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Which driver for my Grafics Card?

Asked by Homer

I am running Ubuntu 7.10 and have a nVidia4 MX 4000 grafics card. My question is, when I went to the add/remove applications part of my desktop menu I was given a choice of three different drivers, so which one do I use? By the way i am easily confused so please help!
Thank You,
Homer

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Homer (homer26s) said : 		#1

I think I fixed my own problem, as I was browsing throw the forum I found this statement to someone else.

 Bhavani Shankar said on 2008-07-21:

Have you enabled the restricted driver for your graphics card? It's not enabled by default.
Go to System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Manager and check it off and reboot. (the driver is called "fglrx" for future reference.)

So thank's again for your help
Homer

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Robert Spanjaard (spamtrap-arumes) said : 		#2

For future reference: the restricted nVidia driver is not called "fglrx", which is used for ATI/AMD cards, but "nvidia-glx-new" (or "nvidia-glx" for older cards/chipsets).

I also removed "gnome-system-monitor from your package list. Gnome-system-monitor is the package that belongs to System/Administration/System Monitor, and has nothing to do with graphics cards or displays.