nVidia latest Drivers - How to install

[Kosimo]

Quick question, is there a way I can find out what video card I'm using within Ubuntu? I know its some 8800 but I don't remember if its GT, GTS, or some other crappy naming system Nvidia came out with.

Actually if you have any nVidia drivers, just go to the settings-manager and it'll tell you exactly witch card are you currently using.

[RATM_Owns]

Mine says GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

And there's a GeForce driver and a nForce driver.

EDIT: Nevar mind.

[steveneddy]

I don't have this card... Witch Drivers version are you currently using?

which drivers

witch is an ugly old woman that eats children.

[Kosimo]

which drivers

witch is an ugly old woman that eats children.

Sorry dude... English is not my native language and I'm trying to do my best...

[bapoumba]

Sorry dude... English is not my native language and I'm trying to do my best...

I can relate to that

A smiley would have been appreciated, steveneddy..

[Valok]

Actually if you have any nVidia drivers, just go to the settings-manager and it'll tell you exactly witch card are you currently using.

Where is the settings manager? Tried typing it into a terminal but it said 'command not found'

[eragon100]

Just so you now, 180.08 is already available. It adds openGL 3.0 support.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.08/ (64-bit)

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/180.08/ (32-bit)

[Ub1476]

Where is the settings manager? Tried typing it into a terminal but it said 'command not found'

You need to install it from Synaptic. "nvidia-settings" or something. However, typing "lspci | grep VGA" should do the trick too.

Hm, gotta install this driver now. Hope it's improvments for KDE 4 too.. By the way, what's the difference between 2d and 3d?

[Kosimo]

You need to install it from Synaptic. "nvidia-settings" or something. However, typing "lspci | grep VGA" should do the trick too.

Hm, gotta install this driver now. Hope it's improvments for KDE 4 too.. By the way, what's the difference between 2d and 3d?

Are you serious?

3D applications, google earth, 3D Games, etc etc...

2D, Compiz, video, etc...

[oedipuss]

which includes for the first time ever Pure Video on Linux.
I am impressed with the general performance and stability. Compiz have never been that smooth, video has an amazing quality even when I'm moving my desktop cube, any 3D app can perfectly run with no issues also with compiz.

What video player are you using? I thought there wasn't any that implemented purevideo yet.