I also have the same chipset (geforce4 go 440) on a Dell Inspiron 8200, and it's detected by restricted-manager who proposes nvidia-legacy (only 7xxx, that has a bug on my system, but that's another bug report).
Could you check by booting a recent daily desktop live CD if the problem still exist for you? http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ Thanks -- Please ship proper modaliases for nvidia, fglrx & co https://launchpad.net/bugs/93209 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs