Installing Nvidia Drivers in linux

[praka123]

anyways in one way or other there needs to use CLI in Linux be it Ubuntu or what.and CLI (bash shell) aint that tough as with ms-dos one.be ready to face it .i dint tried envy yet.but manual optimizations for nvidia and ati drivers are better(see the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf ).even there is nvidia-xconfig,nvidia-settings etc packages available.nvidia-xconfig generates ur /etc/X11/xorg.conf line.

 

[vish786]

I have nvidia 5700LE. First Ticked Check Mark in the Restricted Driver manager and restarted but nothing happened. Then I used synaptic to install driver. It installed fine but i could not enable desktop effect. Don't remember the error msg. When I checked xorg.conf the driver was still "nv" instead of "nvidia". So i Changed to "nvidia", restarted and as usual desktop manager crashed. So I had to change it to "nv" form CLI to get GDM. Then I downloaded binary package from nVidia site and installed it but same story. Finally I installed using Envy script and Everything worked without any hitch.

Envy script ?? How to use it... and what is it?

 

[QwertyManiac]

Envy:
*www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html