I've not bothered with installing the driver manually, I was just pointing out that jockey-gtk doesn't pick up that an nvidia legacy adapter is present.
At some point when I need it, I'll get round to installing. From memory, I had to use the 7186 driver with 8.10 to get desktop effects working. Dave Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/7/13 David Jones <djones.dan...@googlemail.com>: >> I'm not sure whether the drivers in Jaunty will work with a TNT2 card, > > Well, I looked up which ones would work first. > >> 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. > > Did you check to see what driver you need? nVidia's now are split into > about 4 or 5 editions. > >> The machines both work fine using the standard nv driver, I'm just >> unable to enable desktop effects. > > I also found things like window dragging and resizing to be very slow > and jerky with nv. > >> 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 > > May I suggest that you check which drivers you need first? > > Go to nVidia's website: > > http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us > > Enter your model of GPU. Pick Linux 32-bit (assuming that's what > you're running.) > > For my Riva TNT2, I picked "legacy" as it's not in any other category. > This took me to here: > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_71.86.11.html > > So I need the v71.86.11 drivers. > > So I went into Synaptic and searched for "nvidia-glx". This shows all > the nVidia drivers. I just picked v71, installed it and rebooted. > > Simples! > > But you need to install the right one. Try it! > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
