Re: [PLUG] Wallpaper only after nVidia driver installation in Ubuntu 12.04

2012-12-03 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
You can use the newer nvidia ppa that the Ubuntu Desktop Team has for Steam that should bump you to the latest. The ppa name slips my mind. On Dec 1, 2012 11:39 AM, "King Beowulf" wrote: > > On 11/30/2012 10:07 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > > On 11/30/2012 09:26 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

Re: [PLUG] Wallpaper only after nVidia driver installation in Ubuntu 12.04

2012-12-01 Thread Richard C. Steffens
On 12/01/2012 11:42 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > Nvidia-173 and 295 are absolutely antique. As is my old card. As this is a machine to test things, dual head was just an experiment. I had forgotten that the reason I bought the card I have in this machine. lspci gives only the following informatio

Re: [PLUG] Wallpaper only after nVidia driver installation in Ubuntu 12.04

2012-12-01 Thread King Beowulf
On 11/30/2012 10:07 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > On 11/30/2012 09:26 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> I have Ubuntu 12.04 running on my test system. I added an nVidia card to >> the system <...> > Further searching turned up: > > - > jockey-text --he

Re: [PLUG] Wallpaper only after nVidia driver installation in Ubuntu 12.04

2012-11-30 Thread Richard C. Steffens
On 11/30/2012 09:26 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > I have Ubuntu 12.04 running on my test system. I added an nVidia card to > the system <...> Further searching turned up: - jockey-text --help jockey-text -l jockey-text -e xorg:nvidia_current

[PLUG] Wallpaper only after nVidia driver installation in Ubuntu 12.04

2012-11-30 Thread Richard C. Steffens
I have Ubuntu 12.04 running on my test system. I added an nVidia card to the system and connected one of my wide screen monitors. So far, so good. The system was using the default driver, so I followed (possibly the wrong) directions to install the nVidia driver. The instructions I found were a