Natty: nvidia driver as activated but not currently in use

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:44 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:

> immediately after doing a fresh install of the OS I run the "Additional Drivers"
> tool to install any required proprietary drivers.  When I try to install:
>     NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (current version) [Recommended]
> It reports that the driver is "activated but not currently in use", whatever
> that means.

There has been several occasions I had to run that several times before
it activated. No idea why, but persistence seems to win out. Can't hurt,
give that a whirl. :) Ric

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