tjwolf
April 24th, 2009, 08:28 PM
I was previously running Ubuntu 8.10 with the nvidia restricted drivers activated.
I decided to do a fresh install of 9.04 today, but I can't figure out how to activate the NVidia drivers. In 8.10, when I went to System->Administration-Device Drivers, I would see the NVidia driver and I could enable it. After installing 9.04, I don't see ANYTHING on this screen! I went into the Synaptic package manager and searched for 'nvidia' I find a bunch of packages that are installed!
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I really need the nvidia driver because i want to make use of the second (and bigger) monitor (using twinview).
Thanks a bunch.
P.S. the machine is a Dell Latitude D820 - as I mentioned, graphics-wise, everything was running just fine in 8.10.
I decided to do a fresh install of 9.04 today, but I can't figure out how to activate the NVidia drivers. In 8.10, when I went to System->Administration-Device Drivers, I would see the NVidia driver and I could enable it. After installing 9.04, I don't see ANYTHING on this screen! I went into the Synaptic package manager and searched for 'nvidia' I find a bunch of packages that are installed!
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I really need the nvidia driver because i want to make use of the second (and bigger) monitor (using twinview).
Thanks a bunch.
P.S. the machine is a Dell Latitude D820 - as I mentioned, graphics-wise, everything was running just fine in 8.10.