nvidia-glx problem

[giuseppe]

Binary package hint: nvidia-glx

I have an nvidia geforce4 mx440 graphic card and neither the nvidia-glx nor the nvidia-glx-legacy drivers support the chipset.

[giuseppe (bepp88)]

I just think that we gotta forge a new-legacy series of driver to solve the problem!!!

[rasz (citizenr)]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/i386/nvidia-glx/

feisty i386 Release: Published version 1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-13.12 in component restricted and section x11 on 2007-03-26 07:03:21 UTC

it broke yesterday, as of that day a LARGE ( http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html just look at Steam statistics, there are ton of GF3-GF4 users, ~5-10%, and those are ppl playing games =have huge incentive to upgrade, and here we got ppl who often chose linux NOT to upgrade the computer) percentage of nvidia users have NO WAY to pick the correct (9631) driver , there are only two, legacy 7xxx (for TNT and first Geforce) and 97xx (for FX and never cards).

I propose something like nvidia-glx-lesslegacy , because 9631 is somewhere in between 7xxx and 97xx

[rasz (citizenr)]

btw http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/restricted/l/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20_1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-13.12/changelog
doesnt exist

is there a way to force the older nvidia-glx package?

[rasz (citizenr)]

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/multiverse/l/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20_2.6.20.4-13.12/changelog

also doesnt exist, but

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/restricted/l/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20_2.6.20.4-13.12/changelog

does, is it package bug (wrong patch to changelog) or synaptics thingie?

[rasz (citizenr)]

doh, I searched for similar bug and found this, but later fount the earlier one 96430, so this is a dupe

[Mike Dahlgren (dahlgren)]

Because this is identical to Bug #96430, I am setting it as a duplicate.

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