nvidia driver for AMD64 distro

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:06:09PM -0400, Roy Liu wrote:

> First time posting to this list. :)
> 
> Trying to get this distro working on my system. I would consider my
> skill level as intermediate. Overall my impression of Ubuntu is quite
> favourable - I love how simple and uncluttered it is.
> 
> The main thing I'm running into problems with is installing the nVidia
> drivers. Has anyone had any luck getting them working? Once again, this
> is for the AMD64 distro - not the 32-bit one.

Precompiled packages for the amd64 build of these drivers were just recently
added to the archive.  Just run this command:

sudo aptitude install linux-amd64-generic

to get them.  If you've installed a different kernel since you installed the
system, use the corresponding package (linux-amd64-k8, linux-amd64-k8-smp,
linux-amd64-xeon).  Then follow the instructions in the wiki:

http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/BinaryDriverHowto

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 - mdz