Intrepid: which Nvidia Driver?

Girard Henri girardhenri at free.fr
Wed Feb 4 08:50:36 UTC 2009


nvidia 7900 
drivers on intrepid 177
drivers on jaunty 180
works fine :)
Le mercredi 04 février 2009 à 09:29 +0100, Michael Krueger a écrit :
> Mirto Silvio Busico schrieb: 
> > Hi all, 
> > I'm new to Kubuntu, coming from Debian, and trying to learn the
> > kubuntu-way. 
> > 
> > My question: with kubuntu intrepid, which is the correct nvidia
> > driver to install and what is the correct tool to use? 
> > 
> > In kde I used jokey-kde that lists only 2 driver: version 173 and
> > version 177 that is "recommended" (this is the way I installed this
> > driver) 
> > 
> > If I look at the packages (I use synaptic) I see that there is also
> > a 180 version. 
> > 
> > I see also that there is an envy-qt package to install nvidia
> > drivers. 
> > 
> > My framework: 
> >    Acer Aspire 5930G 
> >    Kubuntu 8.10 64 Bit 
> >    graphic card: GeForce 9600M GT 
> > 
> > Thanks 
> >    Mirto 
> If you have the experimental repository enabled (for KDE 4.2) then the
> following worked great for me:
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180
> So far I haven't seen any artefacts in the system tray with it.
> Problems seem to have been solved.





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