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 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 Ubuntu > doesn't want to package so many drivers, why don't they leave out the > oldest drivers instead of these- it doesn't make any sense. Surely there > must be more middle aged GForce cards out there than TNT and Riva cards, > Right? I know it makes for more work but I hope the Ubuntu maintainers > realize their alienating alot of people by stripping that out. > > Anyway, for those who are still struggling with getting their system > running again- here's what I did: > > 1. Installed Feisty from scratch (I didn't have all day to fix it once it > turned into a boat anchor) > 2. Dowloaded NVIDIA's 96XX drivers > 3. Installed LibC6 development package from Adept- needed for driver > install. > 4. Log out of KDE and from the KDM login screen- selected console login > to get out of the X and to a console. > 5. Run the NVIDIA installer, it will complain about some pgk-config thing > being missing but it doesn't seem to be a critical problem, just proceed > until > it says that the driver is installed. > 6. Reboot... system will come up with NVIDIA accelerated driver working > like a charm. > > Note, I had a bear of a time getting the resolution and refresh rates to > be what I wanted after the install using Ubuntu's screen resolution > control panel. Then I discovered that the NVIDIA installer puts it's own > control tool in the KDE menu (under system or utils I think, I'm not in > front of that computer right now). Heres what I had to do to fix that... > > 1. Set the resolution with NVIDIA's provided control panel. > 2. Go into ubuntu's video control panel, it'll show some crazy refresh > rate like 150hz or something, just ignore that and don't change anything > there. I changed the power > saver setting to make the control panel savable. If you don't do this, > you may find that Ubuntu overwrites the settings changes you did in the > NVIDIA control panel > next time you reboot. > > Of course, if you have a LCD you probably don't need to worry about > that. > > -- > MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96430 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- 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 https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
