a few problems..

[ravelink69]

First. I have tried a few different things i have seen online and im not able to get it right. i have an HP Pavilion dv6000 and it has a nVidia 8400M GS (i believe its a GS) but anyways i cant seem to get it to work on a fresh copy of 7.10

any help would be appreciated

[tamoneya]

Saying "this doesnt work" makes it very hard for us to solve(althought we do love challenges). It helps to have a little more information. what errors have you gotten? what exactly have you tried? Where did it fail?

[ravelink69]

i guess that would help....sorry im just a bit frustrated with something that i know is prolly only a small mistake on my part.

Basically i can get the video card to install.when i goto the restricted drivers management to enable the "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (latest cards)" then click enable i get an error :

The software source for the package
nvidia-glx-new
is not enabled.

[tamoneya]

go into terminal (applications -> accessories -> terminal) and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new

[ravelink69]

Reading package list...Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...Done
Package nvidia-glx-new is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
E: Package nvidia-glx-new has no installation candidate

Thats what i get after entering the second code

[tamoneya]

try taking off the "-new" so it is just nvidia-glx