How can I reconfigure the nvidia proprietary drivers from the command line (ssh)?

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Published on 2010-10-12T18:58:25Z Indexed on 2011/02/09 23:34 UTC
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I have a linux HTPC (running XBMC) in my living room.

This morning I ssh'ed into the machine and did upgrade it to 10.10. When it finaly resarted it says something about running in low quality graphics and eventually returned to a command line login prompt. I ssh'ed in again and did a sudo reboot now. When it came back on this time the image is rapidly scrolling from the top to the bottom of the screen. I guess the installed driver doesn't quite work with the S-Video port on which the TV is connected.

previously it was working right with the nvidia proprietary drivers. How can I install thoses without using the GUI tool that comes with Ubuntu?

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