hi im testing linux mint debian

i tried to install the nvidia driver with the smxi script, everything went fine,
but nothing really happened

i first tried to install nvidia-newest 270... the script said: install successful, but nothing happened when i restarted,
then i tried to install nvidia-debian the same happened script said: install successful, but after the restart no changes compiz isnt working, awn also no effects what so ever.

im running kernel 2.6.38-2
nvidia gt 330m

should i try nvidia-nouveau

or something else
Need some advice??
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Your statement: 'nothing really happened' has almost no meaning.

If the driver install worked, then you start X and check if Xorg is being run by nvidia, like so:
inxi -G

If you see the nvidia driver, whatever you believe should be happening is largely irrelevant to the fact that nvidia is running it.

If it doesn't, that means there is something else wrong, and that something else in my experience is almost always an improperly installed grub multiboot scenario, that's an issues that is 100% user error and I won't help debug it because it just means the user didn't read the how to do multibooting then tried to do it. That improper install results in the driver being installed to a non running kernel, usually.

So fire up inxi, run: inxi -d
see what kernel is really running, see what driver is really being used, and stop speculating.

Also paste your inxi -d output here so we don't have to guess either.
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$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card nVidia GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1920x1080@50.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce GT 330M/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 260.19.44

$ inxi -d
System: Host vaio Kernel 2.6.38-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7 Q 720 (-HT-MCP-) clocked at 933.00 MHz
Graphics: Card nVidia GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1920x1080@50.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce GT 330M/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 260.19.44
Disks: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (11.3% used)
Info: Processes 175 Uptime 9 min Memory 507.0/5968.5MB Client Shell inxi 1.4.12

when i boot i see the nvidia logo.
just thought wenn everything was successfully installed, the desktop effects should work.

thx
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OK, so your issue is how to enable compiz desktop effects, NOT whether the nvidia driver was successfully installed, which it was.

this is a configuration issue, not an smxi issue.

i don't use compiz and don't know how to enable it, but you should be able to find the answer through google search: "compiz enable desktop effects"
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