Re: Switching to NVIDIA

[Paul Cartwright <debian@pcartwright.com>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:43:23 -0500
Paul Cartwright <debian@pcartwright.com> wrote:

  

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón<noelamac@gmail.com>  wrote:


After I posted to the list I found
http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html

   
      

from a text-based terminal ( CTRL-ALT-F1), you run:
# sgfxi -c

and it runs & pulls in the headers for you & installs the latest NVIDIA 
driver from NVIDIA.
    

   And what is sgfxi ?

  

http://smxi.org/site/about.htm#sgfxi

What is sgfxi (simple graphics installer - s gfx i)

The primary purpose of sgfxi is to install non-free graphics drivers. It also supports removing non-free graphics drivers and replacing them with the free version. To do this it cleans out the system of any previous drivers, then installs the latest versions of the driver you have requested.

Support for Ubuntu and Arch Linux has been added to sgfxi, so now it should work in most areas in Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch.

-- 
Paul Cartwright