Installing nvidia driver from cmd line

[Alvin]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:13:28 Nigel Ridley wrote:
> A guy in work has tried to install 9.10 from the live CD.
> The install went OK but he can't log in as his nvidia card is not supported
> by the nv driver. He just gets dropped to a shell after X tries to start a
> few times.
> 
> What commands does he need to install the latest (or best) nvidia driver
> and enable it?

That should be:
$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-185

The installation will automatically enable it. I don't think you need to alter 
xorg.conf