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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/22/2014 01:52 AM, Leszek Lesner
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20140422075239.5849234.71521.10336@web.de"
type="cite">
<div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri,
'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The nvidia-96
are simply so old that they won't work with the current kernel
that's one of the reasons it was not shipped I guess. </div>
<div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri,
'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What actually
might work very good for 2D acceleration is the old nv driver. </div>
<div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri,
'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But that seems
not to be packages for Ubuntu 14.04. </div>
<div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri,
'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The only source
I know where to get it is at launchpad:</div>
<div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri,
'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv">https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv</a> </div>
<div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri,
'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I guess
installing want be enough. It needs removal of nouveau driver or
blacklisting. </div>
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'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br name="BB10"
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<div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri,
'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Nouveau
driver has known issues with very old cards like this one. Thats
the only reason I would recommend the old nv open-source
driver. </div>
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'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align:
initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
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I have a machine I gave to my daughter's family that has an older
nvidia graphics card. <br>
<br>
When I tried to upgrade it to 13.04, it had strange behavior
visually. Windows would not be completely (or correctly) painted,
but if I moved the mouse over the areas where the missing items
should be, they would appear. <br>
<br>
Because of that, when I gave her the machine, I installed a Kubuntu
12.04 LTS system on it, putting off my decision on what to do with
it until the end-of-life of 12.04 LTS. They were used to using
Kubuntu, and there was no Lubuntu 12.04 LTS system, so I chose
Kubuntu. <br>
<br>
So if any of you come up with something that will solve these
apparently similar graphics problems, and will not fail again the
next time their system gets upgraded to a new level (14.10, for
example), I am definitely interested. <br>
<br>
I have assumed that the only choice is to get them a newer nvidia
graphics card, or to give them one of my test machines (if I need
fewer of them in the future). <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Sincerely,
Aere</pre>
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