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manually installing nvidia 180.08 drivers

Asked by Buddrick

How do you install the nvidia 180.08 drivers manually. I've read the nvidia readme and downloaded the package but don't trust myself to do correctly as it has to be done completely in the terminal and it also mentions closing down the X Server while installing it. I don't want to install and have something go wrong because it would be difficult to fix and would rather just get it right the first time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Best André (afsverissimo) said : 		#1

the best solution is to wait for the ubuntu release or for Envy to have it, if you're really determined to have it then do the following

download the drivers to a known location (ex. home)

press Ctrl + Alt + F2 to access tty2 and login

stop the X server witdh:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
(if you use kde the replace gdm with kdm)

if X is still running then do: (not very pretty)

$ sudo killall Xorg

then install the new drivers with:

$ sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.08-pkg1.run
(follow instructions)

to start X again:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

and that's all

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Buddrick (buddrick999) said : 		#2

Thanks averissimo, that solved my question.