NVIDIA drivers on ubuntu?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 05 June 2009, Rick wrote:
> I have just installed ubuntu jaunty jackalope on my PC and can't get the
> NVIDIA drivers to load.
>
> I installed server, then added gnome-desktop. If I go into "add drivers"
> NVIDIA shows up. I click on install, and I get a text box showing the
> drivers were installed, but a reboot fails to load the GUI.
>
> I did some research and downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.14-pkg2.run
> and ran it.



Using the envy-ng  package did it for me....  NVidia works better than in 
Intrepid.

Once loaded up, use    envyng  -t    from a console line to run it.