Notebook video card help

[Richard Mancusi]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 00:44, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It seems that the last NVidia driver available through Synaptic 180.*
> (180.44 for Jaunty Beta) will do.
>
> After a successful install, once your system is running, it will
> eventually offer a NVidia proprietary driver. Once the driver is
> installed, Ubuntu will automatically compile it and (after restart)
> make available all resolutions and Visual Effects (Compiz) as well as
> nvidia-settings (System - Administration - NVidia), the tool for
> configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver.
>
> No need to even go to the NVidia site but this is the link:
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
>
>
> --
> Lucio M Nicolosi, Eng. - Sao Paulo - Brazil
> skype: lmnicolosi1
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>

I finally made the purchase and wanted to report back to the
list and thank Lucio again. It worked exactly as Lucio stated.

The following works perfectly in 9.04:
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M graphics with 512 MB dedicated
video memory.  Screen resolution is 1920 x 1200.

Synaptic Package Manager's descriptions are very clear as to
which GPUs are supported for each driver.  I strongly suggest
you check there prior to selecting your driver - IF - you are
not prompted with a recommended driver as I was.

-rich