how to apply nvidia settings from the command line?

[Andrew Farris]

On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 20:21 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 17:42 +0200, Mario Guenterberg wrote:
> > Hm, what version of nvidia driver have you installed. My is
> > 185.18.14 - not the Ubuntu shipped one.
> 
> I'm using the one shipped with Ubuntu 9.04 - 180.44. My graphics
> subsystem is NVidia GeForce 9600M GS with 512Mb.
> 
> How do I go about locating and installing the later driver?
> 
> Regards, K.
> 

For that, you would have to go to nvidia's website, and download the
driver directly from them.

be careful when doing so, and make sure you know very well how to undo
what you're doing, in case it doesn't work right.  I once tried to get
newer drivers for my ATI card direct from the official website... left
me without a GUI for a few hours because I failed to read the fine print
on their website (which stated that their drivers weren't compiled with
support for the newest version of X, which was included in ubuntu 9.04).
My fault, sure, but nevertheless, you've been warned :)


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Andrew
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