NVIDIA drivers on ubuntu?

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Lonni J Friedman<netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Not really. smxi is a complete, simple, practically bullet-proof
dist-upgrade script using apt-get or aptitude. If you got to the
nVidia section after a dist-upgrade that included a kernel upgrade,
reboot is required, otherwise no. The script is also for use in Debian
testing environment.

Reference http://smxi.org/ if curious.



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