[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 125, Issue 4

[Tony Godshall]

Is Les Usenet really Don Saklad?



On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Les Usenet <les.groups at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:00 PM,  <conspire-request at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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>>    1. installing nvidia driver on ubuntu 13.10 (Les Usenet)
>>    2. Re: installing nvidia driver on ubuntu 13.10 (Rick Moen)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:25:52 -0800
>> From: Les Usenet <les.groups at gmail.com>
>> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
>> 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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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 20:04:56 -0800
>> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
>> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
>> 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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