[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 drivers in Maverick

2011-06-28 Thread Larry Woodring
So, what's the current situation? Will these drivers be supported with an update to Maverick now? What does the invalid status in xorg- server mean? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 drivers in Maverick

2010-11-19 Thread Larry Woodring
apo, you are 100% on target. I could go through all of the gyrations to patch my drivers using the posted solution, but I didn't install Ubuntu because I wanted to spend a lot of time maintaining the machine I use it on. Ubuntu has a great distribution and updating system. It seems pointless

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick

2010-10-18 Thread Larry Woodring
Troy, You're right this is not the forum to complain about the upgrade process. And you're correct that if I had read the release notes, I might have discovered that it would be better to wait. On the other hand, if a release has significant bugs, it might be better to delay the release, or

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick

2010-10-16 Thread Larry Woodring
I'm having the problem, too. One of the reasons I installed Ubuntu on this old PC was that Linux is supposed to run better on older equipment. I had several major problems with my update from 10.04 to 10.10: first, my grub config got messed up and I had to restore it, losing my multi- boot in