Thank you for following up on this. I reported this bug because it affected Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04LTS) after about 8.04.2. According to the release notes for Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10), the version(s) of xorg following Hardy did not (and still do not) support "legacy" NVidia video cards using the 96 & 71 drivers. The nv driver is used instead which does not correctly support my video card; I am forced to use the NVidia proprietary driver. This issue has been deemed not worth fixing by the powers that be for all currently supported Ubuntu versions.
I am currently using Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04LTS) installed to my hard drive. USB flash drives, blank cd's all appear correctly on my desktop. I still have to use the proprietary driver for my video card, otherwise the pointer on my desktop is scrambled. Running Natty Narwhal (Ubuntu 11.04) from Live-Cd & Live-USB, USB flash drives & blank-cds seem to show up correctly on my desktop; of course I still have the video-driver issue from Live Media but that is a separate issue. I understand that priorities must be established to fix bugs and as Hardy is no longer supported I see no reason to keep this bug open. Thank you for your time! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463930 Title: Hardy - blank cd does not show on desktop -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
