How to install a NVIDIA driver for 11.10 [duplicate]
Solution 1:
You can install the latest drivers for NVidia doing this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings
if anything goes wrong, simply purge the ppa:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates