nvidia 295.xx for Ubuntu 12.10

[Majki-Fajki]

Does anyone has working deb drivers for nvidia cards for 12.10 from 295.xx family? I literally searched whole internet by now.


N00bslab has apparantly created debs
http://www.noobslab.com/2012/06/nvid...ction-for.html
but they need xorg-video-abi which is not in 12.10 repo.

Ideas?

[whatthefunk]

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/beta-legacy

You dont need a .deb file. Just download the drivers from Nvidia, kill your X server, and run the script from the command line. Beware that you may break your system.

[Majki-Fajki]

But I will still have to reinstall nvidia each time kernel update, right?

[Frogs Hair]

The date of that post concerns me a bit. That site has listed items as being compatible with versions of which they are not. I have found this to be true with their theme ppas. Since it's a deb. package the most that can happen is that the dependencies won't be found and it won't install.

[whatthefunk]

But I will still have to reinstall nvidia each time kernel update, right?

That I dont know about. I know that Ive never had to reinstall a driver after a kernel update though.

[dannyboy79]

That I dont know about. I know that Ive never had to reinstall a driver after a kernel update though.

if a module (driver) is installed its compiled against the currently installed kernel at that time. the nvidia driver from the website in fact does this, it's a script that builds the driver against your current kernel. So, YES, if you're running an nvidia driver from their website that gets installed via their script, it will need to be reinstalled when a kernel upgrade occurs so that it can be compiled against the new kernel.

[whatthefunk]

if a module (driver) is installed its compiled against the currently installed kernel at that time. the nvidia driver from the website in fact does this, it's a script that builds the driver against your current kernel. So, YES, if you're running an nvidia driver from their website that gets installed via their script, it will need to be reinstalled when a kernel upgrade occurs so that it can be compiled against the new kernel.

Learn something new every day

[bogan]

Hi!, dannyboy79, et alia,

YOU Posted:

So, YES, if you're running an nvidia driver from their website that gets installed via their script, it will need to be reinstalled when a kernel upgrade occurs so that it can be compiled against the new kernel.

That was true for the 295.xxx nvidia drivers and before, but not for 304.xx onwards.

The recent nvidia.com drivers are DKMS compatible, so the kernal module gets updated, just as it does with the Ubuntu ppa nvidia-current drivers.

Chao!, bogan.

[Majki-Fajki]

Well, I installed 12.04 again. I really wanted to have 3.4+ kernel

Thanks guys.

[dannyboy79]

Well, I installed 12.04 again. I really wanted to have 3.4+ kernel

Thanks guys.

if you really wanted the 3.4+ kernel then why did you give up?