Thanks for this, seems to have worked pretty dam well! here is my result, I guess I will reboot/restart xserver and find out for sure ..
sudo apt-get install nvidia-96 [sudo] password for devbox: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: nvidia-96-modaliases The following NEW packages will be installed: nvidia-96 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9,299 kB of archives. After this operation, 26.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cschieli/bug741930/ubuntu/ natty/main nvidia-96 i386 96.43.20-0ubuntu1~athome1 [9,299 kB] Fetched 9,299 kB in 1min 4s (145 kB/s) (Reading database ... 205695 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nvidia-96-modaliases ... Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-96. (Reading database ... 205693 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nvidia-96 (from .../nvidia-96_96.43.20-0ubuntu1~athome1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up nvidia-96 (96.43.20-0ubuntu1~athome1) ... update-alternatives: renaming grub_fb_blacklist slave link from /usr/share/grub-gfxpayload-lists/blacklist/10_nvidia-current to /usr/share/grub-gfxpayload-lists/blacklist/10_nvidia-96. Loading new nvidia-96-96.43.20 DKMS files... Building only for 2.6.38-10-generic Building for architecture i686 Building initial module for 2.6.38-10-generic Done. nvidia-96.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.38-10-generic/updates/dkms/ depmod........ DKMS: install Completed. Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_NZ.utf8.cache... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for python-support ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/741930 Title: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/741930/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
