Comment 12 for bug 653714
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| Glenn Brumfield (brumfield-glenn) wrote | #12 |
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Nouveau has not supported the NV28 video cards since Ubuntu 8.10 was issued (8.04 worked perfectly). In my case I have an nVidia Geforce4 4200 [NV28] factory-OEM installed in a Dell Latitude D800 notebook. There is no replacement video card for this notebook that I am aware of and replacement would be uneconomical in any case. Since it appears that nVidia is on the verge of dropping support for the video cards requiring the nvidia-96 driver, it would seem that nouveau will be the only option in short order. Currently, the nvidia-96 driver is ABI incompatible with Ubuntu 12.04, which requires a rollback to the xorg server-xorg version from Oneiric to get the video card to run.
My symptoms under nouveau are that the cursor/pointer is garbled to the point of unusability. The desktop itself is clear but with occasional glitches; without a proper pointer, the GUI cannot be accurately utilized.