I followed instructions to install nvidia drivers found here: Nvidia driver doesn't work in 12.10
But it doesn't work for me. Same problem like in the question above: no dash and windows don't have borders.
I tried opening nvidia-xsetting
, which asked me to run nvidia-xconfig
. Running that did nothing but generate a broken xorg.conf
which I had to remove because of really low resolution. I thought this is "unity not loading problem" but instead this seems to be "driver not loading problem" because nvidia-xsetting
said that I don't use nvidia drivers (which btw I find really weird because lsmod
says nvidia kernel module is indeed loaded), and games didn't load either.
I can "fix" this by doing modprobe nouveau
, but with nouveau 3D games like 0 A.D. are broken.
Any ideas? I'm out of them.
Best Answer
I solved it. Problem was that nvidia cards for notebooks (I got geforce 635M) require bumblebee:
After reboot run your games ( 0ad for example ) like this:
Works like charm.