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Daniel Grings
March 27th, 2009, 12:10 AM
I'm new on Ubuntu and need some help to install Nvidia Driver!(I'm an offline user)

1º It asks me to Exit X Server! How to do that?
2º What's next?

Thank you all :)

norwoods
March 27th, 2009, 03:01 AM
go to this web site to decide which driver you want to install:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606
Current official release: 180.29 (x86 / x86_64)
Current prerelease: 180.41
Current beta release: 185.13
download the driver you want and the associated README file.
x86 is 32 bit and x86_64 is 64 bit
follow the instructions in the README file.