+1 to the "this is a critical bug" side. I ran the distribution update
tool and ended up with a boat anchor. Installed from scratch and applied
the GLX drivers and ended up with a boat anchor again, could not even
log in to the system :-(
I have a GForce 4 card, not new but not old by any means. If Ubuntu
doesn't want to package so many drivers, why don't they leave out the
oldest drivers instead of these- it doesn't make any sense. Surely there
must be more middle aged GForce cards out there than TNT and Riva cards,
Right? I know it makes for more work but I hope the Ubuntu maintainers
realize their alienating alot of people by stripping that out.
Anyway, for those who are still struggling with getting their system
running again- here's what I did:
1. Installed Feisty from scratch (I didn't have all day to fix it once it
turned into a boat anchor)
2. Dowloaded NVIDIA's 96XX drivers
3. Installed LibC6 development package from Adept- needed for driver install.
4. Log out of KDE and from the KDM login screen- selected console login to get
out of the X and to a console.
5. Run the NVIDIA installer, it will complain about some pgk-config thing being
missing but it doesn't seem to be a critical problem, just proceed until
it says that the driver is installed.
6. Reboot... system will come up with NVIDIA accelerated driver working like a
charm.
Note, I had a bear of a time getting the resolution and refresh rates to
be what I wanted after the install using Ubuntu's screen resolution
control panel. Then I discovered that the NVIDIA installer puts it's own
control tool in the KDE menu (under system or utils I think, I'm not in
front of that computer right now). Heres what I had to do to fix that...
1. Set the resolution with NVIDIA's provided control panel.
2. Go into ubuntu's video control panel, it'll show some crazy refresh rate
like 150hz or something, just ignore that and don't change anything there. I
changed the power
saver setting to make the control panel savable. If you don't do this, you
may find that Ubuntu overwrites the settings changes you did in the NVIDIA
control panel
next time you reboot.
Of course, if you have a LCD you probably don't need to worry about
that.
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MASTER: Request for new-legacy nvidia drivers (9631)
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