Another extremely urgent nVidia driver testing request

[Carl Karsten]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi all,
> nVidia have released another version of their driver (1.0.7174) as an
> errata release to 1.0.7167 with very few changes.  We're hopefully
> going to pick this one up for Hoary, but as with 7167, it needs a fair
> bit of testing.  If anyone with an nVidia card could please add this
> to their sources list:
> deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/l-r-m/ i386/
> for i386 users, or:
> deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/l-r-m/ amd64/
> for amd64 users, and run a dist-upgrade (or 'Smart Upgrade'), reboot,

Added the source, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, 80mb of stuff, 
reboot, no nvidia splash screen - do I need something else?

Is there a shell command that will report if I am using the binary drivers?


Carl K