[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

[John Stevenson]

On 6 June 2010 17:33, John Matthews <jakewc2 at sky.com> wrote:

>  On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote:
>
>
> If you are still having a problem, then it only confirms your configs were
> updated.  Have you restarted your desktop, you can do that by login out and
> loging back in again.
>
> If you are still having problems, is the only problem that you cant run the
> nvidia-settings tool?
>
> I am assuming that if the nvidia-settings tool is not running, then you
> dont have 3D effects (compiz) on you desktop and cant do any other 3D stuff.
>
>
> You could try to use one of the earlier config files and logout/in each
> time.
>  --
> John Stevenson
> jr0cket.com
> leanagilemachine.com
>
>
>
> Hi Yes, I am still having problems, if I go to change desktop background
> then visual effects, the try to change it from none, nothing works, it says
> its unable to. It was working perfectly till then. Really frustrating that
> is.
>
> John
>
It sounds like you are running the open source driver for your graphics card
and not the nvidia closed source driver.  The open source driver does not
support 3D, but should work well as a desktop in all other respects.

In System > Administration > Hardware Drivers it should tell you if the
nvidia driver is activated and will let you activate the driver if its not.

-- 
John Stevenson
jr0cket.com
leanagilemachine.com
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