Which Nvidia driver to install?

[Ari Torhamo]

Hello,

A problem: I would like to install Nvidia graphics card drivers to my PC
and to two others, but I don't know which driver to use. There are two
different instructions in Wiki to do the installation and both suggest
to install a different driver.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/BinaryDriverHowto
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FinishInstallationHowto

The first one suggests to install the package nvidia-glx from one of the
preconfigured repositories. The second one suggests to download the file
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run from Nvidia's web page and install
it. Neither of the pages in any way seem to refer to the other and I
have no way to know which one to follow. Perhaps these pages should be
merged and/or more info be put in to allow users to do better choices?
Does either of these installation procedures some way give a better
result? Do I get a more fresh driver from Nvidia's download page? It
came to my mind too that maybe both of these methods do the same thing
and I would get an identical driver installation regardless which one of
the methods I choose.

Anyone awake? ...oh yes, it's not two o'clock in the night for everyone
on the list :-)

Ari