I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally, I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card.
Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live CD, but the resultant system never got past GRUB. Jaunty worked fine, 1st time. The Hardware-drivers tool is unable to detect this old graphics card, but I googled for more instructions. I checked what version of nVidia's drivers support a Riva TNT2 and it's the v71 build. So, I installed nvidia-glx-71. This went smoothly. On reboot, there is no nVidia logo, but the display seems a lot snappier. Scrolling is now lightning fast, windows move quickly if a little jerkily, and resizing them is smooth. But as some posts led me to fear, the Display applet now can't change screen resolution. Neither will nVidia's X Settings tool, which merely says that I'm not using an nVidia driver. No OpenGL screensavers work and I can't enable desktop effects. How can one tell if one is or isn't using the nVidia driver? My xorg.conf file is empty. And if, as I suspect, I am, then why won't OpenGL work? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
