Intrepid: which Nvidia Driver?

Mirto Silvio Busico mirtosilvio.busico at fastwebnet.it
Wed Feb 4 08:49:48 UTC 2009


Michael Krueger ha scritto:
> Mirto Silvio Busico schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm new to Kubuntu, coming from Debian, and trying to learn the 
>> kubuntu-way.
>>
>> My question: with kubuntu intrepid, which is the correct nvidia 
>> driver to install and what is the correct tool to use?
>>
>> In kde I used jokey-kde that lists only 2 driver: version 173 and 
>> version 177 that is "recommended" (this is the way I installed this 
>> driver)
>>
>> If I look at the packages (I use synaptic) I see that there is also a 
>> 180 version.
>>
>> I see also that there is an envy-qt package to install nvidia drivers.
>>
>> My framework:
>>    Acer Aspire 5930G
>>    Kubuntu 8.10 64 Bit
>>    graphic card: GeForce 9600M GT
>>
>> Thanks
>>    Mirto
> If you have the experimental repository enabled (for KDE 4.2) then the 
> following worked great for me:
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180
> So far I haven't seen any artefacts in the system tray with it. 
> Problems seem to have been solved.
Er... I'm a bit frightened using  experimental repository on my 
production machine.
Exactly, which experimental repository have I to enable (PPA, Jaunty, ...)?


Thanks
    Mirto




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