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-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32m]
i/o ports @ ef00 [size=128]
[virtual] expansion rom @ fc000000 [disabled] [size=128k]
capabilities: <access denied>
kernel driver in use: nvidia
kernel modules: nvidia-173, nouveau, nvidiafb

so, should trust lspci, in use?

thanks!

it appears using 173.xx.xx.

version ubuntu running?

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