Comments on: Install Nvidia Graphics Drivers with .Run file in Ubuntu Linux

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:34:03 +0000

Thanks, it saved my day!

Some notes:
* if you don’t know your video card’s exact model then goto command line and type: lspci
* find the right driver for YOUR videocard. And it’s NOT allways the newest. From nVidias website (http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html) just select the different versions and on each page look under tab “SUPPORTED PRODUCTS”. If you find your video card, you have found your correct driver.
* if you use Kubuntu/KDE instead of Ubuntu/Gnome just use kdm instead of gdm on the commands.

Have fun.

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Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:48:09 +0000

[...] In case of NVidia cards, install the latest driver as showin in this post [...]

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:59:21 +0000

Thanks you guys!
I got them fixed.

By: Jcat

Jcat — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:07:38 +0000

Thanks for making this guide to update the nvidia driver.

Also note in step 1, the ‘etc’ directory needs replace the ‘ect’ typo, and step 6 with the extra space as the user above mentioned.

By: Unix

Unix — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:12:48 +0000

You need to remove the space here:

sudo rm -r -f
/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/kernel /drivers/video/nvidia

if you cut and paste, you will remove all files in the kernel directory!