Thanks for this, seems to have worked pretty dam well! here is my
result, I guess I will reboot/restart xserver and find out for sure ..
sudo apt-get install nvidia-96
[sudo] password for devbox:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
nvidia-96-modaliases
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nvidia-96
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,299 kB of archives.
After this operation, 26.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cschieli/bug741930/ubuntu/ natty/main nvidia-96
i386 96.43.20-0ubuntu1~athome1 [9,299 kB]
Fetched 9,299 kB in 1min 4s (145 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 205695 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nvidia-96-modaliases ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-96.
(Reading database ... 205693 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-96 (from .../nvidia-96_96.43.20-0ubuntu1~athome1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-96 (96.43.20-0ubuntu1~athome1) ...
update-alternatives: renaming grub_fb_blacklist slave link from
/usr/share/grub-gfxpayload-lists/blacklist/10_nvidia-current to
/usr/share/grub-gfxpayload-lists/blacklist/10_nvidia-96.
Loading new nvidia-96-96.43.20 DKMS files...
Building only for 2.6.38-10-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.38-10-generic
Done.
nvidia-96.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.38-10-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod
DKMS: install Completed.
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_NZ.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
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[natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met
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