getting nvidia display drivers

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 00:02 +0300, Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:

> thanks ric, i did more search through the repos, and passed by
> nvidia-glx-177, which was what i wanted. i know about nvidia's official
> driver, but it crashed my hardy install few months ago, so now i have a
> phobia from this scary file still sitting in my home directory :P
> 
> to install the driver from text mode, click ctrl-alt-f1, this will put
> you in tty1, login, and type "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop", this will shut
> down kde. and then run the driver package, but be careful with it
> though. after you're done, restart using "sudo shutdown -r now"

Thanks! I'm used to the RedHat init statement to really shut down X with
an "init 3". I noticed there is no "inittab" in /etc with Kubuntu too. I
installed the bin file using a terminal and X went ape. Using Envy there
was nary a burp in the barrel and my framerate as reported by GLXgears
went up 50%. It worked for me beautifully. So, that is what I'd suggest.
YMMV, Ric

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