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howtos:hardware:proprietary_graphics_drivers [2013/01/19 15:52 (UTC)] – [Installation via the nVIDIA Binary] hazelhowtos:hardware:proprietary_graphics_drivers [2013/04/26 13:29 (UTC)] – edited a couple of sentences brianl
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 ====== Proprietary Graphics Drivers ====== ====== Proprietary Graphics Drivers ======
  
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 === Configuration ==== === Configuration ====
  
-You will need to reboot the system for it to make use of the new drivers. Before doing so you do we need to edit ''/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf'' (or create a new file: ''/etc/modprobe.d/radeon_blacklist.conf'') and add the following lines to the file:+You will need to reboot the system for it to make use of the new drivers. Before doing so you need to edit ''/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf'' (or create a new file: ''/etc/modprobe.d/radeon_blacklist.conf'') and add the following lines to the file:
      
   blacklist radeon   blacklist radeon
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   Option "SWCursor" "true"   Option "SWCursor" "true"
  
-If there were no errors and the driver was installed successfully, you should probably want to reboot now for the drivers to be used.+If there were no errors and the driver was installed successfully, you should reboot now for the drivers to be used.
  
 === Testing ==== === Testing ====

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