Craig Mayhew’s Blog

After much messing around with the router including doing a firmware upgrade I found the following method to work:

1. Plug a network cable into the router and into your computer (because this may not be easy via wireless).
2. Reset your router to factory defaults. This can be done by holding down the button at the back with a pin or pen until the light marked “ACT” starts flickering rapidly.
3. Get the MAC address of the router that Virgin Media sent you. As you will need the same MAC address before the cable/modem will talk to your Vigor router.
4. Login to your Vigor router and click “Interent Access setup” > “Static or Dynamic“. Then set “Broadband Access” to Enabled, set “Obtain IP address automatically” and then specify the MAC address from your previous router.
5. Save the settings.
6. Turn your router off
7. Turn your cable modem off.
8. wait 5 minutes.
9. Turn them both back on again and you should have a working internet connection.

Installing the drivers for the GeForce GTX 260 on Ubuntu 8.04 64 Bit is not exactly intuitive. The drivers aren’t found under “System > Administration > Hardware Drivers”. The drivers instead need to be downloaded directly from the nvidia site. The furthest I managed to get before finding this guide was getting the drivers to work fine until the computer was restarted, at which point it reverted back to “safe graphics mode”. However a person going by the alias of “starcannon” has been kind enough to post this guide on the Ubuntu forum. The original version is available at http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5086971.

Print out this guide, you will be in pure CLI for part of the install.
1)  Download the driver for your Nvidia Card from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

1.a) Make sure its in your home directory, this will make it so we don't have to change directories later when were in terminal.
2) Open a terminal: Applications--> Accessories--> Terminal
3) sudo apt-get install build-essential
4) gksudo gedit /etc/modules

4.a) Add "nvidia" without quotes to the list.

4.b) Save and Exit
5) gksudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

5.a) Add "nv" without quotes to the restricted list. It should look exactly like this: DISABLED_MODULES="nv"
5.b) Save and Exit
6) sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf ./xorg.conf.backup
7) sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

7.a) Were just deleting your old xorg.conf file, we backed it up in step 6 just in case we ever need it back again.

7.b) Getting rid of old drivers, use one or more of the sections that apply to you:

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If you used Envy to attempt a previous nvidia install please run this command now before you go on:
sudo envy --uninstall-all

sudo dpkg -P envy
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If you have some old Ubuntu repository/restricted driver manager attempts installed please run this command before you go on:
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*

sudo rm /lib/restricted-modules/.nvidia*
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If you have a failed NVIDIA*.run (drivers from the nvidia.com site) run this command before you go on:
sudo nvidia-installer --uninstall
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8) CTRL-ALT-F1

8.a) Okay were in Command Line only now, we have a little left to do in here.

8.b)login:

8.c)Password:
9) sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

9.a) This step shuts down the x-server and gnome desktop manager
10) sudo chmod a+x ./NVIDIA*.run

10.a) We made the nvidia installer executable.
11) sudo ./NVIDIA*.run

11.a) Answer to the affirmative for all questions.

11.b) Be sure to specifically say you DO WANT it to write a new xorg.conf

11.c) If you somehow answered incorrectly on the last question in the installer then:

c.I) sudo nvidia-xconfig #this will write a new or attempt repair of

an xorg.conf file for you.
12) sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

12.a) You should see an Nvidia Logo, and then be put at your login screen,

you should also be able to enable desktop effects.
Optional But recommended:

13) To get the driver to update itself when a new kernel is installed from the update

manager be sure to follow the guide in this link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5227704&postcount=1
Here's a click link for the guide mention in step 13
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...04&postcount=1
I will continue to update this guide as I find new things, but I am not really following this thread any longer as the OP seems to have moved on.
If I refer you to this guide from another thread, then please continue posting in the thread we met on. GL and hope this guide helps you.
~Starcannon

Thought I’d share some quick fixes to get Ubuntu 8.04 working on an Asus P5Q Premium motherboard.  These will probably also help with similar problems in Ubuntu 7.04 and Ubuntu 7.10 when using SATA drives.

The problems I had were centred around using a 64GB OCZ Solid State SATA drive. The installer would hang most of the time and when it did finally make it to the disk partitioning stage it couldn’t see the hard disk.

Enter into the motherboard BIOS and change the following options:

• Under Main / Storage Configuration change “Configure SATA as …” to AHCI. This will fix linux not being able to see the SATA drive.

Hope that saves you some time and trouble!