NVIDIA drivers on ubuntu?

[Rick]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Friday 05 June 2009, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > I have never build a kernel or customized linux. I'm totally lost.
> >
> > Then Ubuntu is the wrong distro for you.  Ubuntu is fine as long as
> > you play by its rules.  Clearly your needs are not aligned with what
> > Ubuntu wants you to do.
>
> I disagree...   (of course)

Me, too.

>
>
> Although I used to build kernels right and left with SuSe and other
> distros, I
> have not found a need to do so with any *ubuntu.

According to the "instructions" I found during my search, the NVIDIA driver
needed the kernel sources. I guess I was a bit premature in assuming it need
to compile/build the kernel. Apparently that was not required with envy.

>
>
> I know Lonni doesn't like *Ubuntu distros.   So be it.

Apparently ;-)

~Rick
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