[mythtvnz] Upgrade NVIDIA 180.11 to 180.45

[James Booth]

Yes. I suggest you use the installer from the nVidia site and if you then have 
problems getting it to work follow JYA's advice - worked for me.

On Monday 13 April 2009 12:55:10 Tortise wrote:
> 8-10
> Update Manager does not seem to hook into the later 180.x series for me.
> Is JVA's post of Sunday, 5 April 2009 9:29 a.m. the one you refer to, where
> he says:
>
> Did you use the nvidia installer or a package?
>
> If the first ; kill X with sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
> run the nvidia installer to uninstall.
>
> then type sudo rmmod nvidia to unload the nvidia driver
>
> remove all nvidia.ko files that could still be in your /lib/modules/`uname
> -r` with something like:
> find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -exec sudo rm -f {} \; -print
>
> Then re-run the nvidia installer.
> Once done, type
> modprobe nvidia
> check in the system log that the correct module version is installed
> and restart X:
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
>
> I guess, to answer the first question, mythuntu uses the NVIDIA installer?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Booth
> To: mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
> Cc: Tortise
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Upgrade NVIDIA 180.11 to 180.45
>
>
> Which version of Mythbuntu are you using? I recently manually upgraded to
> 180.44 (See previous post with help from JYA), and then subsequently the
> updater infomred me that 180.44 was availble in the repository and I re-did
> the install using the updater.
>
> On Monday 13 April 2009 12:13:10 Tortise wrote:
> > I am looking to upgrade to the latest stable driver, Mythbuntu recently
> > gave me a system tray icon suggesting upgrade from 177 to 180, which I
> > duly did, it seems it installed 180.11. Checking for updates says the
> > system is up to date. (!) This is for an AGP 7600GS.
> >
> > Is the upgrade procedure detailed here
> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.44.html the
> > appropriate one to use for mythbuntu?
> >
> > In advance thank you.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > David
>
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