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http://www.ubuntuhcl.org – Everything works out of the box with Hardy except for accelerated graphics, which was quickly fixed by enabling the nVidia driver through "Hardware Drivers". (Hardware)

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Everything works out of the box with Hardy except for accelerated graphics, which was quickly fixed by enabling the nVidia driver through "Hardware Drivers".

The program says:

"No proprietary drivers are in use on this system"

But it doesn't say if it is talking about graphical drivers only or what.

Then, it lists two drivers:

NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173). NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [recomended]

Both have exactly the same description. What is the difference between them, then??.

I selected one of the alternative NVIDIA drivers on my Sony Vaio from the Additional Drivers application. That ruined my installation and all I get is the login prompt at bootup.

However I can go in at bootup by selecting "Older Ubuntu Versions" and selecting whatever was there before.

I selected one of the alternative NVIDIA drivers on my Sony Vaio from the Additional Drivers application. That ruined my installation and all I get is the login prompt at bootup.

However I can go in at bootup by selecting "Older Ubuntu Versions" and selecting whatever was there before.

Jockey (hardware drivers) detect my NVIDIA driver and says it's activated and in use, however, changes to CCSM don't take effect.

Hi,

I've been trying to get my graphic card working under ubuntu and opensuse but to no avail.

First, i tried through additional drivers, but after installation it keeps saying "this driver is activated but not currently in use". That is 3D-accelerated proprietary graphics driver for NVIDIA cards.

Drivers for emachine E525 3 years 10 weeks ago

Hello every body, i am new user of openSuse, and i have a problem with my graphic driver, for exemple when i want run sketchup, i have a message "Sketchup can't initialise OpenGl, Check your graphics driver" i've a emachines e525 and my graphic card is a intel

thank you for your help

Okokokok, need help before I throw my rig out the freakin' window...

I'm trying to install my 8400GS on 11.10 and when I run the file provided by nVidia, I get the following:

Quote:

Originally Posted by NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 (290.10)

WARNING: You do not appear to have an NVIDIA GPU supported by the 290.10 NVIDIA L

Hello, I've just installed Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit). After installation I selected "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended] from the Additional Drivers dialog box and let it download and install.