Needing Help with Nvidia Drivers for ubuntu

Hi Thomas,

I have tucked this bit of information away for later use. Thank you.

Who sells Matrox graphics cards these days? I can remember one mob that sold them a few years ago, but not the company name. Need to price up a Matrox Triple head for my old man's new office. Preferably pick-up today. Cheers.

Hi Thomas,

I have tucked this bit of information away for later use. Thank you.

seriously... wow.
so, don't offer so much information about your system that there's no way not to help...
if you want assistance, why not tell us what kind of card you have? Have you heard of lspci? Look up the manual page on it if not. that would be 'man lspci' Oh.. right, it's in a console, so, there's no need of that pointy-clicky thing.

I'll give you an example:
I typed lspci -v in a console... among many other things, I got this:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff00
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
Kernel modules: fglrx

We can see that I have an ATI vid card in a toshiba laptop with 128m ram on. You can also tell that I have my vid card sorted. However, i didn't do that, the rockin people that built ubuntu (in my case I use linux mint) did. Now, you must understand, I've used many a nVidia, and Ati, a few matrox cards, etc. We all started somewhere. Just please... next time you ask a question, lose the emotion and give us facts that matter.

I have a few suggestions:

> = then go to

1. go to: System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
Once Synaptic is open: go to Settings > Repositories.
Check all boxes for Software Sources. Then go to the "Third-Party Software" tab, check both boxes. Then go to the "Updates" Tab, check every box EXCEPT Pre-release updates.

2. go to: Applications > Add/Remove...
Once add/remove is open; there's a drop-down menu after "Show:" (probably reads "Canonical-Maintained Applications" by default) Select "All available applications" in the drop-down. Then type ubuntu in the search box. Select "Ubuntu Restricted Extras"

Follow all prompts, and go to: System > Administration > Update Manager after doing both.

Thomas