Thank you very much for your comment. Could it be that the GeForce 1/2 drivers have been moved to the nvidia-glx-legacy package recently? If I'm correct I used to install the non-legacy package for GeForce 2 videocards, and this is the first time I noticed that has changed. Now that we know that the drivers themselves or X.org are not the problem, I think the description of the packages are a problem. Let's compare the package descriptions:
* nvidia-glx * These XFree86 4.x/X.Org binary drivers provide optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL applications via a direct-rendering X Server and support the newer GeForce, nForce and Quadro families of NVIDIA chipsets. AGP, TV-out and flat panel displays are also supported. If you have a TNT, TNT2, or older GeForce, you may need the nvidia-glx- legacy package instead of this one. To enable the driver, run "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable". * nvidia-glx-legacy * These XFree86 4.x/X.Org binary drivers provide optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL applications via a direct-rendering X Server and supports the TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra, GeForce, and GeForce2 chipsets. AGP, TV-out and flat panel displays are also supported. This is the 'legacy' driver for older chipsets. Unless your chipset is explicitly listed in the above paragraph, please use the nvidia-glx driver, which is much more up to date. To enable the driver, run "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable". I only read the description for nvidia-glx. That description does not specify which series of GeForce video cards are "older" and which are "newer". I could not know that I had to use nvidia-glx-legacy if I only read the description of the nvidia-glx package. Only in the description of nvidia-glx-legacy it is mentioned explicitly that I should use legacy if I have a GeForce 1/2 videocard. The nvidia-glx package description should mention this as well. -- package description of nvidia-glx is misleading https://launchpad.net/bugs/70092 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
