So after struggling to watch a small 480i video on YouTube I decided to upgrade from the stock Xorg drivers to the closed source NVIDIA drivers. I give much respek to the Open Source community, but I am not a techno-vegan. Sometimes I gotta get me some of that closed source meat. :D So I hit up NVIDIA's site and find their glorious linux drivers. Side note...ahem..ATI/AMD I love you, but really would it fucking kill you to lock some code monkeys in a room for a week and have them bang out a functional open/closed source driver or three? Anyhoo, I download the biglongNVIDIAdriver.run and couldn't get the fucker to run. So after asking my *NIX guru buddy Andy just what the hell a .RUN extn was I was able to run the install (btw... .RUN is a shell script and you run it from a terminal with the syntax (if not root) sudo sh sillyfile.RUN). So I run it and it says I don't have my kernel straight...so no install for me. Well fuck you then...TO THE GOOGLE! Oh! Did I mention that after running the NVIDIA driver script I decided to bypass the "suggested" settings and I kinda jacked up my display drivers so I had to find this article via the LINKS browser (a command line only browser with frames support). Below are the exact steps I followed... from
http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490
"Debian GNU/Linux or [K]Ubuntu with Xorg 7.x
If you wish to install the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver on a Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu system that ships with Xorg 7.x, please ensure that your system meets the following requirements:
* development tools like make and gcc are installed
* the linux-headers package matching the installed Linux kernel is installed **for the linux-headers bit you will need to know your kernel version you can find this out by typing uname -r at the command prompt.
* the pkg-config and xserver-xorg-dev packages are installed"
I then re-ran the NVIDIA script and voila! It worked! Rebooted my computer and I was greeted with a fully armed and operational PCI Express Slot! \o/
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