testing new Nvidia drivers (newbie question)

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:55:36PM +0100, spamse wrote:
> I have been following the thread about testing the new 7167 Nvidia
> drivers. I was curious about what was meant in the starting post
> saying "..pick this up for hoary...". Does this mean that instead of
> having to use the Nvidia application to compile a new kernel interface
> with every kernel update, Synaptic/apt-get can perform the appropriate
> updates?

Yes, if you are using the Ubuntu kernels.

> I was attempting to get the 6629 drivers to work with Hoary and my old
> Riva TNT a while back, but gave up due to incompatibility with the
> older cards, and I was also concerned about the idea of having to
> manually update all the time. Am currently using the default nv
> driver.

The entire linux-restricted-modules package is there to provide these
sorts of pre-compiled modules for your kernel, assuming you are using
a standard Ubuntu kernel.

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