Edward Kerr wrote: > Umm not as easy as it seems! It never is :-)
I'm going to try a new install of 7.04 over the weekend on one of my work desktops, if I'm allowed into work over the weekend. That's a fairly standard box with an Nvidia card so should be a reasonable test. > The restricted drivers section tells me that I do have NVIDIA > installed and working. However, the web suggests: What exactly does it say? I have to say I find the restricted drivers tool very confusing and I'm never quite sure what it means, because: > I note from Synaptic I have "NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver" > installed. That suggests you have the FOSS driver installed, not the Nvidia binary. If you look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which driver is it loading? I suspect is has the nv driver (FOSS), not nvidia (proprietary binary) You can install the right driver through synaptic, but I suspect you've got the wrong one because it's not really clear which is which. have you tried: > sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx > sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite .. yet? Alternatively, find the nvidia-glx package through synaptic and see if its installed. I'm sure(ish!) I didn't need to manually configure the driver, so I think you just have the wrong one installed (like I said it's not obvious which is which, they're both labelled as nvidia drivers). Don't uninstall the FOSS driver though, its useful if you have problems to be able to switch back to it (usually manually editing xorg.conf as root and changing nvidia to nv is enough, which is very handy if something breaks; it's happened to me once). -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
