nvidia graphic drivers not istalled/working

[cindy1990]

i installed ubuntu 12.04 yesterday on my laptop (dell inspiron 1545) when i try to use the nvidia setting it says

"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."

how do i do that?

also "additional drivers" never showed my graphics driver. only did my wireless card driver.

[robtygart]

Open Terminal or press ctrl+T

run this command.

sudo nvidia-xconfig

Let me know how it works.

[cindy1990]

Open Terminal or press ctrl+T

run this command.

sudo nvidia-xconfig

Let me know how it works.

i got.

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.

New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'


i also forgot to mention myunity was working and now it wont. says im running in 2d mode.

[cindy1990]

Open Terminal or press ctrl+T

run this command.

sudo nvidia-xconfig

Let me know how it works.

i got.

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.

New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'


i also forgot to mention myunity was working and now it wont. says im running in 2d mode.

[robtygart]

i got.

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.

New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'


i also forgot to mention myunity was working and now it wont. says im running in 2d mode.

Go to System settings> Additional Drivers, check to see if your driver shows up there and is on.

[cindy1990]

Go to System settings> Additional Drivers, check to see if your driver shows up there and is on.

nope not there...im goin to re istall and go from there

[robtygart]

nope not there...im goin to re istall and go from there

This will install open source nvidia driver

sudo apt-get install nouveau-firmware

or
This will install current invidia drivers ( I and others have been having some trouble with this one. Don't know why!

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

[cindy1990]

This will install open source nvidia driver

sudo apt-get install nouveau-firmware

or
This will install current invidia drivers ( I and others have been having some trouble with this one. Don't know why!

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

"facepalm" silly me just relized my computer has intel not nivdia...thankfully i relized that b4 i typed it the above. im so use to working with computers that has nividia. ( this laptop was just given to me).......though under system-details. it says graphic unknown.......anyway to tell what my graphic is?

[cindy1990]

This will install open source nvidia driver

sudo apt-get install nouveau-firmware

or
This will install current invidia drivers ( I and others have been having some trouble with this one. Don't know why!

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

"facepalm" silly me just relized my computer has intel not nivdia...thankfully i relized that b4 i typed it the above. im so use to working with computers that has nividia. ( this laptop was just given to me).......though under system-details. it says graphic unknown.......anyway to tell what my graphic is?

[robtygart]

Use this

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga

Please post the results.