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Hi, I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my inspiron 8200. I believe that in order to get my graphics driver going i need to enable a NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver, but when I do, I get the error "The software source for the package 'nvidia-glx' is not enabled". I am pretty new to linux in general, so im sorry if this is a "newb" question, but I've tried searching everywhere to find an answer but anything I find just confuses me more. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.
Aloha,
Make sure all updates are installed and then reboot. After that see if you can get it to work by going to System -> Administration -> Restricted Driver Manager.
Mahalo,
Edward
Well i believe i have all the updates downloaded, is there a way to tell. Also I tried rebooting and enabling the driver but it came back with the same message.
Did you install the most recent nVidia driver or the Legacy driver ?
I have an Inspiron 8100 with the nvidia2go graphics controller. T
he nvidia2go GPU is not supported by the latest drivers, only the legacy-nvidia drivers.
lspci should show you what nvidia chip is in your laptop.
username@it-etch:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 SMBus (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to PCI Bridge
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
lspci essentially means LIST all devices on the systems PCI bus (which would include AGP or PCI Express video cards)
It will show what each device is
It will typically provide device info so you can identify the proper driver needed
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