NVIDIA drivers on ubuntu?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Collins Richey<crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Lonni J Friedman<netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny how its only the Ubuntu users who seem to be having these problems.
>
> Although I haven't had major troubles with *buntu, I have to agree
> that the nVidia handling is suboptimal. On sidux, all I have to do is
> run the smxi script (not developed by sidux), and it does the right
> thing in the right order and eventually downloads (if new stable
> available) and invokes the standard nVidia run package, reboot if
> needed, and viola it works. Never a problem unless the latest kernel
> package has done something creepy (once in 2 years).

I don't know what smxi is doing, but if it claims you need to reboot
just to install the NVIDIA display driver, then its doing something
very wrong.



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