I'm trying to get the NVIDIA v177.73 Drivers to work on Linux Ubuntu v2.6.24-21-generic. I see some of you guys have it running on that Platform & maybe can offer some help.

Heres where I'm at, I can get the Drivers installed and actually run the CUDA Wu's, but as soon as I re-boot the Computer I lose everything & have to re-install the Video Card Drivers again.

I've looked around the Ubuntu Forum and found a few things that supposedly work but didn't when I tried them. Any suggestions other than don't re-boot to try or known things that work would be appreciated ... ;)

Upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid, its pretty stable right now and will be released in 8 days as new Ubuntu 8.10...

replace the release name in /etc/apt/sources.list like this or by hand:

cd /etc/apt/ && cp sources.list sources.list.tmp && sed 's/hardy/intrepid/g' sources.list.tmp > sources.list && rm sources.list.tmp

then start the upgrade:

aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade
aptitude dist-upgrade

I'm using that version for 2-3 months now and had no problems so far, it's already using driver 177.80

There are still some known issues, but nothing dramatical from my point of view:
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/beta#Known%20Issues

Or maybe try Fedora 9 (stable) or Fedora 10 beta.
Actually I like Fedora much more than Ubuntu... ;)
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Upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid, its pretty stable right now and will be released in 8 days as new Ubuntu 8.10...

replace the release name in /etc/apt/sources.list like this or by hand:

cd /etc/apt/ && cp sources.list sources.list.tmp && sed 's/hardy/intrepid/g' sources.list.tmp > sources.list && rm sources.list.tmp

then start the upgrade:

aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade
aptitude dist-upgrade

I'm using that version for 2-3 months now and had no problems so far, it's already using driver 177.80

There are still some known issues, but nothing dramatical from my point of view:
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/beta#Known%20Issues

I haven't used aptitude, but a

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

should do what you want...
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Yes, you need to execute both safe-upgrade and dist-upgrade to reach the latest level...
Whether you use aptitude or apt-get doesn't make much of a difference, in general the Debian devs recommend aptitude to do system upgrades.

If everything works properly, you will end up with kernel 2.6.27 and nvidia driver 177.80

Well the whole Linux installation is Toast now, can't get into it anymore. Thats the trouble with being a Linux Newbie & having to make to many decisions that you have no idea what your making a decision about, your invariably going to muck things up.

It never did say I had 2.6.24 installed even though a lot of different features did show up after I did the dist-upgrade.

Hmmm... Toast isn't a really exact statement... ;)
What does you Linux installation do now? Can you boot to a terminal?

Maybe you only have to reinstall the NVIDIA drivers because of the new kernel?
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Hmmm... Toast isn't a really exact statement... ;)
What does you Linux installation do now? Can you boot to a terminal?

Maybe you only have to reinstall the NVIDIA drivers because of the new kernel?

Press the ENTER key when ever there is a question, it won't harm you system :-D I never had problems doing that, it won't delete or overwrite important things...

When you reinstall Grub, Windows will still be able to boot, it is recognized by the Grub installer automatically.
When you are doing a reinstallation anyway, then use the Intrepid installer directly: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

Downloading it now, will burn & try later ... Thanks

I'm going to try & move the BOINC Directory Files off the C:\ Drive because their taking up way to much space > 1.2+ Gb's ... I'm running out of Drive space on that Partition so Boinc needs to be moved off it. I have to wait an hour or so though because 1 have 1 PS3 Wu close to finishing & I want it to finish first & reported if things go wrong with the BOINC move ...

I've done this move many times but now & then things get mucked up, and I've never tried it with the CUDA version clients either.

Linux 2.6.24-7 is installed, all seemed to go well & I got BOINC installed and running but most Projects it was just getting Computation errors on. The PS3 Wu's it was running ok & malaria control.net too. But Burp and Mindmodeling Wu's just erred out.

I was to tired to mess with anymore so just went back to Windows for the night and will look at it in the morning again. The whole install got sluggish while it was running BOINC and finally just re-booted itself, thats when I just went back into Windows.

So you installed the old 8.04 again?

At least for burp you also need the ia32-libs package to be installed. Otherwise projects that have only 32bit apps will error out all their work units...
mindmodeling offers 64bit Linux apps according to their page, check the stderr out field of the work units for a hint!

No, I did a fresh install of the 8.10 BETA Version & it's still there, I always forget about the 1a32-libs package because with 8.04 I didn't have to install them, the were already installed with the OS installation.

I'll check in a few minutes & install if need be, it could just be a permission problem too because the BOINC Folder is installed in the Root Directory. Why it got installed there I don't know because I put the executable in home folder before installing BOINC.

By the way thanks for the help on this koschi & Stephan too, Linux Newbies need all the help they can get ... ;)

PS: Don't know what happened but when trying to go into Linux all I'm getting now is:

GRUB Loading, please wait...
Error 17

Weird, but something did not work with your last installation...
2.6.24 is deffinitely an older kernel. Ubuntu 8.10 should use something with 2.6.27 I think...

I would try to delete all Linux partitions once again, then use the XP CD or Vista DVD to repair the MBR, and then try a fresh Linux installation once again.
(And maybe give Fedora a try ;) )
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Errrggghhhh ... My Mistake, I should have said Linux 2.6.27-7 is installed instead of (2.6.24-7 is installed) ...

I fixed the GRUB Loader using the Live ISO CD, did a little Goggle searching and found something that might work & it did. I rebooted a couple of times & the GRUB menu was still there so I think I'm okay for now on that.

Now I'll see what I can do about Wu's Erring out, will check for the ia32-Lib files & install if necessary & check the Permissions too. Let you know later what I found or did to cure the Problem ...

PS: The ia32-Lib Drivers weren't installed, I installed them and so far all Projects run okay ... :)