I re-installed 10.04 on a different disk, and found that a fresh install used the nouveau driver as well and that it too exhibited the screen garbage problem. However, with 10.04, selecting "hardware drivers" offers the Nvidia accelerated graphics driver (version 96), which, once activated, works correctly with no garbage.
So, the following driver works OK: jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ lsmod | grep -i nv nvidia 4701243 32 agpgart 31724 2 nvidia,intel_agp jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -i nvidia nvidia-173-modaliases install nvidia-96 install nvidia-96-modaliases install nvidia-common install nvidia-current-modaliases install nvidia-settings install jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ dpkg --status nvidia-96 Package: nvidia-96 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: restricted/misc Installed-Size: 21868 Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 Version: 96.43.17-0ubuntu1 Provides: xserver-xorg-video-6 Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0), make, sed (>> 3.0), dkms, linux-libc-dev, libc6-dev, linux-headers-generic | linux-headers, patch, acpid, libc6 (>= 2.1), libx11-6 (>= 0), libxext6 (>= 0) Recommends: nvidia-settings Description: NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library The binary driver provide optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL applications via a direct-rendering X Server. AGP, PCIe, SLI, TV-out and flat panel displays are also supported. . This package also includes the source for building the kernel module required by the Xorg driver. . GPUs ranging from GeForce series 2 (except for GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro, GeForce2 Ti and GeForce2 Ultra) to Geforce series 7 are supported. . See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-96/README.txt.gz for a complete list of supported GPUs and PCIIDs jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ And the following drivers DO NOT work correctly on this hardware: jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -i nouv libdrm-nouveau1 install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau install jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ dpkg --status xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 272 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu5 Replaces: xserver-xorg (<< 6.8.2-35) Provides: xserver-xorg-video-6 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.16), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900) Description: X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver (experimental) This driver for the X.Org X server (see xserver-xorg for a further description) provides support for NVIDIA Riva, TNT, GeForce, and Quadro cards. . Although the nouveau project aims to provide full 3D support it is not yet complete, and these packages do not include any 3D support. Users requiring 3D support should use the non-free "nvidia" driver. . This package is built from the FreeDesktop.org xf86-video-nouveau driver. Homepage: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]> jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ dpkg --status libdrm-nouveau1 Package: libdrm-nouveau1 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 452 Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Source: libdrm Version: 2.4.18-1ubuntu3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3) Description: Userspace interface to nouveau-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime This library implements the userspace interface to the nouveau-specific kernel DRM services. DRM stands for "Direct Rendering Manager", which is the kernelspace portion of the "Direct Rendering Infrastructure" (DRI). The DRI is currently used on Linux to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL drivers. Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]> jo...@johnn-laptop:~$ -- X display shows garbage w/ nouveau & Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP rev a1 (NV28) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
