graphix driver Nvidia [Solved]

[dan158]

I just installed Saybayon10 amd64. I have an NVidia gt 430 graphix card and I want to update the drivers to the latest
ones from nvidia.
I tried to search for the term "nvidia" and this forum said its to common a word to search for, so I spent a few hours scanning various posts and threads and couldnt see much in the way of a clear guide about how to update the driver in this OS.

I'd really apreciate being pointed in the right direction.

I use Blender and GIMP alot and I like to play some online games (as well as watch hulu) so I'd like to keep my poor graphix card up to its best.

as illustraitions;
I tried to play RIFT through wine and it sort of started but it told me my drivers were woafully out of date and its opening video wouldn't display (just flashing white/black screen sized boxes till I hit esc). its control ui came on ok but the choose-characters image behind the start bar would not show.
WoW gives 26 - 45 fps (with spikes to 58 occasionaly) on windows, same card - up to date drivers - its 65 - 110 fps.
Hulu playes vides well, and vimeo plays in HD if I want but its kind of chopy sometimes though that might be my connection.
Havent tested Blender or GIMP yet

Thank you for what ever light you can shed on this.
(keep in mind that I'm something of an idiot sometimes .... so type Sloowwly and clearlly Please )

[Ryuno-Ki]

I tried to search for the term "nvidia" and this forum said its to common a word to search for, so I spent a few hours scanning various posts and threads and couldnt see much in the way of a clear guide about how to update the driver in this OS.

Yeah, really annoying. Well, regarding to the Tips you can use a search engine like DuckDuckGo to search for nvidia.

[linuxfluesterer]

Hallo Dan...
You can also look for 'nvidia-settings' tool.
If not installed, you can find in Rigo.
This tool will tell you, which driver you actually use now,
and you can implicit, which driver you'll need for update.
Then find it in Rigo and (it must match to your kernel!) you should be able to update.

Good luck.

-Linuxfluesterer (I love KDE ...)

[Provia]

To know your kernel version type in console

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uname -r

Then search drivers type "nvidia-drivers" in rigo and you will get the list of available drivers for each kernel version. Then install the lastest for your kernel.

In addition i suggest you to check if you are actually using proprietary drivers typing

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eselect opengl list

Then if you want last kernel you can use kernel-switcher script, type

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kernel-switcher list

to get the list of available kernels then do the switch to lastest linux-sabayon(official kernel of sabayon), in this case 3.7.4

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kernel-switcher switch sys-kernel/linux-sabayon-3.7.4

The script will update your kernel and proprietary drivers too. Before reboot check if you are pointing to new kernel and nvidia drivers with

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eselect kernel list

and

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eselect opengl list

[dan158]

thank you all very much, you were a big help.
sorry it took me some time to respond.

@ Ryuno-Ki ; Duckduckgo is my favorite search engine. I acctualy remove all the others except wiki' and some times 'Ixquick HTTPS'.