These days on Feisty there are three different nvidia packages (nvidia- glx-legacy, nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-new) corresponding to the three sets of drivers NVIDIA maintains (71xx, 96xx, 97xx) roughly corresponding to Geforce 2 and below (except for the 2MX/2Go), Geforce 3 - Geforce 4, and finally Geforce 5000s and above. The detailed list can be found on http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-a.html but there just isn't the room to squeeze a detailed card list into every description.
The good news is that the description for nvidia-glx has changed to "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." The bad news is it doesn't mention that Geforce 5000s and above now have a separate driver. Hopefully restricted-manager will save most users the pain of having to go driver hunting themselves though. -- package description of nvidia-glx(-legacy) is misleading, both drivers not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/70092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
