NVIDIA Graphics Card Installation

[Caleb Marcus]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:24 +0600, Angel wrote:

> Caleb Marcus wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:01 +0600, Angel wrote:
> >> How ill install my *NVIDIA Graphics Accelerator Port*?I got the NVIDIA
> >> driver from the driver CD.Its a .run
> >> file."*NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run*".All i know,the .run file is
> >> a self-extracting archive.Now,how ill extract the file?Archive Manager
> >> cant extract the file.My graphics cards *NVIDIA GeForce Fx 5200*
> >> models,128 MB video memory.Hope now,some one can help me.
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> > The correct way to install the nVidia driver is to go to 
> > System>Administration>Restricted Drivers Manager. It'll automatically 
> > download and install the correct version of the driver. Do not use the 
> > version downloaded from the site. 
> i tried to installed the driver from *System>Administration>Restricted 
> Drivers Manager*.but it says "The software source for the package 
> nvidia-glx-new is not enabled".now wat to do?
> 

Go to System>Administration>Software Sources and check off "Proprietary
drivers for devices (restricted)"
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