Comment 6 for bug 922268

but the graphic card I am using (FX 5500) is supported by the legacy 173 driver and not the current one...
installing manually fails either way, since the nvidia-173 driver lacks the ABI support and it fails to start the x-server. and the nvidia-current wont work since when installing from the repository, it installs, but doesn't get enabled because of the graphic card not supported by it and the manual installation from the NVIDIA driver page fails because of the same reason.

...strange that "making new and better system actually makes the older components not 2 work"

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