nvidia driver, resolution and shockwave flash issues

Hello!

What graphics card are you using?

Phil

i used so many different methods of solving, i have very many commands in terminal. the last one was: sudo apt-get --purge remove `dpkg -l | grep nvidia | awk {'print $2'} | grep -v nvidia-common`
i was using nouveau before i think that is default. but i couldnt ever watch videos online. thats when i stated tinkering and here i am.

richie@ricPC ~ $ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)
richie@ricPC ~ $ ^C
richie@ricPC ~ $ sudo lshw -C video
  *-display UNCLAIMED ~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=64 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
       resources: memory:ee000000-eeffffff memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:effe0000-efffffff

if it helps this is my xorg.conf

nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 319.37 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-03) Wed Jul 3 19:35:58 PDT 2013

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

richie@ricPC ~ $ lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 15 Olivia
Release: 15
Codename: olivia
Linux ricPC 3.8.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 1 16:36:13 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux

Mint is not supported in any of the Ubuntu channels. Its support is entirely separate.

I suggest you post here:
http://forums.linuxmint.com