Comments on: How To: Install Nvidia 64-Bit Linux Driver on Ubuntu – Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 Beta

By: jason

jason — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:33:29 +0000

Thanks i have been looking everywhere on how to get the nvidia settings to stay from one session to next great job thanks!

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:17:34 +0000

Note: If you have the restricted NVIDIA driver installed, be sure to uninstall it before attempting to install the new driver.
Otherwise installed no problem in 9.04.
Thanks Josh!

By: josh

josh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:00:37 +0000

Glad it helped you out!
Thanks for taking the time to comment..

By: Glen

Glen — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:34:14 +0000

I was having issues with compiz killing my drivers till i did this, THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to make this

PROPS SIR

By: josh

josh — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:36:40 +0000

@Michael B. Trausch

true.. you have a valid point my man. I guess maybe its more just me like hacking / breaking / making things difficult? LOL Prob best to just use the restricted driver manager..

By: Michael B. Trausch

Michael B. Trausch — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:12:54 +0000

Right, but I am still confused… 180.44 is already in Jaunty…

That said, just take care when you upgrade. Swapping things out from underneath apt can bork the next dist-upgrade you do. But I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone else.

It’s not all that great anyway. It’s the best 3D driver I am aware of for Linux… but man am I getting sick and tired of filing bug reports because my system crashes with strange NVIDIA Xid errors in the system logs…

By: josh

josh — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:23:43 +0000

Well, when it comes to gaming, I need bleeding edge.. Nvidia makes the drivers, so why not get it early rather than wait until it finally trickles into the repos.. ?

By: Michael B. Trausch

Michael B. Trausch — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:50:30 +0000

… I am confused.

Why? Is there something wrong with the binary 180.44 driver in Jaunty? Usually, installing NVIDIA’s binary run package will also change things out from underneath the package manager, which may make future upgrades a bit difficult. Apt doesn’t really like to overwrite files that it knows it didn’t put there…

By: BobCFC

BobCFC — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:29:43 +0000

To be totally noob proof you might want to mention that you need the c compiler package (build-essential) installed to build the module

ie:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

PS good point about gksudo at the end most ppl forget