as far as i know when you are installing proprietary drivers from ubuntu repos nouveau drivers are disabled so its not a problem. the problem you say arises when you are installing drivers using nvidia supplied source and scripts, which is not a concern for average users since the drivers supplied by ubuntu repos are stable enough. the only case where you want want to use nvidia supplied source is when you want to install or bleeding edge stuff or want install drivers for a system that do not have a fast internet connection. there is one more advantage for using nvidia supplied drivers that is whenever a kernel update is performed there is no need to recompile the drivers. i know nvidia say their drivers support DKMS however it didn't work for me in karmic installation when i installed the drivers from website and i had to recompile the drivers after a kernel update as opposed to when i was using stock ubuntu packages.
On Jun 18, 9:56 pm, Mahesh Mohan <maheshmohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Vipin, > > You first have to blacklist the nouveau driver. Ubuntu and other major > GNU/Linux distros are now shipped with 'nouveau' open source driver for > Nvidia. As of now, it only supports 2D acceleration. Follow the instructions > herehttp://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-nvidia-drivers-manually-on-ub... > > http://maheshmohan.co.in > -മഹേഷ് മോഹന് എം.യു -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
