Installing Nvidia Driver
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| - | + | Animux does not come with the pre-installed version of NVIDIA drivers (as much as we would love to include them) because of copyright issues. Howerver we have made it easy for you to be able to install the nvidia drivers simply having to download then and run a couple of commands to install them. You do not have to compile the drivers as you have to do with the other linux distributions. | |
| - | Animux does not come with the pre-installed version of NVIDIA drivers (as much as we would love to include them) because of copyright issues. Howerver we have made it easy for you to be able to install the nvidia drivers simply having to download then and run a couple of commands to install them. You do not have to compile the drivers as you have to do with the other linux distributions. | + | == Install NVidia Drivers in Animux == |
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1. Download the NVidia drivers for animux from the download page by right mouse clicking and saving the driver file. Let's assume it is downloaded to /home/animuator/download/NVi-driver-x86.run<br>2. In order to install the NVidia driver you will have to shutdown the X server. You can do that by running the /etc/init.d/gdm stop command. Run this command using the super user account. <br>Click on the computer icon on your Panel which brings up the console<br>Type sudo and hit enter<br>Type the command /etc/init.d/gdm stop<br>This will bring you to the command line<br>3. Run the driver installer command<br>First make sure the install script is executable, by running the command chmod 755 /home/animator/download/NVi-driver-x86.run <br>The run the script by running /home/animator/download/NVidia-Driver-x86.run<br>4. Answer yes to all the questions<br>5. Make sure you get successfully installed driver by reading the output from the driver installer program<br>6. restart the windows environment by running /etc/init.d/gdm start<br>7. You should see the NVIDIA splash screen come on and an "other" menu item added to your "Menu"<br>8. Use the Nvidia configurator to configure your display.<br> | 1. Download the NVidia drivers for animux from the download page by right mouse clicking and saving the driver file. Let's assume it is downloaded to /home/animuator/download/NVi-driver-x86.run<br>2. In order to install the NVidia driver you will have to shutdown the X server. You can do that by running the /etc/init.d/gdm stop command. Run this command using the super user account. <br>Click on the computer icon on your Panel which brings up the console<br>Type sudo and hit enter<br>Type the command /etc/init.d/gdm stop<br>This will bring you to the command line<br>3. Run the driver installer command<br>First make sure the install script is executable, by running the command chmod 755 /home/animator/download/NVi-driver-x86.run <br>The run the script by running /home/animator/download/NVidia-Driver-x86.run<br>4. Answer yes to all the questions<br>5. Make sure you get successfully installed driver by reading the output from the driver installer program<br>6. restart the windows environment by running /etc/init.d/gdm start<br>7. You should see the NVIDIA splash screen come on and an "other" menu item added to your "Menu"<br>8. Use the Nvidia configurator to configure your display.<br> | ||
Revision as of 16:55, 6 November 2008
Animux does not come with the pre-installed version of NVIDIA drivers (as much as we would love to include them) because of copyright issues. Howerver we have made it easy for you to be able to install the nvidia drivers simply having to download then and run a couple of commands to install them. You do not have to compile the drivers as you have to do with the other linux distributions.
Install NVidia Drivers in Animux
1. Download the NVidia drivers for animux from the download page by right mouse clicking and saving the driver file. Let's assume it is downloaded to /home/animuator/download/NVi-driver-x86.run
2. In order to install the NVidia driver you will have to shutdown the X server. You can do that by running the /etc/init.d/gdm stop command. Run this command using the super user account.
Click on the computer icon on your Panel which brings up the console
Type sudo and hit enter
Type the command /etc/init.d/gdm stop
This will bring you to the command line
3. Run the driver installer command
First make sure the install script is executable, by running the command chmod 755 /home/animator/download/NVi-driver-x86.run
The run the script by running /home/animator/download/NVidia-Driver-x86.run
4. Answer yes to all the questions
5. Make sure you get successfully installed driver by reading the output from the driver installer program
6. restart the windows environment by running /etc/init.d/gdm start
7. You should see the NVIDIA splash screen come on and an "other" menu item added to your "Menu"
8. Use the Nvidia configurator to configure your display.
Enabling SLI Mode
coming soon....
