josm
March 13th, 2013, 12:00 PM
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit.
lspci reports I have a "NVIDIA Corporation G98 [Quadro NVS 295] (rev a1)" graphics card installed. I wanted to use the second monitor (by default it only mirrors the main monitor which cannot be changed) so installed nvidia-settings. nvidia-settings told me that "i do not appear to use the NVIDIA driver" so I used "Software Sources" - "Additional Drivers" to choose the NVIDIA binary Xorg driver. After this, I tried again only to get the same message!
So although the binary driver (which is the recommended one) is installed, I am still unbale to use nvidia settings? Also graphics no does not work at all, the screen shows just a lousy low resolution, and Unity has stopped working so I can only use low-resolution XFCE to do anything.
All the pages I found so far are either about different hardware or for different Ubuntu version or want me to install something from a PPA which I would rather avoid.
Is there anything known about this? I rather expected this to smoothlessy work out of the box without any fiddling around! :)
lspci reports I have a "NVIDIA Corporation G98 [Quadro NVS 295] (rev a1)" graphics card installed. I wanted to use the second monitor (by default it only mirrors the main monitor which cannot be changed) so installed nvidia-settings. nvidia-settings told me that "i do not appear to use the NVIDIA driver" so I used "Software Sources" - "Additional Drivers" to choose the NVIDIA binary Xorg driver. After this, I tried again only to get the same message!
So although the binary driver (which is the recommended one) is installed, I am still unbale to use nvidia settings? Also graphics no does not work at all, the screen shows just a lousy low resolution, and Unity has stopped working so I can only use low-resolution XFCE to do anything.
All the pages I found so far are either about different hardware or for different Ubuntu version or want me to install something from a PPA which I would rather avoid.
Is there anything known about this? I rather expected this to smoothlessy work out of the box without any fiddling around! :)