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com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia This guide is for installing the NVIDIA closed source binary/restricted drivers on a system running an NVIDIA graphics card. For other graphics cards refer to the BinaryDriverHowto. The NVIDIA provided driver supports hardware-accelerated 3D, TV-Out support, and dual-head functions.
Driver Versions
There are the following restricted driver versions available in the repositories. You may install the nvidia-current package for the driver of the current version. 96.43.18 (driver is 96.43.19 in the proposed updates source in ubuntu 10.10 ) 173.14.28 185.18.36 195.36.24
To enable the latest version of binary driver in nvidia-current, please follow this link http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/how-to-install-nvidia-25635-display.html to upgrade using a PPA repository.
Installation
Recommended step before you install the NVIDIA driver for Ubuntu 10.10
Version 96.43.18 is broken ,Go to System->Administration->Software sources then go to the update's tab--tick proposed update sources--close & refesh. This link has more infomantion http://joeslifewithubuntu.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-nvidia-96-driver-with-ubuntu.html
Recommended step before you install the NVIDIA driver for Ubuntu 10.04 or higher
Nouveau, an open source driver, is installed by default. You can remove it by command-line by entering this:
sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
version recommended by the "Hardware Drivers" tool and all its dependencies. Go to Hardware Drivers tool and activate the driver you just installed. Once downloaded & installed, reboot your computer. In 10.04, running sudo nvidia-xconfig on the command-line may be necessary before the driver module will function. The Hardware Drivers tool may not work properly on machines that have previously used third party tools like 'Envy' or manual installation to install previous drivers. You should remove those drivers before attempting to install using the built-in tool.
Common Issues
Boot up splash screen issues for users of Ubuntu 10.04 & higher
Open up a Ternimal and install the Startup-Manager
sudo apt-get install startupmanager
Launch the Startup Manager from "System>-Administration->Startup-Manager" In the "Boot options" tab, change the resolution to something your monitor can handle (1024x768 is usually enough for the boot screen to look nice). Change the color depth to "24 bits" and Press the "Close" button.Followed by a reboot to check that it is fixed.
Work round two: Use the Monitors preferences (System->Preferences->Monitors) Work round three: Right click on your menu Choose edit menus Find System->Administration->NVIDIA X Server Settings Click on properties Change the command to gksudo /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
Suspend/Hibernation
If you have an old legacy NVIDIA card (eg driver 96.43.19), hibernation & suspend will not work. To fix it see NvidiaLaptopBinaryDriverSuspend.
actually reported by your monitor) in gnome-display-properties/xrandr, you are probably seeing the effects of the DynamicTwinView feature. See this launchpad bug about being unable to "set" a proper screen refresh rate for details of this behaviour.
See Also
NvidiaManual - Guide to installing the official NVIDIA driver from the NVIDIA website on Ubuntu. Explains the drawbacks and benefits of manual installation and how to safely avoid conflicts with the Ubuntu provided NVIDIA binary drivers. NvidiaMultiMonitors The Ubuntu Forums NvidiaOnSonyLaptop BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia/Nouveau - The Nouveau driver, this tells you how to install it from Ubuntu 9.10 . NVIDIA Linux web forum - The the NVIDIA Linux web forum. currently open NVIDIA binary driver bugs in launchpad - open bugs http://eddieringle.com/how-to-install-official-nvidia-drivers-in-linux/ http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html