how keep up with latest nv drivers?
Bruce Marshall
bmarsh at bmarsh.com
Thu Oct 9 23:59:23 UTC 2008
On Thursday 09 October 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> After years of ATi I switched to NVidia.
> I installed driver 173 with envy-ng from the 8.04 repository.
> Now - NVidia released a new driver version, I'd like to install it but envy
> doesn't list it.
> What are my options here?
> (running the installer from NVidia is not an option unless it got capable
> of building Ubuntu debs.. like ATi does... one of the few advantages on
> ATi)
All of the NV packages I have installed (from their website) are '.run'
packages. No .deb is needed.
Just make the package executable and execute it.
I've never installed an NV driver from the respositories.
Note: you may need the following statement in
your /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common file:
DISABLED_MODULES="nv"
to prevent the normal nv module from being loaded.
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