[LinuxUsers] Soul of a new machine...

[Dante Lanznaster]

I never used the nvidia drivers installed by apt or whatever pkg manager has
in its repositories. I always get it from nvidia.com and do a manual
install.

Besides, if I'm understanding it correctly, only " legacy " cards will be
affected by that, being those GeForce4 and older. Yours is a GeForce 7
series (7200 GS) and shouldn't be affected by this.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Jeff Lasman <jplists at nobaloney.net> wrote:

> 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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