I have the exactly same problem. nvidia-glx was working nicely, but went from version 1.0.96xx to 1.0.97xx today and I get that in my Xorg.log:
============================ (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 1.0-9755 Mon Feb 26 23:23:13 PST 2007 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go 32M GPU installed in this system is (WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers. (WW) NVIDIA(0): Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for (WW) NVIDIA(0): more information. The 1.0-9755 NVIDIA driver will ignore (WW) NVIDIA(0): this GPU. Continuing probe... (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found ============================ Trouble is, I can't install a "96xx" legacy package - the provided legacy package is at 7xxx, which seems like "underkill" for my middle- aged graphics card (that package itself recommends using nvidia-glx over itself). I use "vesa" as my driver now -- since "nv" seems to frequently freeze screen / keyboard (or maybe it was my shaky update with the Laptop suddenly running out of power in the middle of it). Archive: http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ Date: Tuesday, March 27 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 Uname: Linux ulap 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux -- nvidia driver updated, but will not work with GeForce4 https://launchpad.net/bugs/97009 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
