Tuesday 14 August 2012

Updating NVIDIA Drivers

Downloading and installing the NVIDIA binary blobs (or drivers as they're known) from the website is an absolute nightmare for Linux. It usually involves killing the xserver and ensuring that you have the right kernel modules matching up.

Anyway, there is a simple way of keeping your NVIDIA display driver up to date by adding the following ppa to your repositories:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current 
  

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