NVIDIA GeForce 7150 laptop graphics semi-solved

[Husse]

Run this in a terminal

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dmesg | grep NVIDIA

You may not have the latest driver.
In fact if you get a lower version number than 100.14.19 this is the case.
If so get the latest version of Envy by following these steps

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sudo aptitude purge envy
sudo rm ­rf /usr/share/envy 
Edit//ignore this line-really stupid typo sudo apt­get clean
sudo apt-­get clean
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/upload/envy_0.9.7­0ubuntu11_all.deb 
sudo dpkg ­i envy_0.9.7­0ubuntu11_all.deb
rm  envy_0.9.7­0ubuntu11_all.deb

Then uninstall and install the driver again with envy

[Husse]

Sorry for the errors - I think I copied them from the pdf clem posted and it seems that you get extra spaces doing that (or some garbage)
And more importantly the 7150 is not supported
It seems that you are stuck with the "nv" driver
To activate it just see to it that nv is the driver in xorg.conf

[Husse]

I can't use nv either with a 6600 card
Some cards can't use nv
Take a look at nvidias site to be sure
7150 is rather new (right?) so support should come (soon I hope)

[Husse]

Maybe apt-get can install it properly for you instead of Envy?

Right thinking to an extent
A video driver has to be "integrated" in the kernel, so you have to compile a bit - envy takes care of all that
(Sorry for my rather ungeeky language....)

[Guest]

Sorry for the errors - I think I copied them from the pdf clem posted and it seems that you get extra spaces doing that (or some garbage)
And more importantly the 7150 is not supported
It seems that you are stuck with the "nv" driver
To activate it just see to it that nv is the driver in xorg.conf

There are many Laptops from HP and others that use the AMD processor (Turion) that use this "Fused together on a single chip, GeForce 7150M Series GPUs and nForce 630M Series MCPs , the next wave of notebook motherboard GPUs deliver higher performance, proven compatibility, and longer ... Thus on these laptops using the legacy driver is a none starter.