I never used the nvidia drivers installed by apt or whatever pkg manager has in its repositories. I always get it from nvidia.com and do a manual install.
Besides, if I'm understanding it correctly, only " legacy " cards will be affected by that, being those GeForce4 and older. Yours is a GeForce 7 series (7200 GS) and shouldn't be affected by this. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2008 02:52 pm, Dante Lanznaster wrote: > > > that card is supported with nvidia proprietary drivers. > > Which is why I quoted this: > > > http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810 > > > > <snip> > > nVidia "legacy" video support > > > > The 71 and 96 series of proprietary nVidia drivers, as provided by the > > nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-glx packages in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, are not > > compatible with the X.Org included in Ubuntu 8.10. Users with the > > nVidia TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra, GeForce, GeForce2, GeForce3, and GeForce4 > > chipsets are affected and will be transitioned on upgrade to the free > > nv driver instead. This driver does not support 3D acceleration. > > </snip> > > Do you mean I will be able to get the proper proprietary drivers from > some other website? > > Thanks. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services > P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: > "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
