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Old January 20th, 2010 #4
chrismine
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Re: Nvidia driver activated but not currently in use ??
I had the same problem. I removed all nvidia drivers with Synaptic.Then I installed again from command line - sudo apt-get installnvidia-current and ran sudo nvidia-xconfig and it worked.
Hope it helps.