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Currently I'm using the 9.11 live with the 170.xx driver.

I did the following to update

added these two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu karmic main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu karmic main

than...
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys AF1CDFA9
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

and the result :

xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package nvidia-current

What am I doing wrong ?

You can try specific driver versions. This guide is helpful:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM...ed_drivers

If you don't want to read the link, try:

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nvidia-195-kernel-source nvidia-glx-195 nvidia-settings mesa-utils libvdpau-dev

Substitute 195 with whatever version (173, 180, 185, etc) you want to install.

EDIT: It would be helpful to know what video hardware you have, not all hardware can run all driver versions.

See this post in the other thread... just need more info

Jerry

I've an GF8400GT and running Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l

what I need is the new beta 256.25

I haven't actually done this, but it seems like you could:

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

If apt-get upgrade still doesn't do it, try:

Code:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-graphics-drivers

Again, I haven't tried this.

Or you can download the driver package from Nvidia

Code:
sudo wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.25/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.25.run

if you have wget installed

Then, from wherever you put it on your HTPC (i.e. mine goes in a "Downloads" folder)

type

Code:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.25.run

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