>From the upstream bug it looks like this *should* work for GeForce 8200
and 8300 cards, both in 10.04 and in Maverick.
That said, laptop hardware is often weird; so while I expect that most
8200 cards work, it's entirely possible that we don't support some quirk
of your laptop's 8200. If you're willing to invest a little time, it
would be useful if you could grab some log files from the Maverick
livecd. You should be able to get to a terminal by editing the boot
options and adding “single”, and from there you'll be able to grab some
logs. You can grab all the logs we want by running “apport-cli --save
xorg-logs.crash xorg”, which will produce a file “xorg-logs.crash”.
Attaching that to this bug would be useful.
Incidentally, your linux guru was wrong. We don't hardcode nouveau - we
load it by default, then if that doesn't work, we fallback to the -nv
driver (which doesn't support your card), then fallback to VESA. If
disabling nouveau didn't result in a working system, I'd guess that -nv
tried to start and failed.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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Nouveau in Ubuntu does not work on NVIDIA GeForce 8200M
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/605414
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