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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Martin Gautier <martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmm. > > He's using the proprietory nVidia driver already. Ubuntu chose it for > him. It needs the older v97? driver rather than the newer v180? I tried > manually installing the latest driver set via synaptic without success - > they just didn't like the card and Ubuntu fell back to it's 640x480 VGA > failsafe mode. > On Debian (non-free) there is nvidia-glx-legacy for the older nvidia GFX cards > I could try downloading directly from nVidia I suppose but I expect I'll > still need to use the older driver set rather than the newer one because > the card is old. NVidia offer binaries for the legacy and the newer cards, but if you are on a legacy card still then that means pre 6000 series? so if you actually want 3d its probably time to bite the bullet and get a slightly newer one on ebay that at least supports the new drivers, even the 7000 series are coming up for 4-5 years old Otherwise you might just as well install mesa-common and live with software openGL for the 3D. Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html