Me too.... The display attempts to show a desktop, but cycles between a plain background and then a background with expected desktop icons (and then back to a plain desktop, ad infinitum). Booting into safe mode works as expected with a message about Unity.
#lshw ... *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=64 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5 resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:fea00000-fea1ffff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/772207 Title: version 173.14.30 is buggy for GeForce FX 5200 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs