...[/i], then check the boxes for "Community maintained free and open-source software (universe)" and "Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse)" in the [i]Software Sources[/i] window. After you have done that you can resume my instructions above from 'sudo apt-get update'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 ok thats finally done ( my connection is crap tonight ) then i just select the driver ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 After you reboot the driver should be selected automatically. You can verify that nouveau is actually in use using lshw. $ sudo lshw -C video | grep config configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0[/CODE] You should get similar output to the above. If you have 'driver=nouveau' then you are using the correct driver. Hopefully you don't experience any more issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 After you reboot the driver should be selected automatically. You can verify that nouveau is actually in use using lshw. $ sudo lshw -C video | grep config configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0[/CODE] You should get similar output to the above. If you have 'driver=nouveau' then you are using the correct driver. Hopefully you don't experience any more issues. for some reason it did not set it for me i get this tesso@PITA:~$ sudo lshw -C video | grep configuration configuration: latency=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 In that case, you can try to force X to load nouveau since it is not being autodetected. Boot into recovery, drop to a root shell, and try the following to get an initial X configuration file. $ Xorg -configure$ nano /etc/X11/xorg.confSection "Device" Identifier "GeForce GTS 360M" Driver "nouveau"EndSection$ reboot[/CODE] The code above is an example of the minimum that you must have in your [i]xorg.conf[/i]. Its likely that 'Xorg -configure' will add more than just that. The rest is safe to leave, but I would remove everything other than the "Device" section since it is unnecessary. If you have no "Device" section in [i]xorg.conf[/i], add the one the I posted above; if you have a "Device" section that does not implicate the nouveau driver, replace its driver line with the one above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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