Nvidia 173 for older cards breaks in Maverick
Bug #657140 reported by
Delan Azabani
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #626974: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 drivers in Maverick.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Maverick introduced the X server version 1.9, up from Lucid's 1.8 branch. Either way, users have to use Nvidia's version 173 (or 96) driver if they have a pre-GeForce-6 card, such as the FX 5 series. However, as Nvidia hasn't updated the 173 or 96 driver branches to work with X server 1.9 (the current branch has), the driver doesn't work at all, and X won't start.
affects: | ubuntu → nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: maverick |
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Could you try the newer drivers also and report if they work? Thanks...