how to install nvidia drivers on another drive

When the kernel module detects that an nVidia card isn't present, it shoots up this nasty little dialog box giving me the option to boot into 'low graphics' mode, which doesn't even allow me to use the correct screen resolution, much less see the installed graphics card and try to configure a driver for it. Not so- now the desktop and any other nVidia cards work great, but it seems to have completely disabled any other graphics cards. Because you know, the wobble windows are the most awesome thing ever.Īnyway, my desktop machine had an nVidia card, so I'm thinking, sure, I'll just install the nVidia drivers like before and everything will work happily.

So far so good, it boots and runs on everything, and on non-nVidia card setups was even detecting the drivers, or letting me install the required drivers for hardware acceleration and compiz.

I've created a wonderful (until this issue) portable copy of Ubuntu linux that will boot on mostly anything by using a USB enclosure for my laptop's 80GB SATA drive. I've been pulling my hair out over this one for a couple of days now, google is no help.

How to install nvidia drivers on another drive