Hardy Heron is one of the best version from Ubuntu, but still i had issues with the graphics card driver for NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS on DELL laptop.

Initially the desktop effects didn work.

I tried to enable the graphics card from Hardware Drivers tool in System -> Administration.

It installed nvidia-glx-new and the other necessary packages.After restarting the system, the screen got freezed after the re-booting the system, before the login screen came up.

I uninstalled all the drivers and tried to install the grapchics driver using EasyNG.EasyNG installed the NVIDIA Driver 169.xx.xx version(i am not sure about the version number).But still it didn work.

After googling for the solution , i found that there was beta version NVIDIA Driver 173.xx.xx, even that didnt help.

On 28th May 2008 NVIDIA released the final version of Driver 173.14.05.i tried again installing the latest version.

Now Desktop effect works perfectly on my laptop.

I am too late to blog this , but still this would help someone out there.

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