I'm not sure whether the drivers in Jaunty will work with a TNT2 card, thats slightly older than the Geforce2 cards I've got in my laptop and desktop and for both of them I can't get 3D working, hardware drivers tool doesn't detect that an nvidia card is installed so won't automatically check for a better driver.
The machines both work fine using the standard nv driver, I'm just unable to enable desktop effects. There is a bug filed about this, whether its the same problem, I'm not sure. The bug I've filed ishttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/363380 Regards Dave Liam Proven wrote: > I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally, > I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and > an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card. > > Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live > CD, but the resultant system never got past GRUB. Jaunty worked fine, > 1st time. > > The Hardware-drivers tool is unable to detect this old graphics card, > but I googled for more instructions. I checked what version of > nVidia's drivers support a Riva TNT2 and it's the v71 build. > > So, I installed nvidia-glx-71. This went smoothly. On reboot, there is > no nVidia logo, but the display seems a lot snappier. Scrolling is now > lightning fast, windows move quickly if a little jerkily, and resizing > them is smooth. > > But as some posts led me to fear, the Display applet now can't change > screen resolution. Neither will nVidia's X Settings tool, which merely > says that I'm not using an nVidia driver. No OpenGL screensavers work > and I can't enable desktop effects. > > How can one tell if one is or isn't using the nVidia driver? My > xorg.conf file is empty. And if, as I suspect, I am, then why won't > OpenGL work? > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
