Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

  1. Bug #948053
  2. Comment #163

Comment 163 for bug 948053

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piccobello (piccobello) wrote :

My experience in a nutshell (using Kubuntu):
- I have an old machine with a GeForce FX 5200, which was working great with natty and the proprietary nvidia-173 driver, manually installed
- I don't care about 3D and effects, but watching movies with nouveau I had some annoying flickering horizontal lines
- after upgrading to precise I restored nouveau as the proprietary driver compalined about a missing file in /lib
- installing nvidia-173 (173.14.39-0ubuntu0.0.1) using Applications -> System -> Additional Drivers (Jockey) solved the issue for me.

In short, you can use GeForce FX 5200 with nvidia-173 in Kubuntu Precise

Thanks to all that contributed!