Fluxbox manually install nvidia drivers
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Warning: This might break your system. Use at your own risk!
How to manually install latest nVidia drivers (mine were 180.44) for Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox, please note there is a real chance your system will become unusable if anything goes wrong...you have been warned!!!
First you need to download the latest drivers from nVidia download page here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html, pick the latest version for Linux IA32 or Linux IA64 if you own a 64 bit CPU. Download selected drivers to your home directory.
1.Preparation for driver installation
Go to Menu > System Tools > Hardware drivers and make sure you don't have any of the default drivers activated, if you do, please deactivated it and restart your system.
Open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install build-essential make pkg-config xserver-xorg-dev for required packages
2.Installing the driver
Press CTRL+ALT+F1 to go to the first virtual terminal (CTRL+ALT+F7 if you want to return back to your session) and login with your username and password. Kill Slim by typing sudo /etc/init.d/slim stop this is important
Ok now go to your home folder and install the new driver package, type sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run and follow the instruction on screen, then restart your system sudo shutdown -r now
Test your installation after logging in with glxinfo | grep OpenGL you will get something like this
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8500 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 180.44
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
More info & troubleshot can be found at the official nVidia Linux graphics driver forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490
