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How to install Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Feisty or later versions

Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2008 Email This Post Email This Post

If you want to install Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Feisty and above versions is very easy to install.Ubuntu doesn’t include Nvidia drivers in a default installation for a number of reasons.

First you need to make sure you have nvidia disply card go to System—> Administration— > Restricted Drivers Manager

Now you should see similar to the following screen here you need to Check the box to enable the drivers

Enable Nvidia drivers popup here you need to select Enable Driver

Downloading the nvidia drivers in progress

Installing the software in progress

Nvidia Drivers installation completed.Now you need to reboot your machine to start using your nvidia drivers.

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3 Responses to “How to install Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Feisty or later versions”

  1. Mark Says:

    Yeah, that’s great for n00bs (I was one). The driver that the repositories call “glx-new” are not new. The newest nVIDIA Linux driver is 169.09 which you won’t see for another year from the repositories, I’m sure. Idiotic Imp? Jolly Juxtaposition? Klever Klump? Merry Marigold? Where do they get the names for the releases, anyway? All you have to do is download the newest driver from nVIDIA’s website, press Ctrl+Alt+F1, stop Gnome/KDE/Xfce, install the driver, start Gnome/KDE/Xfce, and you’re done. Badda-bing, badda boom. Just watch the Update Manager and don’t install a kernel update. Don’t worry, Hardy Heron is on it’s way.

  2. Jo-Erlend Schinstad Says:

    The next version after Hardy Heron will be called Intrepid Ibex, and will be released in October. The names are Adjective Animal. That should’ve been the codename for the first release! Mark Shuttleworth chooses the names, and I think they’ve been descriptive and unique. That’s marketing.

  3. Ratnesh Says:

    When i click on enable driver nothing happens & dialog box just closes. Any help????????

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