Restricted Manager installs wrong nvidia driver

[Graham Flett]

Binary package hint: restricted-manager

Ubuntu 7.10 - Restricted manager installs nvidia-glx driver on system with a GeForce2 MX graphics card instead of the nvidia-glx-legacy driver.

[David Wynn (wynn-david)]

See this link:

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=276&p_created=1119630054&p_sid=UlOouZOi&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD01MDcmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0y&p_li=&p_topview=1

According to nvidia -- GeForce2 MX *is* supported by the later drivers included in nvidia-glx. However, its about the earliest card that is still supported.

[Graham Flett (grahamflettsjunkmail)]

My system crashes just before displaying the login screen 9 times out of 10 with the nvidia-glx driver installed.

Oddly enough, the nvidia "supported products" list for the 9631 driver, which is older than the one in the repos (9639) does not list the GeForce2 MX as supported.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-9631.html

Your link was for the XP driver. It seems that the XP driver still supports the GeForce2 MX series:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html

[David Wynn (wynn-david)]

My apologies. Thank you for the correction. For reference purposes, I found these two links that should cover the difference between the various Linux drivers:

Cards that are supported by nvidia-glx-new are here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html

Cards supported by the two legacy drivers are here. nvidia-glx cards first, then nvidia-glx-legacy cards:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html

And the GeForce2 MX is listed on these pages as being supported under nvidia-glx. That being said, as long as a card existed before one of the older drivers, it should be possible to use your card with the older driver. So, even if the GeForce2 MX is supported by the nvidia-glx drivers, because it was around when the older drivers were built, it would also work with the nvidia-glx-legacy drivers.

I will also point out that there is an application called nvidia-xconfig. Check "man nvidia-xconfig" for the various options that may need to be tweaked to get a card running with any of these drivers.

[David Wynn (wynn-david)]

No updates to this bug since 2007. Bug indicates its specific to the 7.10 release of restricted-manager. Ubuntu 7.10 support ended on 4/18/09. If this continues to be an issue on later versions of Ubuntu / restricted-manager, please open a bug specific to the updated software. Assuming this has been fixed by later releases.