Thread: Finding out if nvidia driver is in use or not
hello! i'm having tough time installing nvidia drivers! in previous versions, use 'proprietary drivers' thing , install current version of nvidia drivers me. i'm getting "the driver activated not in use". i'm using dell vostro 1400 8400m. i've purged nvidia , nouveau stuff, , reinstalled scratch on terminal, still cant figure out if it's being used or not! "proprietary driver" still says it's not in use, , i'm getting choppy animations, since card pretty old, maybe it's way it's suposed be. lspci says: 01:00.0 vga compatible controller: nvidia corporation g86 [geforce 8400m gs] (re v a1) (prog-if 00 [vga controller]) subsystem: dell device 0227 flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, irq 16 memory @ fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16m] memory @ e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256m] memory @ fa000000 (64-...