[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 125, Issue 4

Sat Nov 9 19:48:08 PST 2013

First, thank you for your response.
The list of packages from my first posting was from my package cache:
it came from "sudo apt-get update" followed by
apt-cache search --names-only '^nvidia[-].*' which listed
nvidia-319  and the others so I  didn't need to add another PPA
It turns out the nvidia package takes care of getting rid of the old driver.
Fortunately, I installed it at your CABAL meetings. It was not
straightforward and at one intermediate point I only had a console to
rescue me. There was expert help there to rescue me. Works great now.
Thanks.

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>    1. installing nvidia driver on ubuntu 13.10 (Les Usenet)
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> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:25:52 -0800
> From: Les Usenet <les.groups at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [conspire] installing nvidia driver on ubuntu 13.10
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> When I updated ubuntu from 13.04 to 13.10 it installed the open source
> driver and it does not work as well as NVidia's
> For my x86_64 laptop with its NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M TurboCache, Nvidia
> recommends  version 319.60
>
> Can I just do an
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-319
> Is the package smart enough to remove the existing driver and install the
> nvida one successfully?
>
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> Here is a list of nvidia-* packages
> nvidia-prime - Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
> nvidia-settings - Transitional package for nvidia-settings
> nvidia-settings-304 - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
> nvidia-settings-304-updates - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics
> driver
> nvidia-settings-310 - Transitional package for nvidia-settings-310
> nvidia-settings-310-updates - Transitional package for
> nvidia-settings-310-updates
> nvidia-settings-313-updates - Transitional package for
> nvidia-settings-313-updates
> nvidia-settings-319 - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
> nvidia-settings-319-updates - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics
> driver
> nvidia-settings-experimental-304 - Transitional package for
> nvidia-settings-experimental-304
> nvidia-settings-updates - Transitional package for nvidia-settings-updates
> ubuntu-drivers-common - Detect and install additional Ubuntu driver packages
> nvidia-cg-dev - Cg Toolkit - GPU Shader Authoring Language (headers)
> nvidia-cg-doc - Cg Toolkit - GPU Shader Authoring Language (documentation)
> nvidia-cg-toolkit - Cg Toolkit - GPU Shader Authoring Language
> nvidia-cuda-dev - NVIDIA CUDA development files
> nvidia-cuda-doc - NVIDIA CUDA and OpenCL documentation
> nvidia-cuda-gdb - NVIDIA CUDA GDB
> nvidia-cuda-toolkit - NVIDIA CUDA toolkit
> nvidia-opencl-dev - NVIDIA OpenCL development files
> nvidia-visual-profiler - NVIDIA Visual Profiler
> nvidia-173 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
> nvidia-173-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
> nvidia-304 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
> nvidia-304-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
> nvidia-304-updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU
> library
> nvidia-304-updates-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
> nvidia-310 - Transitional package for nvidia-310
> nvidia-310-dev - Transitional package for nvidia-310-dev
> nvidia-310-updates - Transitional package for nvidia-310-updates
> nvidia-310-updates-dev - Transitional package for nvidia-310-updates-dev
> nvidia-313-updates - Transitional package for nvidia-313-updates
> nvidia-313-updates-dev - Transitional package for nvidia-313-updates-dev
> nvidia-319 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
> nvidia-319-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
> nvidia-319-updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU
> library
> nvidia-319-updates-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
> nvidia-current - Transitional package for nvidia-current
> nvidia-current-dev - Transitional package for nvidia-current-dev
> nvidia-current-updates - Transitional package for nvidia-current-updates
> nvidia-current-updates-dev - Transitional package for
> nvidia-current-updates-dev
> nvidia-experimental-304 - Transitional package for nvidia-experimental-304
> nvidia-experimental-304-dev - Transitional package for
> nvidia-experimental-304-dev
> nvidia-experimental-310 - Transitional package for nvidia-experimental-310
> nvidia-experimental-310-dev - Transitional package for
> nvidia-experimental-310-dev
> libnvtt-bin - NVIDIA Texture Tools (Binaries)
> nvidia-common - transitional package for ubuntu-drivers-common
> nvidia-nsight - NVIDIA Nsight Eclipse Edition
> nvidia-profiler - NVIDIA Profiler for CUDA and OpenCL
> vdpau-va-driver - VDPAU-based backend for VA API
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> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 20:04:56 -0800
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
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> Subject: Re: [conspire] installing nvidia driver on ubuntu 13.10
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> Quoting Les Usenet (les.groups at gmail.com):
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>> When I updated ubuntu from 13.04 to 13.10 it installed the open source
>> driver and it does not work as well as NVidia's
>> For my x86_64 laptop with its NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M TurboCache, Nvidia
>> recommends  version 319.60
>>
>> Can I just do an
>> sudo apt-get install nvidia-319
>
> Er, I believe you'll need to enable the appropriate PPA.  (The
> Ubuntu-GNOME-Unity-desktop thing to enable 'restricted drivers' can, I
> believe, do the necessary addition to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ on your
> behalf.)
>
>> Is the package smart enough to remove the existing driver and install the
>> nvida one successfully?
>
> I'm pretty sure that's not necessary, but you can make sure you lose it
> by doing 'apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau'.  (Season
> with sudo to suit.)
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