Unfortunately there are cards that seem to work only with the nvidia- glx-new driver.
I have a brand new 7600 GS, lspci says: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a1) >From manual playing with feisty beta (apt-get dist-upgraded from edgy) I knew that only the -new package would work (although even that did not work really, I must have got a bad combination of beta packages; but at least the nvidia-glx-new driver did not refuse the device and the nvidia module did load). When re-installing the machine with feisty final (somehow the dist-upgraded state misbelieved to be up-to-date, perhaps just played around to close to the release), I tried out the restricted-manager (nice work by the way!), and although I had the nvidia-glx-new package installed already, the restricted-manager installed nvidia-glx (and of course removed nvidia-glx-new). X did not come up again of course, but xorg.conf has been modified correctly, so after I reinstall nvidia-glx-new via apt-get and without any other manual config of any kind , I now seem to have a perfect situation with 3D support and everything working. After installing some lib32 packages (with reinstallation unavoidable, I finally decided to give the amd64 release a try once again), GoogleEarth (My reference test for the graphics system, and 32bit) runs perfectly and is now not only usable but really fun to play with. -- Restricted-Manager installs older nvidia-glx package (not -new) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106649 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
