[LinuxUsers] Soul of a new machine...

[Jeff Lasman]

On Saturday 06 December 2008 02:52 pm, Dante Lanznaster wrote:

> that card is supported with nvidia proprietary drivers.

Which is why I quoted this:

> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810
>
> <snip>
> nVidia "legacy" video support
>
> The 71 and 96 series of proprietary nVidia drivers, as provided by the
> nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-glx packages in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, are not
> compatible with the X.Org included in Ubuntu 8.10. Users with the
> nVidia TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra, GeForce, GeForce2, GeForce3, and GeForce4
> chipsets are affected and will be transitioned on upgrade to the free
> nv driver instead. This driver does not support 3D acceleration.
> </snip>

Do you mean I will be able to get the proper proprietary drivers from 
some other website?

Thanks.

Jeff
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