I have Ubuntu Maverick on an old AthlonXP PC, with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard and a 7600GS video card from Club 3D. I can confirm the nvidia error, the NOPAT and splash workaround.
j...@athlonxp:~$ uname -a Linux AthlonXP 2.6.35-13-generic-pae #18-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 31 03:07:03 UTC 2010 i686 j...@athlonxp:~$ lspci -tv -[0000:00]-+-00.0 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] +-01.0-[01]----00.0 nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] +-0d.0 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller +-0d.1 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller +-0d.2 VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 +-0d.3 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller +-0e.0 Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture +-0f.0 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] +-10.0 Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 +-10.1 Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port +-11.0 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge +-11.1 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE +-11.2 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller +-11.3 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller \-11.4 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller -- Xorg fails with "NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate primary buffer: out of memory." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607490 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp