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If that is an NTFS partition, just leave it alone. If anything you shouldn't mount it unless its mounted read-only to grab files from it. A root partition and a swap partition is as basic of a setup as I would recommend. Segmenting out a /home /boot and such makes it easier to plan space for different functions, but it's really not a big issue on a home computer. As typically a single user will consume all of the local storage.
 
Excellent I thought that the FAT32 was the "swap" and that was giving me problems. I made a swap and now it works just fine...it dual boots windows and linux now just fine.

I was trying to install my drivers for my video card...looked in the help files and found I needed to install nvidia-glx for my 6800gt. So i download and install that, go into the terminal and type sudo nvidia-gxl blah blah (at work so i forget it all) but it then gives me an error saying something about the x server.

Is everything in linux so complicated?
 
Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
Excellent I thought that the FAT32 was the "swap" and that was giving me problems. I made a swap and now it works just fine...it dual boots windows and linux now just fine.

I was trying to install my drivers for my video card...looked in the help files and found I needed to install nvidia-glx for my 6800gt. So i download and install that, go into the terminal and type sudo nvidia-gxl blah blah (at work so i forget it all) but it then gives me an error saying something about the x server.

Is everything in linux so complicated?
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Ubuntu is a completely free distro, and as such does not include proprietary software such as Nvidia's drivers or some multimedia codecs. The result is that installing proprietary software can seem a little complicated at first, when you're not yet familiar with the basics.

Here is a link to the wiki that has straightforward instructions on finishing off the configuration of the driver install.

There are some distros that ship with the proprietary drivers as well. I think that pclinux and mepis both do.

Hang in there, I'm pretty new at this stuff too, and I had to deal with ati drivers. <shivers>

I found it worth it.
 
Is everything in linux so complicated?
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Depends on your outlook, I personally find most things in Linux much simpler than their Windows counterparts. It's only confusing right now because you don't know how the system works, once you figure out what parts do what it makes a lot more sense.
 
Yes I expected it to be a bit like this...I just find it very strange to have to go into the terminal to get stuff done. Its also strange to be at a dos like prompt and not know any commands...cause its not dos.

Its also very strange to go into folders and drives..and have no clue what folders are or how the folders are layed out.

this might take a while.
 
I live in command line...even in the windows world. I haven't looked at monad yet, but netsh was a godsend for using the command line to automate simple tasks.
 
Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
Yes I expected it to be a bit like this...I just find it very strange to have to go into the terminal to get stuff done. Its also strange to be at a dos like prompt and not know any commands...cause its not dos.

Its also very strange to go into folders and drives..and have no clue what folders are or how the folders are layed out.

this might take a while.
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Heh, I started with Gentoo and it only took me a week to understand how things are laid out etc. But for Ubuntu, it might be a bit longer. Nevertheless, if you're really interested in Linux, you'll probably start reading forums and learn everything in no time.
 
Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
Excellent I thought that the FAT32 was the "swap" and that was giving me problems. I made a swap and now it works just fine...it dual boots windows and linux now just fine.

I was trying to install my drivers for my video card...looked in the help files and found I needed to install nvidia-glx for my 6800gt. So i download and install that, go into the terminal and type sudo nvidia-gxl blah blah (at work so i forget it all) but it then gives me an error saying something about the x server.

Is everything in linux so complicated?
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Try this. You should just have to shutdown gnome while the driver installs. Then restart it afterwards. It should be reboot free, making it a bit faster than a windows driver update.
 
Originally posted by: Kibbo86
Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
Excellent I thought that the FAT32 was the "swap" and that was giving me problems. I made a swap and now it works just fine...it dual boots windows and linux now just fine.

I was trying to install my drivers for my video card...looked in the help files and found I needed to install nvidia-glx for my 6800gt. So i download and install that, go into the terminal and type sudo nvidia-gxl blah blah (at work so i forget it all) but it then gives me an error saying something about the x server.

Is everything in linux so complicated?
Click to expand...

Ubuntu is a completely free distro, and as such does not include proprietary software such as Nvidia's drivers or some multimedia codecs. The result is that installing proprietary software can seem a little complicated at first, when you're not yet familiar with the basics.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia">Here</a> is a link to the wiki that has straightforward instructions on finishing off the configuration of the driver install.

There are some distros that ship with the proprietary drivers as well. I think that pclinux and mepis both do.

Hang in there, I'm pretty new at this stuff too, and I had to deal with ati drivers. <shivers>

I found it worth it.
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Your link goes to a HTTP info site on wiki..lol


Thanks everyone for your help..googling how to fix my stuff at the moment...

This is what i am getting when I run the command to enable the driver
"Error: your X configuration has been altered.
This script cannot proceed automatically. If you believe that this
not correct, you can update the md5sum entry executing the following
command:
md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf | sudo tee /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
otherwise edit manually /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change the Driver section
from nv to nvidia.
"
 
Not sure how you installed it, but install it straight from nvidia's site. I'll give you some quick instructions that you can type from the command line.

1) Type sudo init 3.

2) sudo apt-get install gcc make kernel-source nano (just make sure these are installed if not already)

3) wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linu...762/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run

4) sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run (run through everything it says)

5) sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

6) Go scroll down till you see something like Section "Device". Look for Driver and within the quotation marks type nvidia so it'll look like Driver "nvidia" or make sure it says this. The nvidia driver installer should ask you if you want it to configure xorg for you or something like that at the end. That configured this section, but double check.

7) Hit Ctrl+x then hit y to save changes and exit.

8) Type sudo init 5
 
There's no need to compile anything in Ubuntu, just install the linux-restricted-modules package for your kernel.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Having a seperate swap parition offers better performance
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Not anymore. It was true in the 2.4 kernel, but today a swap file is just as fast as a partition. The installers just haven't been changed because people are used to using seperate partitions.

Also has side effect benifits like being able to setup a encrypted swap easily
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I haven't messed with encrypted swap but I can't see how it would be any easier. Worst case, you have to use losetup to associate the swap file with a loop device.

I don't know how to set it up to use a swap file.
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Exactly the same as you would a partition, mkswap/swapon.

Also you use the swap partition for enabling features like suspend-to-disk.
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With suspend2 you can use a regular file, although I haven't done it. With the in-kernel swsusp, yes you need a swap partition.

About the maximum size you need for a swap partition is about 2 gigs. Unless you want to do suspend to ram and have 2 gigs of RAM then you'd probably want 3 or 4 gigs of swap space just to be safe. That sort of thing.
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You shouldn't need double the swap space for just hibernation, and with suspend2 you can use lzf compression on the image to get between 40%-60% compression. It'll save you swap space and as long as your CPU is fast enough (or disk is slow enough) it'll speed up suspend/resume cycles.
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What about fragmentation problems with ext3 or reiserfs with a swapfile? Is that a non-issue? I've always used a partition, but I'm curious.
 
What about fragmentation problems with ext3 or reiserfs with a swapfile? Is that a non-issue? I've always used a partition, but I'm curious.
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The file has to be a fixed size, so just make sure you make it contiguous when you create it.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
There's no need to compile anything in Ubuntu, just install the linux-restricted-modules package for your kernel.
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I think that's what he tried. Apparently the nvidia stuff is buggy in that current package.
 
I think that's what he tried. Apparently the nvidia stuff is buggy in that current package.
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He says he tried installing the nvidia-glx package, but that's seperate from the kernel module. And if that's true that the Ubuntu built one didn't work, then I doubt it'll work any better compiling it locally.
 
You have to install the kernel modules, nvidia-glx and then run nvidia-glx-config enable or manually edit your xorg-conf if I remember right.

 
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