One last thing! I almost forgot: BEFORE doing the above steps you have to: *Open "Additional Drivers" and remove all the nvidia drivers and nouveau drivers *Remove nouveau xorg drivers: sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
AND here is ANOTHER POSSIBLE solution (you DON'T have to do the following steps if the first solution worked. I DIDN'T try them. Try at your own risk) copy/paste from original source: How to install NVidia driver in Fedora 13 ----------------------------------------- Fedora 13 comes with open source NOUVEAU driver for NVidia graphics card. To install the NVidia propriteray driver follow the below steps. 1) Blacklist the nouveau driver: Add below line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file blacklist nouveau 2) Rebuild the initramfs image file using dracut: * Backup the initramfs file $ sudo mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak * Rebuild the initramfs file $ sudo dracut -v /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) 3) Reboot the system to runlevel 3 (without graphics) 4) Check that nouveau driver is not loaded $ lsmod | grep nouveau 5) Run the NVidia driver package $ sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.15-pkg2.run Above command will create xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 directory which is responsible to use NVidia driver in X. 6) Restart the system and NVidia driver will be used now. Note 1: If nouveau driver is loaded in step 4, then follow any of the below step to prevent the loading of the driver ** Add below line to kernel parameter in grub while rebooting the system rdblacklist=nouveau ** Rename the nouveau driver file $ sudo mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko.txt Note 2: If a kernel update is installed then rerun the NVidia package again to rebuild the NVidia driver module against the new kernel. Last edited by samkraju; 08-11-2010 at 12:38 AM. I got the information from here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/nouveau-kernel-driver-825432/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771788 Title: nVidia driver activated and apparently being used but reported as not being used by jockey-gtk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/jockey/+bug/771788/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp