Ubuntu won't use my nvidia driver

Posted by Spencer on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Spencer
Published on 2012-05-30T16:01:03Z Indexed on 2012/05/30 17:00 UTC
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I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a laptop that has both Intel Integrated Graphics and an Nvidia Geforce 540m. I installed the drivers properly, but I can't manage to actually use them. I'm stuck in 640x480 resolution and the drivers aren't detected anywhere. Each time I open the Nvidia settings menu it says:

"You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (Just run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root), and restart the X server."

^Doing so does not help.

Anybody have any ideas?

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