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NVidia Drivers in Mythbuntu 8.10

I've just discovered a brilliant tool. Here's what happened. I was bored and my MythTv box didn't have any upcoming recordings for a few days so i thought it was a good time to upgrade to the latest version, MythBuntu 8.10. The update went well... except for the NVidia drivers. On reboot I kept getting a message saying that Ubuntu was running in "Low graphics mode". First thing I tried was going to "Hardware Drivers" to activate the restricted NVidia drivers. I selected the recommended version, click Activate and put in my password. It seems to go ok till I noticed that it still said "This driver is not activated". I did some research and tried re-installing jockey - no luck. I uninstall everything NVidia related in the package manager and re-installed - still no luck. Here's where my discovery comes in, I found this forum ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281358 ) which mentioned envy . I then went to the site here http://