ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 90

[Chris Rees]

> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:17:00 -0600
> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
> Subject: Re: Still having issues with an embedded nvidia 6100 card &
>        3d
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
>        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> David Fox wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> David Fox wrote:
>>>
>>>> Guys (and gals)
>>>>
>>>    Suggest you go to the nVidia web page and get their latest bash file
>>> for Ubuntu. You install that from the init 1 and it writes to the kernel
>>>
>>
>> I suppose I can try doing that, but since I have already installed the
>> 169.12 driver from aptitude, ran module-assistant (i.e., from ubuntu
>> packages) I don't just want to overwrite stuff and possibly break
>> something.
>>
>> Anyway, I just might try doing that.
>>
>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>
>>
>    Well the bash file writes all it's things and saves the old files as
> .back so you can save the old if the new doesn't work well.
>

That it may do, but I would strongly recommend uninstalling the 169.12
driver with aptitude FIRST, before you install this. Don't ever
manually install something over something installed from packages,
it's dangerous, and should aptitude try to upgrade the package in the
future, checksums etc will fail, with strange results.