upgrade to ubuntu 9.04 graphics not working

Asked by Marcus

i recently upgraded to ubuntu 9.04 from 8.10, everything works fine except for the graphics, it looks stretched and weird. i go to hardware drivers and select a driver but nothing happens, i go to nvidia and download the drivers and it says it can't open them, what do i do to rectifiy this problem bc everything else works fine. i have an hp laptop with an nvidia geforce go 7400 card

thanks
marcus

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kernowyon (kernowyon) said :
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System > Administration > Hardware Drivers. Is there no mention of a restricted driver there which you can install?

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Marcus (marcusm100) said :
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When you go to hardware drivers it has the drivers which you can enable with one of them recomended, I go to activate it and nothing happens, when I log on it says that graphics driver not there

Marcus

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Marcus (marcusm100) said :
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does anyone have any ideas?

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any ideas?

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Marcus (marcusm100) said :
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