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Im having no luck installing nvidia drivers using the terminal.
any tips on this?

Rather being so generic if you could give us a little details about your problem and what you have done so far, it gets always lot easier to help. BTW, try these two:

If you want the binary package from nVidia site:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu#Method_3:_Manual_Installation


Using X Updates repository:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu#Me...repository

Hope this helps. Cheers!!

MacUsers Wrote:Using X Updates repository:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu#Me...repository

I highly recommend this

MacUsers Wrote:Rather being so generic if you could give us a little details about your problem and what you have done so far, it gets always lot easier to help. BTW, try these two:

If you want the binary package from nVidia site:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu#Method_3:_Manual_Installation


Using X Updates repository:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu#Me...repository

Hope this helps. Cheers!!

Both of these didnt work
the first one came up with 404 errors
Using X Updates repository
add-apt-repository : command not found
HELP!!!!

Jessenightfox Wrote:Both of these didnt work
the first one came up with 404 errors
Using X Updates repository
add-apt-repository : command not found
HELP!!!!

While it may not be the best way here's how I did it.

1) Download the nvidia driver from the nvidia website as a "xxx.run" file
(I did this in windows and ftp'ed the file over to my xbmc (revo).

Here is the latest stable driver
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...256.53.run

2) Use a terminal and log in as root

3) Stop x Server, Type;

sudo pkill X

4) Type this command from the directory where the .run file is;

sh ./xxx.run

So using the latest driver it would be;

sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53.run

5) Follow onscreen instructions

Jessenightfox Wrote:Both of these didnt work
the first one came up with 404 errors
Using X Updates repository
add-apt-repository : command not found
HELP!!!!

This implies you are using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) or lower (add-apt-repository wasn't introduced till Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid).

Nvidia stopped adding newer driver builds to the older repository some time ago, so you'll only get an out of date version using apt on your setup.

Follow tinybilbo's method, with the latest driver from http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html - Linux x86/IA32 or Linux x86_64/AMD64/EM64T, as appropriate.

Jessenightfox Wrote:Using X Updates repository
add-apt-repository : command not found
HELP!!!!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Reposi...ommandLine

https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swa.../x-updates

well, look at that! there's even an installation guide available on the x-swat PPA for different ubuntu releases! jolly gosh!