how to install "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40.run" driver

AceVentura · 04-15-2012, 11:14 AM

can someone help me to install this driver for my Nvidia video card. I was reading a post about a security vulnerability in the Nvidia driver.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=178006

I downloaded the latest driver here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-d...40-driver.html (295.40) which has closed the vulnerability , but I don't know how to install the .run file.

273 · 04-15-2012, 02:18 PM

Assuming you're currently running the driver from the Ubuntu repositories then, unless you're convinced you'll be targeted with an attack, you're probably better off waiting for the update to be packaged and update it in the normal way.
If you don't want to do that there are many tutorials for installing the NVIDIA driver on the web, but doi g it that way will mean you have to rebuild the driver manually every time your kernel updates.
Edit: I just checked my system, which is running Debian Sid, and my NVIDIA driver is 295.40 so I'm OK. Also, since Sid packages are likely to end up in Ubuntu I suspect you may have a driver which isn't vulnerable anyhow. You can double check this by running nvidia-settings.

John VV · 04-16-2012, 12:11 AM

read the instructions on the ubuntu web site
-- first ---
install the kernel source and gcc and autotools

1) boot into TEXT only mode ( x NOT running)
for ubuntu that is , i think 1 .
2)
log in as root into the terminal ONLY boot
3)
cd to the location you put the *.run ( i put it on / )
4)
run it

Code:

cd / 
----- or ------
cd To/The/Location/You/Put/It 
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40.run
--- fallow the on screen instructions  ----
reboot

cascade9 · 04-16-2012, 12:27 AM

Its a lot easier to use the xorg-edgers PPA than it is to manually install the nVidia driver.

Directions for how to add the PPA and some other basic stuff here-

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/xorg-edgers

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273

Edit: I just checked my system, which is running Debian Sid, and my NVIDIA driver is 295.40 so I'm OK.

Been up for a few days at least.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273

Also, since Sid packages are likely to end up in Ubuntu I suspect you may have a driver which isn't vulnerable anyhow. You can double check this by running nvidia-settings.

Once ubuntu versions come out, its pretty rare for them to get a new package. Most of the time they just get security updates. Ubuntu will probably just apply the patch.

AceVentura · 04-16-2012, 06:27 AM

thanks guys , I got it. Asked on another forum and another member suggested I try checking the synaptic package manager and it was there already so I just had to mark it for installation and it did the rest itself.

cascade9 · 04-17-2012, 04:15 AM

Then you must be running 12.04 beta. The other versions do not have 295.40 drivers.

This is why you should list your distro and version when you ask questions like this. Especially if you are running a ubuntu beta...

273 · 04-17-2012, 04:18 AM

If the package was already there I'm surprised update didn't take care of it.
I noticed apost on here advising to add a PPA with the new driver, think it was a link from LXer.