How to install Beta Graphics Driver (NVIDIA)

The nVidia driver has been split into different branches; latest and new legacy. See http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-a.html

• to find out which driver you should be using. Latest=97xx / New Legacy=96xx
  

        sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

• Add ONE of the following lines based on your architecture

        deb http://www.albertomilone.com/drivers/edgy/latest/32bit binary/
       deb http://www.albertomilone.com/drivers/edgy/latest/64bit binary/

        deb http://www.albertomilone.com/drivers/edgy/newlegacy/32bit binary/
       deb http://www.albertomilone.com/drivers/edgy/newlegacy/64bit binary/

• Save the edited file

• Add the GPG key

        wget http://albertomilone.com/drivers/tseliot.asc
       gpg --import tseliot.asc
       gpg --export --armor albertomilone@alice.it | sudo apt-key add -

• Update and install

       sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
      sudo apt-get upgrade

• The upgrade should update your linux-restricted-modules & linux-restricted-modules-common packages.

       sudo nvidia-xconfig

• Add a menu option for nVidia Settings

       sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/NVIDIA-Settings.desktop

• Insert these lines in the new file and save

       [Desktop Entry]
      Name=NVIDIA Settings
      Comment=NVIDIA Settings
      Exec=nvidia-settings
      Icon=
      Terminal=false
      Type=Application
      Categories=Application;System;

• Restart the computer and your new drivers should be installed.

• Test the install with these 2 programs

       glxinfo
      glxgears

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How to install Graphics Driver (NVIDIA)

          sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
         sudo nvidia-xconfig

• Should the above not enable the new driver, you can enable it manually by opening the X config file:

          sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

• and replacing "nv" with "nvidia"

• Read #How to restart GNOME without rebooting computer

• Enable XvMC by creating the nVidia XvMC configuration file

          sudo gedit /etc/X11/XvMCConfig

• Insert the following line into the new configuration file, to tell the players the name of the nVidia XvMC shared library:

          libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1

• To use XvMC to accelerate video playback, use the following flags. See [[1]] for more details.

          xine -V xxmc filename.ts
         mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc filename.ts

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