Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: Nvidia driver problem Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:59:20 -0700 Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net eDAx6LhRVKd+/mL0ufGzgg4/6JgRSxMK415g5mAJL6AJCv7F758Yt2K7MFy9Fav+3l Cancel-Lock: sha1:1CoWad254HiUGSH8ULanxrAwtvI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120825 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:1427 Francis Marsden wrote: > Using Ubuntu 10.04. My ATI graphics card failed and I just had it > replaced with an ASUS/Nvidia GT520 Silent 1GB DDR3 GeForce. I > uninstalled ATI drivers via Synaptic and installed all the available > Nvidia drivers via Synaptic. Under 'System'-'Administration'-'Hardware > Drivers' it searches and then says 'Nvidia accelerated graphics driver > (version current) is in use and activated. There are options for two > (earlier?) drivers which are not activated. But when I go to 'System' > -'Administation' 'Nvidia X-server settings' I get a message saying "you > do not appear to be using the nvidia x driver. Please edit your X > configuration file (just run nvidia-xconfig as root) and restart the > X-server" . Also, when i go to system-administration-system testing and > try the video tests, none of them seem to work. Can someone tell me > what to do? I am not a power user and have no idea how to edit a > configuration file. TIA Rather than edit the configuration file, I think I would rather install the proprietary driver from NVidia. Go to this page http://www.geforce.com/drivers (I'm using the manual search function there) and select whether you are doing 32 or 64 bit It shows me this page http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/47533 ... for x86 linux drivers for a whole bunch of NVidia including GeForce 500 Series - GeForce GT 520 Linux Display Driver - x86 Version 304.43 Release Date Mon Aug 27, 2012 Operating System Linux 32-bit Language English (US) File Size 37.54 MB (notice that brand new release date) Also that page has a link to a very useful readme which should not be neglected http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.43/README/index.html NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver README and Installation Guide especially #4 http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.43/README/installdriver.html Chapter 4. Installing the NVIDIA Driver -- Mike Easter