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Nvidia drivers
I'm trying to install my Nvidia drivers, and I know there is a different process when you're using a dual-core cpu. I'm using an AMD Athlon 64x2. Any help would be appreciated.
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Well, first of all, some distros can install nvidia-drivers with a packagemanager. That is very distro-spesific, so there isn't a universal howto there.
Anyways, this is how I do with slackware. If you are going to use 64bit driver or 32bit doesn't depend on the cpu, but if your using a x86_64 OS or regular x86. Eitherway http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and download your preferred choice (32/64bit). Put it somewhere nice, and log off and shutdown you X. If you have trouble to exit the kdm/gdm or any other graphics the howto i think says to change to runlevel 1. I never do this. Log in (With console, not graphicly) as root, and cd to the directory where you downloaded your file. Simply do: sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2.run (64bits) or sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run (32bits) The installer will do the rest. It will update your configfiles to use the nvidiadriver as well. If you didn't shut down gdm/kdm/xdm, restart it by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace Remember to take a backup of /etc/X11/xorg.conf This is really important incase things screw up. Edit: You might have to chmod +x your_nvidia_driver_here to make it executable. |
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