6:20 PM
Dear readers! Today I'd like to write a post on how to automatically install latest Nvidia display driver on Linux. When writing this post, the latest Nvidia driver is 295.40 with the following release highlight:
- Added support for the following GPUs:
- GeForce GT 635M
- GeForce 610M
- Closed a security vulnerability which made it possible for attackers to reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary system memory. For further details, see: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109
- Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort devices to occasionally fail to turn back on after the system is resumed from suspend.
- Added a ModeValidation X configuration option token, "AllowNon3DVisionModes", to allow modes that are not optimized for NVIDIA 3D Vision to be validated on 3D Vision monitors.
How to install this latest driver and get an update automatically when new version available? Simply, install "nvidia-current" package from repository:
- sudo apt-get install nivida-current
In case, you are using older Ubuntu version and there is no package named "nvidia-current", you have to add X-Updates Team PPA to your software sources:
- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install nivida-current
Please note that installing proprietary driver might broke your system, so please use this driver at your own risk!
Regards :)
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9:41 PM
Driver for Epson printers can be installed automatically on Ubuntu 11.04 (and later) when you plug your printer to computer. For many reasons, you are still using old-version of Ubuntu, you can still easily download and install various Epson printers driver for Ubuntu. There are a lot of supported printer models, here are some of them.
You can download "pack" of the above printers driver
here or
here. If you need another driver for other models, please go
here and find what need :)
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9:53 AM
Jockey is the tool that used in Ubuntu to manage 3rd party drivers, particularly proprietary driver what i mean is something like NVIDIA or ATI Graphic Drivers. Jockey available in GUI and Text mode, you can find exact function in both of them. To list what drivers jockey thinks are available for your hardware use jockey-text --list in terminal, see following example :
jockey-text --list
if you use some Proprietary drivers software such us ATI or NVIDIA, you will get feedback something like this.
xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
To do some driver update or checking some available driver update to your hardware you can use '
jockey-gtk', you can access jockey-gtk by search it on application using keywords
jockey (jockey is defaultly installed on ubuntu 11.04 and more).
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| Jockey-gtk search for update Drivers |
Besides of using GUI, jockey-gtk also comes with update driver notification in system tray.
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| jockey update driver notification |
it's easy right, now we don't need to worries if have find difficulty when finding some proprietary drivers software.
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