I'm affected by this as well. I'm posting this at work so I don't necessarily have access to a lshw of my home computer right now, but using a Dell Dimension 2400 with a Geforce FX 5200 and at present, the most recent release of the 173 driver available to Pangolin 12.04 is 173.14.30. The reported fix is in 173.14.35, however this isn't available through apt-get at present for Pangolin (seems to be part of Quantal). This driver has been out for more than a month; what keeps it from simply being available via apt-get for Ubuntu 12.04 users?
There's a really varied set of potential solutions out there right now; people are recommending everything from rolling back the OS to 11.xx, to modifying Pangolin's installation of Xorg, to pressing users to simply update their hardware. Meanwhile the .35 driver claims to solve many of the issues that old machines may be having, but there's a dearth of information as to how to actually install the driver from a binary file - let alone how to reverse the process if it doesn't work, so users such as myself are sort of in a driverless limbo. It would be nice to have the driver readily available via apt-get for Pangolin users; in this way the installation and removal would be very easily done through apt-get. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990539 Title: Jockey incorrectly offers nvidia-current for Geforce FX/5k-series cards To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/990539/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
