Drew Einhorn - Natty nVidia

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 15:22 -0600, Roy Strachan wrote:

> The latest driver for GeForce on nVidia's site is 275.09.07.  Have you
> tried it?  

The drive file straight from nVidia plays merry hell with an Ubuntu
install as it uses it's own directory scheme of things, like where to
write the lib files. I agree that the repo lags behind, but using the
nVidia supplied version can become a liability at times. Old crufty
experienced users can get by with it. Newbies may have problems and end
up in tears. 

With Fedora I had to use the nVidia .run file, but there was no other
Fedora supplied nVidia driver in the way. Jockey has worked for me
always, but there has been times I had to apply it more than once,
before it would announce that the driver was loaded and running. There
has been more than one occasion when I had to make additional links, by
hand, for the libGL libraries, with the nVidia version, so I wouldn't
use that route unless it was the ~last ditch~ effort to resolve a
problem. Anything short of that, I'd stick with the repos until any
other possibility has been exhausted. The OP hasn't reported back, that
I recall, what the result was from using the nVidia setup app. Ric



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