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Updating Nvidia drivers 11.10 (nvidia 290.xxx.xxx)

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http://askubuntu.com – Hi I installed nvidia drivers using terminal... i added the newest repositories, to ensure getting the newest driver, once that was complete, i ran the following command sudo apt-get install nvidia-current this started the download and successfully installed the (290.xx.xxx) version. The issue I have is when opening X-server application it still shows NVidia driver version 173.14.30. Can someone walk me through correcting this so it corresponds to the driver installed. Thanks (HowTos)

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