Comment 108 for bug 251107

JUST an FYI to Alberto and anyone with an older NV11 or so GPU, I installed the Nvidia driver that was posted in this thread late last week(96.x), directly from the nvidia web site per the instructions that were posted here. then Alberto strongly suggested that we wait for the ubuntu deb package, but it was already too late for me. However the install went flawless and I have been running the great since last week when they were released. I have a laptop with a GeForce2 Go (NV11) GPU and installed the 96.x version when I had previously had to use the 71.xx drivers. maybe, just maybe the 71.x drivers aren't really needed anymore since I am running compiz without any problems, however I don't do WINE as its not ready for prime time yet. I'm just wondering why so many NV11 GPU's are having install issues when mine went flawless. (I'm not looking forward to the broken symlinks when they show up that Alberto said could happen ). maybe they already have, because I do not see any new restricted drivers showing up in synaptic or the driver manager app. just now, but I'm running better than ever.

PS, I did a clean install of 8.10, not an upgrade, maybe that could be the problem. in the past restricted drivers and upgrades ALWAYS caused me to execute a clean fresh install in the end to get things working. ( however this is the first time I have ever upgraded (from 8.04 to 8.10) and the restricted drivers installed as expected on other computers that were running the 177.x drivers and 173.x.)