NVidia Driver Message

J dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 22:00:47 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 17:44, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed NVidia Geforce 460 with Ubuntu 11.04 machine and glxinfo
> correctly identifies that NVidia
> card is installed.
>
>
> But when I go to  Administrator->Additional Drivers. I see that NVidia
> Accelerated Graphics Driver with green
> button on, but below I also see that "This driver is activated but not
> currently in use. I am confused with
> this message. Can someone explain what does this mean and what I should do ?
> Am I missing something ?

Did you restart X (log out and log back in) or reboot, to actually
load the nVidia driver?  If not, then you're still using whatever you
were using before.




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