I have newly installed Kubuntu Fiesty in my system. now i want to install propreitary nvidia drivers from nvidia website because other nvidia drivers are giving very low fps compared to the propreitary drivers. i'm getting around 30-40 fps with nvidia-glx-new from ubuntu drivers repository. but in fedora and slackware the propreitary drivers gave more than double the current fps, i have already tried installing nvidia drivers and during my previous installation of ubuntu and messed up ending with xorg failiure. i don't want to end up the same again, is there any way to safely compile and install the latest nvidia drivers from nvidia website.

my system configuration is

Intel Pentium-4, 2.8Ghz, 800 FSB
Intel D915GAV MB
1024MB+256MB DDR 400 Ram
XFX Nvidia Gforce 7600GT 256MB, Pci-e graphics card
Pinncale PCTV Stereo pci tuner card
160GB SATA Seagate HDD (windows)
40GB SATA Samsung HDD (linux)
LG DVD R/W SATA Drive
LG CD R/W IDE Drive

Download the install script, execute it, and answer the questions. It's the simplest and safest way to install the nVidia driver.What does that mean, "xorg failure?" If you told us what the problems were that you had, we may be able to suggest some ways of preventing the same problems on this attempt. Otherwise, just execute the install script from nVidia.

Ubuntu sometimes leaves a few files scattered around that mess up the NVIDIA driver's installation.
See my post here for specifics:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...87#post2923687

i installed the drivers from nvidia website and xserver fails to start,
i gives error message "failed to load nvidia kernel modules, nvidia modules reports its version 100.14.19 but it does not match the vernel version. this never had happened with slackware or fedora.

What is the version of your kernel headers?
What is your running kernel?
Have you downloaded the correct driver for your videocard?
Did you follow the steps I outlined in the link in post #3?

Is the driver you are looking for number 23? That is, 100.14.23? Is that the one that does not match with the 19 on your system? If so, then go here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...100.14.23.html

and download the new driver. That, if I recall correctly, is how I fixed that problem.

If you still have issues, download and run envy (http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html). I am recommending it because it fixed my problem with the nVidia driver when nothing else did. Hopefully, it will help you, as well.