[HLUG] Nvidia drivers no longer working with Ubuntu Edgy or Feisty

[Ralph Jones]

Lo Julian, lo all,

In the hope this is a relevant answer (i.e. I'm hoping you've overlooked
it), have you tried installing the nVidia drivers using automatix
(www.getautomatix.com).

Once you have automatix installed, one of the options/channels available
is to install the graphics drivers for nVidia cards. Unfortunately,
automatix doesn't give any more details than that, (as opposed to
synaptic, where you can a bit of a read as regards the file properties.)

HTH
Ralph


On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 23:03 +0000, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm not so sure if anyone can help, but I've come up against a brick 
> wall on this so looking for suggestions.
> 
> My Ubuntu Edgy installation was fine with the std Ubuntu method of 
> installation of Nvidia drivers rather than using Nvidia's own package 
> install which you compile modules against your kernel which you have to 
> redo whenever there is a kernel update.
> 
> All was fine till a couple of months ago. Then on one update, something 
> broke I think. I instead used the envy nvidia script to patch things up 
> (as i mentioned previously on this list) and this worked fine.
> 
> Now I've dist-upgraded to the dev version of Ubuntu Feisty (working 
> pretty well so far by the way), but the nvidia drivers dont work here 
> for me either. What's confusing is that I have Geforce 2 MX100 DDR/200 
> DDR which I'm not completely clear whether this card requires the Nvidia 
> 'legacy' driver or the normal one. It seems older GeForce 2 cards do 
> need the legacy driver. I'm sure I've read conflicting info as to what 
> driver I require legacy or latest, but am wondering whether for some 
> reason I am always getting the wrong driver version here.
> 
> Just as a test to see if my install had got messed up with having to 
> using the Envy driver script method previously, I created a clean Ubuntu 
> Feisty Install, with exactly the same results.
> 
> Ubuntu forums are full of happy campers with Beryl and 3D swanky 
> graphics on Feisty but I'm stuck on 2D at the mo.
> 
> Can anyone suggest anything worth a try to get this fixed??
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Julian
> 
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