nVidia + Intrepid: Install Linux driver version 180
Friday, 5 December 2008If you experience problems or poor performance using Ubuntu's latest nVidia driver nvidia-glx-177 (as I did with a "nVidia Quadro NVS 160M"), try to upgrade to version 180. A package has been build for the next version of ubuntu (called "Jaunty Jackalope"), but sadly it has not been backported to Intrepid yet.
Who cares, I'll explain how to use Jaunty's repository with Intrepid to install this driver. First, make sure that you installation is up to date: