Chanel's Blog » ubuntu dell http://cmunezero.com Where code meets love... and a lot of awkward silences... Tue, 11 May 2010 21:17:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ubuntu Sound and Video Problems http://cmunezero.com/2008/06/23/ubuntu-sound-and-video-problems/ http://cmunezero.com/2008/06/23/ubuntu-sound-and-video-problems/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:08:47 +0000 chanel http://cmunezero.com/?p=47 For the longest time, I’ve had terrible luck with sound and video problems with Ubuntu on a Dell Dimension E521 with nVidia sound and video cards. I thought it was terrible support by nVidia. Everytime I would update my computer, it would totally trash my video settings and sometimes, my sound settings.

Today after doing a bunch of updates, both my video and sound went to crap. With the help of my favorite Linux hacker, Travis, we figured out that I was actually running the server version of the Linux kernel. Next, I uninstalled all instances of the server kernels, uninstalled all nvidia drivers and modules, and rebooted. From there, I followed the basic steps to install nVidia drivers, configured my screen settings and now I am able to run all of the fancy Compiz visuals and my Ubuntu install has never been better.

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