<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 June 2010 17:33, John Matthews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jakewc2@sky.com">jakewc2@sky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div class="im"> On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div><br> 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.<br> <br> If you are still having problems, is the only problem that you cant run the nvidia-settings tool?<br> <br> 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. <br> <br> You could try to use one of the earlier config files and logout/in each time.<br> </div> </div> -- <br> John Stevenson<br> <a href="http://jr0cket.com" target="_blank">jr0cket.com</a><br> <a href="http://leanagilemachine.com" target="_blank">leanagilemachine.com</a></blockquote> <br> <br></div> 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. <br> <br> John<font color="#888888"></font></div></blockquote><div>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.<br> <br>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.<br><br>-- <br></div></div>John Stevenson<br><a href="http://jr0cket.com">jr0cket.com</a><br> <a href="http://leanagilemachine.com">leanagilemachine.com</a><br><br>