[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-05-19 Thread cement_head
botbotdingzip, you have to switch the xorg.conf to read nvidia from nv and reboot. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-05-18 Thread botbotdingzip
fix released? Just installed the nvidia-legacy-glx and still no acceleration?? Worked fine in earlier versions of kubuntu. I have a GF 2 MX 200 like alot of others. Just install Feisty?? Get real. Fix what you broke before you start spraying releases please. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-05-02 Thread Tristan Schmelcher
For people who are still having problems and who mistakenly installed nvidia-glx-new before switching to nvidia-glx, see here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted- modules-2.6.20/+bug/106217 -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-05-01 Thread fishlet
That's all fine and good... but it didn't work for me. Hence, the additional instructions. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-30 Thread fishlet
+1 to the this is a critical bug side. I ran the distribution update tool and ended up with a boat anchor. Installed from scratch and applied the GLX drivers and ended up with a boat anchor again, could not even log in to the system :-( I have a GForce 4 card, not new but not old by any means. If

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-30 Thread Matthew Hughes
good god man. read the bloody thread. there are no cards left out anymore. It's been fixed for a couple of weeks. On 30/04/07, fishlet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 to the this is a critical bug side. I ran the distribution update tool and ended up with a boat anchor. Installed from scratch and

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-18 Thread missmomo0911
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 64MB...still have problems,I use command like follow: sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy sudo nvidia-glx-config enable sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf change nv to nvidia,crtl+alt+space...just can show 800*600 dpi... I have report this bug three times...what's going on

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-18 Thread Vangelis Tasoulas
Ben Collins said on 2007-04-10: The new lrm has 9631 back as the defauly nvidia-glx package set. There is now a new nvidia-glx-new package set for 9755. This was chosen because it offered the least surprise for upgrades. People who need (or want) the new 9755 driver should install

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-18 Thread Albert Abril
I have the same problem that missmomo0911: With a nvidia GeForce 440 MX 64Mb. Sorry for those who doesn't like to see the same message again and again, but it's the only way to confirm the bug. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-18 Thread missmomo0911
I have remove nvidia-glx-legacy,and install nvidia-glx,it's work now. I am sorry that I don't notice that nvidia-glx could get it work.Thank you very much. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-18 Thread Vangelis Tasoulas
missmomo0911 said: I have remove nvidia-glx-legacy,and install nvidia-glx,it's work now. I am sorry that I don't notice that nvidia-glx could get it work.Thank you very much. You`re welcome :) It is nice it works for you too ;) -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-16 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Can people still having issues / suggestions spin them off into their own bug rather than overloading this one? Thanks. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-15 Thread eppy 1
How do I get nvidia-glx to install the NVIDIA XServer Settings menu item under 'ApplicationsSystem Tools'? cement_head: you can do this easily in your menu-editor. the command line is: nvidia-settings oh i want to leave a big thanks here to all the people who made 9631 available again!

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-14 Thread missmomo0911
Still same problem like Enola Gay's,My video card is NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 64MB,and I use nvidia-glx-legacy (nvidia-glx don't work with my card),but the screen can't show higher or lower dots per inch ,it can just show 800*600 dpi... -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-12 Thread jdriessen
I have a Nvidia Geforce4 420 Go 32MB. the nvidia-glx driver (9631) doesn't work on my system. (although it is the latest driver to support my card stated by Nvidia.com) I get a blank screen after boot. I installed the driver via restricted Drivers Manager today. on a fresh install of Feisty

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-12 Thread jdriessen
in response to my previous post those of you having similar problems if you have a Geforce4 420 Go 32MB. the 9631 driver is looking for a CRT monitor and not and LCD (those of you having the problem on LCD monitors) to fix this: edit your xorg.conf go to Section Screen below defaultdepth,

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-12 Thread K.Mandla
Hmm. No luck with my Geforce4 440 Go 64Mb. Thus far, patching the 8776 driver is the only thing that has worked for me. Thanks for the tip, though. Cheers! -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-12 Thread zeddock
I had to completely reinstall the OS but afterwards, it worked. Desktop Effects and everything. Looking pretty good. zeddock -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-12 Thread Enola Gay
I can confirm this. Only nvidia glx legacy lets X start with Geforce4 440 Go 64Mb but only with a resolution of 800x600 instead of 1600x1200. Nvidia-glx seems to start X but the screen doesn't show anyhting. Is there anything planned to fix this or is the only solution nv or patching

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-12 Thread Justin J Stark
Works great for me with my geforce4 mx440se. Good work guys. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread anti_pop
cement_head: you can do this easily in your menu-editor. the command line is: nvidia-settings oh i want to leave a big thanks here to all the people who made 9631 available again! -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread cement_head
Yep, that's what I did, but... It's a small bug that this is not installed as part of nvidia-glx - CH -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread Olivier
Hello, I don't know if you noticed it but there is a new package in the ubuntu repository, it is called nvidia-glx-new and it it the nvidia driver version 1.0.9755. The old nvidia-glx package is back to nvidia driver version 1.0.9631. So that should fix this issue. Thank you very much

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread cement_head
Hi Oliver, I don't think so...going to the 9755 driver will bugger the whole X server (again), at least on my card (nVIDIA GeForceGo 2). Manual install of the 1.0-9631 driver from nvidia's website installed the XServer Setting control menu item. Using Ubuntu's nvidia-glx package does not. This

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread Steveire
I'm also having a problem with an nvidia geforce 420go. I'm trying to make a support thread here(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=405959), but not getting much in the way of leads. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread mike
The new nvidia-glx package works for my Nvidia GeForce 3somethingorother. Cheers for making 9631 available again. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread zeddock
I want to say Thanx! I am on a Dell Latitude D800 with nVidia GeForce4 Go 4200 Ti AGP8. Upon a first try yesterday night, I could not use the 96xx driver. (I ended up with a blank screen) This morning I have done a complete reinstall using the beta ISO. On first boot after the install the

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread DaveAbrahams
I seem to now have the right drivers installed, but that's apparently not enough to make desktop effects work with my GeForce 2 Go. I can get beryl to work but everything is so slow (like 1 frame every 20 sec) as to be unusable. It's not too surprising because glxgears doesn't run smoothly when

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-11 Thread Albert Abril
Dave Abrahms, there had been changes with nvidia-glx packages. Now, there are three different packages of nvidia-glx: · nvidia-glx · nvidia-glx-new · nvidia-glx-legacy Maybe you have the wrong package for your card. Check what should be your choice. Maybe it's the cause of your problem. If

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Ben Collins
The new lrm has 9631 back as the defauly nvidia-glx package set. There is now a new nvidia-glx-new package set for 9755. This was chosen because it offered the least surprise for upgrades. People who need (or want) the new 9755 driver should install nvidia-glx-new. ** Changed in:

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread zeddock
Going to look right now! Thanx! zeddock -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread cement_head
Thankyou to Mr. BenCollins and the entire Ubuntu Kernel Team - CH -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread zeddock
I want to add Thanx! first... I am still in limbo even after the fix. This may be a consequence of my being too new to know if *I* have hosed up something or the fix is missing the mark. Please, tell me what to do to test this appropriately? I have tried several ways but every time I install

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Tom Haddon
Zeddock, I had a similar problem because my kernel modules were the wrong version. Just do sudo aptitude search nvidia. Anything that's marked as installed (with an i as the first column), uninstall it - sudo aptitude remove ... - this will prompt you to also uninstall restricted-modules (or at

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Albert Abril
I have the same problem that Zaddock and Tom Haddon. When I exec 'Restricted Drivers Managers' it tell me to install linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic . This package seems not to be updated at the repositories yet. For now I have linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-12-generic, and I'm

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread zeddock
It seems to get the right driver, but when it is enabled, meaning nvidia replaces nv in the xorg.conf file, X bombs! Code: Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0-7184, but this X module has the version 1.0-9631 I have tried to go back to .13, and .12, but X will still

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Arthur Peters
I had similar problems to the ones that other people are having. For me they were related to having installed the NVidia driver using the NVidia installer. I solved them by uninstalling using the Nvidia installer and then reinstalling the ubuntu packages (nvidia-glx, linux-restricted-

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread zeddock
So, if I do a completely new installation it should work correctly? zeddock -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Ori Avtalion
The nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-new packages have too-similar descriptions: glx: supports (--grammar error) the newer GeForce, nForce and Quadro families of NVIDIA chipsets. glx-new: support the newer GeForce, nForce and Quadro families of NVIDIA chipsets. These should be updated a bit with more

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread zeddock
I agree. But I have other problems too. zeddock -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Albert Abril
Hi Arthur. You said that had installed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-14-generic. This package isn't in my repositories, (and not in others that I tested). Could you post here your sources.list please? I need this package with it's dependencies. Thanks. On 4/10/07, Arthur Peters [EMAIL

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Albert Abril
Ok. Fixed. I had an error with my restricted repositories. Thanks anyway. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Lambros Lambrou
All works fine for me now. Many thanks to Ben Collins and the rest of the Kernel team - you've done a great job in somewhat difficult circumstances! :-) Lambros -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread cement_head
How do I get nvidia-glx to install the NVIDIA XServer Settings menu item under 'ApplicationsSystem Tools'? -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Balderson
Confirmed working for me -- my bug was marked as one of the dupes of this one. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-07 Thread Lutz
This related discussion has an instruction how to install the older driver manually. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=393748page=4 -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread birdflesh
Ben Collins: Many other linux distributions already offer solutions to this matter. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread Ben Collins
The following is a quote from http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-a.html Below are the legacy GPUs that are no longer supported in the unified driver. These GPUs will continue to be maintained through the special legacy NVIDIA GPU driver releases. This

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread David Thulson
This thread makes it appear that they are releasing 96xx series drivers as legacy drivers: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=74a34b9834fb4572543ff4897cbec4b4t=81668 Ben Collins, have you (or anyone else) actually talked to nvidia about what they are planning or are we all just

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread greenhunter
It is CRITICAL. This bug makes my system nearly useless. Can't work with my external monitor and no gaming. The extrem fan activity comming with very slow Xorg 7.2 is getting on my nerves. With the external monitor I was at least able to put the annoying notebook under the tabel. Now I have to

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread zeddock
If too much time passes before we get the 96xx legacy driver into the repos, there will not be a reasonable amount of time to beta it. I do not know how the repositories work exactly but I am wondering if someone can create a repository which could be added to a user's list of repos so the we

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread Dan V
I'd like to see this in Feisty too, are there any processes we can use to heighten awareness to higher ups so they know what's going on? -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread zeddock
Well, this is the process Dan V. I think since the problem has been assigned to the Ubuntu Kernel Team that it will get resolved. I just would like some more transparency into how it is going, which is why I ask for a repository to beta test the 96xx drivers. zeddock -- MASTER: Request for

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread Sam Cater
I have been asked to inform everyone that this bug IS being worked on as we speak, and people can expect a fix soon. There is no need to add more and more comments. Thank you -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread leoquant
sam, +1 -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread cement_head
Hi All, The 9631 driver provides far greater flexibility for twinview setup, such as needed for OO Impress (Powerpoint) presentations - a major application of a laptop in a professional environment...and the reason I use GNU/Linux. It is posssible to do this by manually editing the xorg.conf

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-06 Thread rasz
WOW, I just realized we are not talking GF2-GF3 here, we are talking GF2-FX, that is like 30-40% of ALL Ubuntu Nvidia users +1 for CRITICAL -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-05 Thread David Thulson
Timo Aaltonen (and Ben Collins I suppose), if nothing else the 9631 drivers are 4 months newer than the 7184 series. Here's another good post by an nvidia employee where he mentions the 71xx legacy branch and a 96xx legacy branch:

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-04 Thread James
Hi I've read through all the comments on this bug so won't add anything more other than to say it did effect my laptop running a Geforce4 4200 Go negatively when i went along and installed the latest nvidia-glx in Feisty Beta A point I would like to make that is not covered here is why was I

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-04 Thread Loïc
James, However upset you might be, remember you're using a *DEVELOPMENT* version. I don't think your last 2 questions are worth being posted to this site, so the answers might not. However, for reference: - can a non tech savvy user do the above? If they can't they shouldn't be using a

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-04 Thread David Thulson
We are using a development version to test it and provide feedback to the Ubuntu team. While some of these comments may not be constructive, isn't the whole point of releasing public betas to have this discussion now with a few testers rather than later when it causes problems for many more

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-03 Thread R Morrison
i say its critical... i mean c'mon the nv driver is junk... it looks awful versus the digital vibrance and other features in the nvidia driver... and this affects so many nvidia users... why ship a product with crippled support for many mobile users.. non-sense. - Richard -- MASTER: Request

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-02 Thread Benny Kalbitz
My graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with AGP8x I solved the problem the same way as Lambros Lambrou did: Install nvidia-glx-legacy and add Option AllowGLXWithComposite true to the device-section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-01 Thread belze
Hi, I'm the user who lesft the message in launchpad Nvidia's bug just before you. I suggest you to wait the final release of feisty, I think for that time our problems will be solved, and we don't have to wait so long. Davide. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-04-01 Thread jdriessen
add me to the users affected list... I also need 96xx drivers for my Geforce4 420 Go 32MB... -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-31 Thread belze
Mine GeForce MX 440 is not working correctly with nvidia driver, I must use nv parameter in xorg.conf I hope troubles with 9631 driver will be soon solved, as is written above. Thank you all for your work! -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-31 Thread zeddock
I am a linux newb but I want out of MS for myself and all of my users. We have a fleet af Dell Latitude D800 laptops that use nvidia nv28, GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X, cards. Currently, feisty beta with updates is not handling this well. What is the best course of action for me to take? I will

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-30 Thread eppy 1
I'm sorry, but Nouveau can't come soon enough. Please Ubuntu, package Nouveau as soon as it's even halfway usable. Hopefully by the end of this year...it'll be a long wait I know, but I'm sick of Nvidia's games. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-30 Thread Adam Wood
I just marked bug 97332 as a duplicate of this one. For anyone interested, I was able to make my GeForce4 card work by booting with the 2.6.20-12-generic kernel and related restricted- modules. I then manually installed (dpkg -i nvidia.*9631.deb) and now I'm back to a working desktop with good

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-30 Thread Adam Wood
In response to this post by Ben Collins: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/96430/comments/51 ==quote== Can you understand my issue with this now? No, not really. I don't understand the issue. I'm confused as to where the number for 38 driver

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-30 Thread Joseph Price
Adam Wood: Lastly, has anyone from Ubuntu tried asking Nvidia to speed up release of the newer legacy package? Please see my latest comment: https://beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/96430/comments/53 They're going to sort it out :) Adam I think its best

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-29 Thread adas
I have the same problem (GF2). I wanted a 96xx because one program (run in wine) required this drivers... -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-29 Thread Joseph Price
I fired off an email to nvidia to clear up a few things and here's the good news: Joseph, Thanks for writing. I believe that its my nvnews post that you've referenced below. Both the 1.0-71xx and 1.0-96xx

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-29 Thread rasz
Thanks to Ben for the news that 9631 will be in Feisty! :) are you sure? his latest post https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/96430/comments/51 still argues with the 3 drivers in repos idea .. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-29 Thread Felix Rabe
rasz wrote: Thanks to Ben for the news that 9631 will be in Feisty! :) are you sure? his latest post https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/96430/comments/51 still argues with the 3 drivers in repos idea .. That's actually not his latest comment on the

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
Same here, todays upgrade installed an nvidia driver kernel module that don't support my nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] So I went back to use the nvidia-legacy package. Unfortunately the driver included with this doesn't support my card properly, I get a garbled screen. So I fell

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread giuseppe
My gf4 mx440 card has the same problem...It doesn't work with neither 97** drivers nor with the legacy one. It's no long time I use linux and I'm not able at all to solve the problem, now i stay with the nv drivers without 3d and composite. Hoping in something better... -- MASTER: Request for

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread Timo Aaltonen
David: I fail to see how that thread (release announcement from December) makes it look like that version will be supported in the future.. Birdflesh: what distributions are you referring to? -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 --

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread birdflesh
Timo Aaltonen: Arch Linux for example: http://archlinux.org/packages/search/?repo=allcategory=x11q=nvidia -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread Miłosz Kosobucki
Nvidia is probably going to support 96xx line same way ax 71xx. If they weren't going to support it they would probably write 9631, not 96xx. It wouldn't be wise to support people with very old cards and left the ones with much newer hardware. I think that indeed we need three packages for

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread Arthur Peters
Sorry to add more traffic on this bug, but I think I have something to add that no one has said. Perhaps a Multiverse package could contain the 96xx drivers until it has been established whether they will be supported by NVidia? That way Ubuntu does not have to worry about supporting the drivers

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread Olivier
Hello, I guess what you are looking for is here : http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=81668. I think this link give a good overview with all the stickies post http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=forumid=14. Hope this help. Thanks. O.D. 2007/3/28, Timo

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread David Thulson
I went ahead and asked nvidia: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=88867 They are supporting the 96xx series just like the 71xx series. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread Lucas Goss
Confirmed? http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=88867 Never assume, get the facts. These are critical for my use of Ubuntu! -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread rasz
netllama - NVIDIA Corporation: I'm not aware of anyone representing Ubuntu contacting NVIDIA to get an official statement on driver support, so I'm not sure why they think that anything is unsupported. Please have them email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither the 1.0-71xx nor the 1.0-96xx legacy driver

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
I had a nice long rant for here, but I'll skip it. A) We already said we'd include the drivers for feisty. There's no further need for complaining. No one else needs to comment to this bug report. You will get 9631 drivers before feisty releases. B) This is proprietary software. We have no

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread PurpleSkunk
Thanks for clarification from both parts. Ben Collins wrote: We just provided the latest two drivers that nVidia had available on their web site (7184 and 9755). If they had posted links to three drivers, we'd have provided that from the beginning. If that is true (and I trust you), I am going

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread adammichaelroach
Ben: : A) We already said we'd include the drivers for feisty. Actually it was only stated that it was very likely. : B) This is proprietary software. We have no control over what the vendor does. We do our best, but these are the breaks. If you don't like this sort of thing happening, complain

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
: We just provided the latest two drivers that nVidia had available on their web site (7184 and 9755). If they had posted links to three drivers, we'd have provided that from the beginning. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html So we should distribute all 38 driver

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread jtlb
I have the same problem and when I tried to use the old one instead it crashed xorg! I have a TNT 2 Riva 64, i know it's old but usefull. I DO NOT want to compile it myself: The last time it crashed X. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 --

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread Suzan
Go back to 9631 is a bad idea, because the new nVidia cards (8000) only work with the new 9755 driver. So updating was the right decision. The problem is, that now 3 trees of nvidia-drivers are available: 97xx - for newer cards (at the moment in nvidia-glx) 96xx - for cards in the middleage (no

Re: [Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread leoquant
Suzan wrote: Go back to 9631 is a bad idea, because the new nVidia cards (8000) only work with the new 9755 driver. So updating was the right decision. The problem is, that now 3 trees of nvidia-drivers are available: 97xx - for newer cards (at the moment in nvidia-glx) 96xx - for cards in

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread leoquant
this is no longer a medium problem. critical i would suggest! -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread Kai Springer
Yes I fully agree to the degree that a solution to the 3 drivers problem makes the thing critical. My system now is useless and needs to be reinstalled because I even can't log into terminal anymore. I do not agree that those desktop effects might be useless. They worked for me great and I'd

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread Johan Kiviniemi
As the PCI ID lists in the nVidia READMEs tend to be incomplete, attached is a complete list of PCI IDs supported by the three drivers. The hex number after the 'v' matches the vendor ID and the number after the 'd' matches the device ID. In the list, the module name 'nvidia' stands for the 97xx

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread greenhunter
I didn't mean that the desktop effects are useless and should be dropped at all. Just deffered till 7.10. But there are only 4 weeks left untill the final comes out and they effects are truly non essential, compered to this problem here and the sluggy xorg. Of course I'd like effects on my screen

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread rasz
I posted first in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/96941 so again : LARGE ( http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html just look at Steam statistics, there are ton of GF3-GF4 users, ~5-10%, and those are ppl playing games =have huge incentive to

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread Wolfgang Silbermayr
Renders system completely usable for me too... Lucky that I know how to get things running again. For a newbie this is a catastrophy if video cards that are not too old (like my three-year-old GeForce4 Ti) suddenly can't be run without 3d acceleration. +1 for CRITICAL from me too. -- MASTER:

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread PurpleSkunk
Yes, +1 for CRITICAL since this issue affects many users. It should be solved ASAP in my opinion. -- MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96430 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 96430] Re: MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Collins
We are investigating if we want to include these modules. The fact that nvidia is no longer planning to maintain the 9631 driver doesn't help the case. We have to contend with possible bugs, mainly security related issues. Not only that we have to contend with making the driver work with our

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