08-09-2015, 09:52 PM
New to Linux so please reply in baby steps(lol).
I have an inspirion 1525 which I installed linux lite on.
I downloaded some movies mp4, avi etc... and they used to play fine but for some reason(I don't play movies a lot on my laptop) they stopped playing instead the video would never start playing(just a frozen blurred screen). The audio played fine, so I downloaded several players to make sure it was not the program( I have handbrake, brasero, smplayer) none of them worked.
I found a site to reinstall drivers so i did the following.
1) First, you need to open up a terminal shell. You can either start up your computer and go to a virtual shell
Ctrl+Alt+F1
or login and open up the gnome terminal
Ctrl+Alt+t
2) Then In the terminal, run the following commands:
This command will refresh your packages
sudo apt-get update
Then you will need to install the linux headers if those are not already installed.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
Next, you will need to do a dist-upgrade, which upgrade some packages of your system
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
When that is all done, you will need to reboot your system
sudo reboot
The Installation of the Drivers
1) Repeat step one to open the terminal.
Now install the Nvidia drivers
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
You have one more step, or else, you will have a high chance that you just soft-bricked your system. For safe measures, run this final command:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
*There was a well known bug that the Nvidia installation script did not run that command. If that config file is not created, your graphics will not work.
Now reboot your system:
sudo reboot
Congratulations! You should now be using Nvidia Drivers.
Now I can play videos but my desktop settings are only 600x800 and the video is too large for the players screen. any help would be appreciated.
Greg
I have an inspirion 1525 which I installed linux lite on.
I downloaded some movies mp4, avi etc... and they used to play fine but for some reason(I don't play movies a lot on my laptop) they stopped playing instead the video would never start playing(just a frozen blurred screen). The audio played fine, so I downloaded several players to make sure it was not the program( I have handbrake, brasero, smplayer) none of them worked.
I found a site to reinstall drivers so i did the following.
1) First, you need to open up a terminal shell. You can either start up your computer and go to a virtual shell
Ctrl+Alt+F1
or login and open up the gnome terminal
Ctrl+Alt+t
2) Then In the terminal, run the following commands:
This command will refresh your packages
sudo apt-get update
Then you will need to install the linux headers if those are not already installed.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
Next, you will need to do a dist-upgrade, which upgrade some packages of your system
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
When that is all done, you will need to reboot your system
sudo reboot
The Installation of the Drivers
1) Repeat step one to open the terminal.
Now install the Nvidia drivers
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
You have one more step, or else, you will have a high chance that you just soft-bricked your system. For safe measures, run this final command:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
*There was a well known bug that the Nvidia installation script did not run that command. If that config file is not created, your graphics will not work.
Now reboot your system:
sudo reboot
Congratulations! You should now be using Nvidia Drivers.
Now I can play videos but my desktop settings are only 600x800 and the video is too large for the players screen. any help would be appreciated.
Greg
Dell Inspiron 1525