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Originally Posted by philbar71  the main reason i have quit linux is because i have never figured out how to install darn video card drivers. every time i try i get some stupid error and then i cant find any help so i just give up :mad:
with windows it's simple. i go to nvidia's site, download a .exe and then run it from the desk top.
but with some form of linux i have had to go through all sorts of loops and bounds just to find out that it didnt work right. |
I just boot up. In the upper right corner it says Hardware Drivers Available. I click, select the driver I want (normally several versions are available in case a newer one doesn't perform as well for you), and click "activate."
Then reboot.
I know what you mean about doing stuff manually, if that's what you were trying to do. When the newest drivers come out a lot of users will try them out manually cause normally it takes a little bit of time for the developers to make 1 compiled easy-to-use package for everybody... and once or twice I've come up unsuccessful from doing that. But ever since I've been with Ubuntu I've used Nvidia, and they've always came to me telling me "hey new drivers!" and I just hit that activate button and we're good to go.