Any Linux gurus here?

I really hope you’re parodying the previous question.

**good grief skulking from Arrested Development**

I wasn’t…

and to boot I dont get what this has to do with the homeless question

They removed the question I was referring to.

What about ubuntu do you need help with?

No replies yet over at the forum

Im running Ubuntu 8.10 in a vm in vmware fusion and I cant get the nvidia drivers to work.
I installed the VMware tools using a workaround thing i founf, since they dont exactly work by themselves yet in 8.10

Thanks for the help

Which version of Ubuntu are you running? That guide is made for Ubuntu 8.10 (after an upgrade, I believe), so you might try running that or if that doesn’t work first install an older versoin (8.04) and then upgrade to 8.10 to replicate the environment of the author of that article. Also, that article doesn’t seem to be about running it in a VM so that might add additional problems (I can imagine you’d need to use other drivers or something for that).

Also, you might try an older version in general because I believe some really old drivers were removed from the latest version. Or perhaps a newer (as yet unreleased) version.

Oh I see you’re running 8.10, disregard my comments on that ;-)

You might also want to check out getting help over IRC, live feedback often works very well (it’s a bit like a helpdesk).

the people on irc say that vmware emulates the video card and i will never be able use compiz or advanced desktop settings

cry

Perhaps you can use an alternative VM that does allow you to do that? Perhaps VirtualBox can? (Probably not, but worth looking for, right? :)

Anyway, I’m glad you got some clarity (even though it’s not the answer you had hoped for).

Also, if you are looking to just try it out and want to see what the desktop effects like, you might want to try installing Ubuntu using Wubi, which is really easy (it’ll install like any other application, assuming you’re using Windows) to try it out. Not recommend for permanent installation though.

Why not just partition your drive and have windows dual boot with Ubuntu? It will give you the max speed with both, and everything will run much smoother.

I already have 2 partitions (Leopard~160 and Xp~28), and as I understand boot camp can only handle two…. and I really dont want to screw up anything as I’m in school and can’t afford the down time. and my 200GB hd is already constantly full as it is.
im heard of using rreffit or something as an alternate mac bootloader but I’m not really in a position to risk it right now.

Sorry about the short answer but id be glad to help! If u pm me ill give u my email we can IM or email each other…