If you are looking to install the latest NVIDIA driver on your Acer Aspire 5739G running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, you will need to do the following:

1. Download the driver

2. Reboot your machine into recovery mode and run

$ sudo sh DRIVER-PACKAGE-NAME.run

3. Reboot, again and run

$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

add the line:

Option         “ModeValidation” “NoTotalSizeCheck”

to the “Screen” section

Here is what the Screen section of my xorg.conf now looks like:

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

You should now be able to take full advantage of your graphics card, run Compiz, set up TwinView, etc.

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