While digging around in the Kubuntu desktop, I looked at "System/Hardware Drivers" and noticed that the NVIDIA proprietary driver was not in use. I have often read that this driver was better, enabling more desirable features than the standard Linux driver. There was a tempting "activate" button that I almost hit, but decided to check the forum and wiki beforehand. I didn't see much on the forums, but I found a section on display drivers in the tutorials.
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Display_Drivers
This outlines a more complicated way of manually loading the driver. Should I use this procedure from the tutorial or is it outdated? Should I press the activate button on the Kubuntu desktop or will that break the system? Should I be messing with the proprietary driver at all?
As my signature shows, I have an ASUS P5N7A-VM with onboard GeForce 9300 chipset. Thanks in advance.
John
When the system first installs the LinuxMCE parts, if it detects an NVIDIA card, it will attempt to install the NVIDIA binary drivers automatically.
-Thom
Thanks for the reply, Thom. Does that mean that MCE is using the proprietary driver, even though the Kubuntu hardware driver menu shows that it is not installed?
well, if you ran through the AVWizard, it should have installed the driver. You can see by looking at the contents of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... to see if the "nvidia" driver is used, instead of "nv"
-Thom
Great. I did run the wizard and xorg.conf shows "nvidia" as it should.
John
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version shows you the version of the driver used.