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[krates]

ok so I am so much irritated right now I can't tell :(

I am very new to linux starting from ubuntu 8.04 32BIT

After lot of research I was able to install 9800 GT drivers manually via the terminal..

Then I became very happy I was getting really good graphics transitions better than windows 7 but when I restarted the PC and when I was back on

I was getting terrible graphics and when I went to nvidia settings it is showing me you do not appear to be using NVIDIA x SERVER something like that

I read lot of forums some said go and enable the restricted driver but I can't find not even a Single Driver in Hardware drivers!! :@

Then I installed envy that too didn't helped ~x( :@

Please guys can you please help me out :)

[Gaurish]

Now, do you get display or not?

if you have correctly installed the drivers then do

sudo nvidia-xconfig

this will create a new config file, after that restart X (GUI).

and then check if driver is enabled correctly or not.

glxinfo | grep endering

It should say YES. if it says no, then please come and post the output of

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Note: X is short for X server which is responsible for GUI display in Ubuntu and other *nix based oses

[archish]

I would assume 9800GT was not released and hence not supported by the restricted drivers available in 8.04.

The easy way is to install via Hardware Drivers. If you want to load the newer version you can add this PPA and enable the 190 series. It will download and do the rest ;)

Before the you do the above steps make sure ur system is updated just to ensure there are no bugs killing your installation.

Other way as suggested by Gaurish. My personal preference is via ppa/Jockey as it saves me the time to recompile nvidia header every time the kernel is updated.

[Gaurish]

Yes, do as @archish says, install the latest nvidia driver first and generate a new config with nvidia-xconfig

[krates]

@archish and gaurish thanks for the help I installed it via the PPA.. it worked :D