NVidia in Warty-Hoary

Keith Powell keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk
Sun Feb 13 12:52:37 UTC 2005


Maximilian Gerlach wrote:
>>Please, how is the NVIDIA driver installed in a Hoary upgrade?
> 
> The same way it is installed in warty - by installing the
> restricted-modules kernel package and editing the X11 config file.
> 
> Try loading the nvidia module if it isn't already (sudo modprobe nvidia)
> and edit (as root) the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to use the nvidia instead
> of the nv driver.
> 
> Maxi


Thanks, Maxi, it's worked.

I didn't have to edit the XF86config file in Warty. The NVIDIA driver 
installed without needing to.

Cheers

Keith






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