Thursday, 2 June 2011

Install New Nvidia Driver 270.41.19 in Ubuntu

NVIDIA has released the new versions of unix drivers recently and many bugs have been fixed in this release.

To install this recent driver in ubuntu 11.xx, open the terminal and type the following:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Also the packages are available for download from following links:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/270.41.19/

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/270.41.19/