Installing nvidia driver from cmd line

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Alvin wrote:
> > 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
> 

If he can get to a real console session,   the use of envyng  -t   will do all 
of the nvidia install for him.    Works fine here.

(also works for ATI cards)