Kubuntu 12.10 Nvidia drivers

Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubuntu at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 09:25:01 UTC 2012


Further to my earlier email about not being able to enable the Nvidia drivers, 
here is what jockey-text reports for a machine running 12.10 and one running 
12.04:

12.10
kmod:nvidia_experimental_304 - Experimental NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel 
module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_current - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU 
library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_current_updates - nvidia_current_updates (Proprietary, Enabled, 
Not in use)

12.04
xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, 
Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_current_updates - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release 
updates) (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
xorg:nvidia_experimental_304 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver 
(**experimental** beta) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_experimental_310 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver 
(**experimental** beta) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)

I have tried running sudo jockey-kde -e kmod:nvidia_current_updates, but the 
status doesn't change.





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