Lärs Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 (edited) Ok, like I've stated once before, I'm using the 6111 drivers. Now there must have been some tremendous efforts on NVidia's part when adding all these new drivers. I'm looking to update my drivers to 7167 or 7174, IA32. The thing is, I do not know how to approach this. What I'm saying is, I don't want to fool around aimlessly and screw up my Linux once again. Call me a coward :D , but I have my drivers configured just the right way. I just want to be able to uninstall the old drivers and install more recent ones. I was also thinking about getting a new video card. If you think you can advise me here, I'd appreciate it. I'm looking for something at a decent price that would run Neverwinter Nights at a smoother framerate :P . I have an NVidia TNT2 Model 64, and I was wondering possibly if, after I installed the new drivers, I would swap out the old TNT2 for a new one. Would this screw up my configuration? If someone has experience, please let me know. Thank you. Edited April 13, 2005 by Lärs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Feel free to follow the nvidia documentation: o Auto-Updating: If you run: nvidia-installer --latest the utility will connect to NVIDIA's FTP site, and report the latest driver version and the url to the latest driver file. If you run: nvidia-installer --update the utility will connect to NVIDIA's FTP site, download the most recent driver file, and install it. If you lost the nvidia-installer file: After you have downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run, run: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run --extract-only This will create the directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1 which contains the uncompressed contents of the .run file but do not run 'nvidia-installer'. CAUTION!!! Begin installation by exiting X - as root, run: service dm stop - by killing the processes (kill, killall, ... => gdm, mdkdm, ... & X) => pressing CTRL-ALT-F7 must show you a black screen in fact, ps -e, pstree or top must not show you a "X" process. Conclusion: - su'ing (root) - service dm stop - nvidia-installer --update Enjoy, Theo (sorry for my crappy English). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lärs Posted April 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 (edited) It sounds easy, thank you. By the way, your English isn't so bad. You seem to be more than capable speaking English. Welcome to the board, theo . Edited April 13, 2005 by Lärs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 It sounds easy, thank you. By the way, your English isn't so bad. You seem to be more than capable speaking English.Welcome to the board, theo . <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah yes, 't is true: welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Thank you Lärs, thank you Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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