How to install nvidia drivers for 2.6.23.15-137 kernel?

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:23:17PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

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> I'm not an action gamer, so this 9200SE is generally fast enough for me.  I 
> might change my mind if in the next 6 months, something wipes the boot drives 
> LSN0 clean, which happened to me twice while running the nvidia blob in the 
> last 15 months, the second time completely destroying a 200GB WD drive that 
> was about a month out of warranty.  If such as that doesn't happen while 
> running an ATI card and open drivers, that's just another 20mg of cialis in 
> the finger pointing at nvidia.

I have a hard time imagining how the NVIDIA driver can destroy a disk drive
or the filesystems thereon. "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" does not apply here.
Now, if you have a beef with NVIDIA's closed source drivers, that's fine,
and you've got lots of company. But it's a *long* way from closed source
drivers to a wasted disk or FS. It is simply implausible in the extreme that
NVIDIA's display drivers toasted your disk or your filesystems.

Kurt
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