Which Nvidia driver to install?

[Markus Kolb]

On 24.12.2004 01:09, Ari Torhamo schrieb:
> 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. 

You can use both.
I use the Nvidia package which is with Ubuntu and it is the easiest way 
to get 3D hardware acceleration.
You need the nvidia-glx and linux-restricted-modules packages.
The first is the driver for X and in the last package you find the 
nvidia kernel module.
If you want to have the newest drivers you can try the download from the 
site of nvidia.

Markus