Back to Mint

[Alfred]

-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Lewis <lesliel8 at gmail.com>
Reply-to: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Back to Mint
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 22:56:26 -0600

The drivers weren't listed when I did that. 

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM, David Tremblay <david at ngowiki.net>
wrote:
        For everyone who have problem after install just do the two
        following steps
        
        a) just go to system >> administration >> hardware drivers
        
        and activate the driver... it will work then

Hi Leslie Lewis:

I looked into your problem much much deeper! In Add/Remove they made a
little change. It used to be Show: All Available Applications, but now
it is the default-Show: Canonical-Maintained Applications. These Drivers
are maintained by Nvidia not Canonical, so they are not listed there. :(

What you need to do to see them, is to Click on the little down arrow in
the Show: Dialogue Box. When you do that, you will see one of the
options is Show: All Available Applications. Then do a Search for
"nvidia". You will see that all the Nvidia Drivers are there! :)  :)

Before you do anything else though take a look in Synaptic. Do a "Quick
Search" of "nvidia", they are all listed - all the drivers. Then notice
which ones were pre-installed, in 9.04. It detected the Nvidia Card, on
my system it looks for old nvidia drivers on the Internet, as the
default way, but whatever driver you used before in say 8.10 or 8.04
they are all listed there, in Synaptic. :) :) :)! So just pick the one
you used before in either ADD/Remove or Synaptic.

I might check out Linux Mint, see what it is about. But now you can play
Tux Extreme at 150 frames per second again. :)

Alfred!