On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > Running Squeeze on my wife's laptop gives horrible graphics performance > (vertical lines all over the place, and a very fuzzy mouse pointer). > > $ lspci | grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti > 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1) > > The currently-installed Ubuntu 8.04 works fine. Lenny on a live usb > works fine. Squeeze and Ubuntu 10.04 on live usb both show similar > problems with the graphics. > > Some preliminary research suggested that booting with "nomodeset" might > fix it. It made a difference, but didn't fix the problem. On Ubuntu > 10.04, "nomodeset" fixed the display problems on the bootsplash, but not > on GDM or the logged-in desktop. On Squeeze no difference was noted, > but it doesn't use a boot splash. >
Have you tried the nVidia binary driver/kernel? I have used the same graphics card (less the Ti) in a Latitude D800 running Lenny without the nVidia driver and it worked okay, for what it's worth.
