help for hardware drivers

any help please

after you install the hardware drivers for nvidia use the nvidia x server to set and save .

i do that but is not help any another idea please

Try from terminal Applications→ Accessories → Terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge reinstall nvidia-current
sudo reboot

the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter

after i do the sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge reinstall nvidia-current
he give me that answer E: Invalid operation reinstall
thanx for return

Sotty my typo, the command is:

Try from terminal Applications→ Accessories → Terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install nvidia-current
sudo reboot

the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter

my freind is the same problem when i reboot i make the two times the resolution back the same is back to 800x600 but i need and configure to 1280x800
also i go to additional drivers in the active wrote this driver is activated but not currently in use

Can you give us the result of this terminal command:

lspci | grep -i vga

and

lsb_release -rd

Thank you

freedom@freedom-HP-Pavilion-dv6700-Notebook-PC:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1)
freedom@freedom-HP-Pavilion-dv6700-Notebook-PC:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
freedom@freedom-HP-Pavilion-dv6700-Notebook-PC:~$

anybody can help me? please

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-nv

no body can help me please?

when i go to the monitor i have that massege
it apears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool do you want to use your graphics driver vendor's tool instead?

Thanks GREG T., that solved my question.