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Installing/Updating NVIDIA Linux drivers (X.org)

Posted by haytham - 03/06/06 at 07:06:33 am

Alright, so let’s say you want to install/update the latest NVIDIA drivers for your Linux machine, you downloaded the drivers from www.nvidia.com, ran the NVIDIA-Linux-(arch)-versionnb.run script but X still doesn’t want to boot, you probably missed few steps.

1. Download the NVIDIA Linux drivers from www.nvidia.com
2. chmod +x
3. if its a fresh install skip to step: 5
4. Unload module “nvidia” using rmmod or modconf (debian)
5. Kill your X server, i usualy do a /etc/init.d/gdm stop
6. Run the driver installation script and follow the instructions
7. Depending on your distro, everything should work normaly, on Debian i had to create symlinks from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/nvidia_drv* to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
8. You might as well want to enable glx, for that create symlinks from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/* to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extention/
9. Load the module “nvidia” using modprobe or modconf
10. Change your /etc/X11/xorg.conf using “nvidia” in the Driver variable of the Section “Device”
11. Restart X, i use /etc/init.d/gdm start
12. Enjoy !!

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