Sam, With my (old) GeForce4 MX 4000 board the X.org nv-driver works without a problem. I even succeeded to adapt the modeline command in the xorg.conf file to the resolution 0f 1440x900. I have to try the (old) 96.43.05 nvidia driver but I first have to solve another problem with U 8.04. Joep
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 06:50 +0000, Sam Stern wrote: > Hi All, > > I just ran into this bug as well in ubuntu 8.04 > > lspci -nn |grep VGA > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV28GL [Quadro4 > 980 XGL] [10de:0288] (rev a1) > > no amount of wrangling with nv, nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-new, or nvidia- > glx-legacy would convince the system not to load the "vesa" driver. In > the end I worked around this by downloading the linux32 driver from > nvidia after removing all nvidia packages but the kernel module (trying > to remove nvidia-kernel-common yields a frightening series of > suggestions from apt-get). > > The driver I downloaded, that worked, was: > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.05-pkg1.run > -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
