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How to upgrade to Nvidia 256.xx Drivers as of now the current driver for the 32 bit system is 256.44

go to the Nvidia site and find the latest driver to a driver you want download or roll back to.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx

find the driver of choice you want to download and right click on the file and copy the URL of the file it should look some thing like this

for this example I am going to use putty

open putty and type the following replace the url to the driver of choice you copied


now you need to stop xbmc before installing or you will get an error about X running

so type this


now you want to install the driver
your going to type in the exact file name of the driver you downloaded

click ok, yes, etc,

to start xbmc again type


maybe this can get moved to tips / tricks if mods find it useful

-=Jason=-

Use PPAs.
Much cleaner install / easiest to maintain control over updates and installed version.

Up to karmic, please use:
launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa

Lucid and beyond - like Star Trek - please use:
launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

hudo thanks for the info I had no idea about it I'll add that right meow does the ppa have the 256.44 driver?

to install the ppa here is the code


-=Jason=-

just have a look yourself: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

there's also the instructions how to add this repo

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

how come after adding the x-swat repo it doesn't show up in

/ect/apt/sources.list

-=Jason=-

I installed the new nvidia drivers on xbmclivecd freak, on putty, with the command sudo sh...
All ok, but when restarting the pc, it shows the message "Process:322: Glib-warning....get pwvid-r: failed due to unknown user".
After rebooting allways shows this message, can´t start xbmc.

twice now after updating via apt-get or aptitude I have come home to a black TV. only to reboot and be taken to the TTy1 command terminal and I have had to use my method in the first post to restore my xbmc after a reboot it boots into xbmc like it should.

not sure why or how,but i just works for me

-=Jason=-

I'm not aware that updating graphics card drivers is supported on live distributions. also for xbcmfreak-specific questions, please use the appropriate thread.

Of course you can update drivers on live. It's just XBMC in standalone mode over ubuntu minimal.

Flomaster Wrote:how come after adding the x-swat repo it doesn't show up in

/ect/apt/sources.list

-=Jason=-

It will be in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
file is named ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-lucid.list