How do I compile a drive in Ubuntu Linux?

UBUNTU GRAPHICS DRIVERS

NVIDIA

How to install Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu. This tutorial applies to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on later releases the installer is slightly different in appearance (select recommended Driver)

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nvidia

ATI

Radeon

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

RadeonXpress

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonXpress

INTEL

HowTo Fix Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) Intel Graphics Problem

http://www.ivankristianto.com/2009/06/howto-fix-ub...

INSTALLING SOFTWARE ON UBUNTU

Installing Software in Ubuntu

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftwar...

UBUNTU USER GUIDE

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) User Guide

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Jaunty

CURRENT SESSION

Linux Mint 6 ext3 with Compiz 0.7.2

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=31

http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/

LUg.

Oh joy. The first thing you have to understand is that in order to compile the driver for your video card you have to download and install the source code and headers for your kernel? Do you have them? They should install (through Synaptic) to /usr/src/linux or some such (I'm currently writing this on Slackware which is to Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Knoppix as apples are to tangerines). Fine, if you have them, open a terminal, cd to the directory where your source code is, and after reading the README and INSTALL instructions look around for a file called configure. In the terminal it should be green -- which means it is executable. If it is then just type ./configure (the first two characters, the period and slash called dot-slash tell the shell to look in the current directory for the program to execute). It should create a file called Makefile or makefile, with no extension which is what you are looking for. If there is no configure file then type make config and see what happens. If there is one but it is not green, then you are likely to get a "file not found" when you type ./configure so type sh configure (no dot-slash) instead. sh will execute it.

Then just type make, which should start it (if it crashes you did not install the kernel headers properly or install the proper headers). Then type sudo make install.

I got interested in Linux through my programming classes in college and frankly I have RUINED several installations by not reading the README and INSTALL files and following their instructions to the letter whether they make sense to me or not. I would learn how to program. Take a class if you can.

If you could tell us which video card you are trying to get working it would help us to solve your problem. Is it a nvidia or ati card? Why did you decide to install the driver this way and not use the ubuntu menu: main menu >System > Hardware Drivers Manager?

There are several ways to "compile" a driver and we would have to see the files involved.

Have you read the files in the uncompressed folder that end in .txt; like README and help?

Here is a general tutorial for installing graphics cards in ubuntu.

Good luck

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