how do I move my drivers from archive manager to someplace were the video card can recognize it?

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Jon Anderson <jbander at izoom.net> wrote:
> No jockey wont help instal my matrox g400 drivers because I can't use my
> update drivers program because when I put my Matrox g400 in my puter nothing
> comes on the screen(it's black) Need the drivers for Matrox, the third party
> ones don't work . i want to load the drivers from my archive manager(were
> they are) to my software center , or upgrade manager or synaptic. Then I can
> load them when I'm using my NVIDIA video card then switch to my Matrox g400


I took a look at the readme.txt of the binary tar.gz (not the source),
and I think you are supposed to run install.sh.

You can't make any piece of software appear in Software Center,
Synaptic, etc, unless you create a .deb package, which isn't a trivial
thing to do.



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