NVIDIA Graphics Card Installation

[David Duong]

Caleb Marcus wrote:
> 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)" 
You should try this script called "Envy".  It works great!! 

http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

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~ David Duong