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nVidia Driver
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:58 pm
by manuleka
Platform:
G620
Geforce GTX 460 1GB
640GB HDD
LinuxMint 13 KDE
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Now i'm wondering if it's gonna help with gaming on Linux (Trine 2, Xonotic, Heroes of Newerth) to download latest driver from nVidia and install that?
Also would i need to reinstall this proprietary driver everytime there's an update to the kernel? If so, is there a way of adding this to the repository?
cheers for any advice - i'm a noob still hehe
Re: nVidia Driver
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:20 pm
by DrHu
Someone made a script to handle the nvidia module build to the installed kernel routine
--the biggest problem is being out of the GUJI (no x-server running) when installing the nvidia driver, other than that a simple nvidia*.run file executed builds against the kernel and it is good to go, after killing nouveau of course
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=835573
Re: nVidia Driver
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:21 pm
by DrHu
Someone made a script to handle the nvidia module build to the installed kernel routine
--the biggest problem is being out of the GUJI (no x-server running) when installing the nvidia driver, other than that a simple nvidia*.run file executed builds against the kernel and it is good to go, after killing nouveau of course
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=835573
Re: nVidia Driver
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:00 pm
by water spirit
The latest driver available from nvidia is 304.37. See here
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
I have that version installed by enabling this ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates.
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/ubuntu-x-swat#.
I just do this
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
Then use Jockey, menu>applications>System>Addional Drivers and select the current driver.
Or if you have an older nvidia driver already installed run the Update Manager and the latest driver will be available or
and the latest driver will be available.
No problems with future updates or kernels.