Precise LTS installed with NVidia-legacy-card --gnome3-windows invisible

[Andreas Glaeser]

Precise LTS was installed on this Pentium4 computer with an NVidia legacy-graphics card. Gnome looks Ok at first glance now upon installing all the software-updates, but when Applications are launched, the corresponding windows are invisible, semm to be mostly transparent.
This is my third choice choice actually. First I tried installing 'Linux Mint Cinnamon', which did not work, looked OK from the live CD, but did not look OK anymore once installed to harddrive, because the bottom-panel was missing then.
'Linux Mint 13 Mate' installed next, this worked OK, but did not start up cleanly either, my monitor showed 'Signal out of sync range' and could not display anything while starting up the system until some garbled words showed briefly and mdm was visible.
I tried to fix this by setting the kernel-boot option 'vga=ask' instead of 'silent splash' in /etc/default/grub , but this did not work either, boot hung, so I went for pure Ubuntu. Installation-report-bugs can not be filed using apport-bug in linux-mint, so I give feedback now this way.

Will proprietary NVidia-legacy-drivers be made available to Ubuntu-users, once compatible versions are released by the vendor, or did they completely drop support for their legacy-hardware ?

I will probably reinstall the whole system once again only with gnome-classic, and/or maybe the mate-desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: installation-report 2.46ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic-pae 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 18 18:29:02 2012
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: installation-report
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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