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JuseBox

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Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 260

Question about graphics card drivers.

Hello, I use nvidia 9600 GSO card and have always been using the driver right from NVIDIA. 190.53 is the version now... but i see some people are upgrading to 190.43?  am i missing something? are the repos behind in terms of nvidia cards?  This is just a question that maybe someone knew about that i was always wondering.

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Linux ArchLinux 3.2.8-1-ARCH
#1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 27 21:51:46 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
8192MB DDR3 1300MHz | Asus m5a97 | GeForce GTX 550 Ti | 120 GB SSD

jolinfire

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From: France

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 176

Re: Question about graphics card drivers.

190.53 will be soon available on mirrors. I built packages using PKGBUILDs from archlinux.org site. Because I'm kinda mad for some things

JuseBox

Member

Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 260

Re: Question about graphics card drivers.

So it would be easier to jsut run something like

sudo pacman -S nvidia-96xx

basically the same thing? just and older supported version?

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Linux ArchLinux 3.2.8-1-ARCH
#1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 27 21:51:46 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
8192MB DDR3 1300MHz | Asus m5a97 | GeForce GTX 550 Ti | 120 GB SSD

Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: Question about graphics card drivers.

those drivers are the old nvidia 96.xxx version. For your card you need the most recent drivers (supplied by the nvidia package)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia#Installing