Nvidia 6200 AGP X8 Graphics Card install on Ubuntu 6.06.1?

[Bill Davidson]

Hi Alfred,

Have you tried the howto's from the ubuntu wiki. This one is probably 
the easiest. It was written for dapper, but I followed it on edgy and it 
seems to have worked well:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper

If you want to continue installing the manual way, try this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaManual

Make sure you back up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf before proceding with 
either one of these.

HTH and good luck,
Bill

Alfred wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I've been experimenting with getting an Nvidia 6200 128MB AGP Slot X8
> Graphics card installed on Ubuntu 6.06.1 for a long time, in other
> versions of linux , and this one, without success. Every time , I try it
> there seems to be yet some other thing that gets in the way of my
> completing this little project. Nvidia has a Driver for it, sort of one
> size fits all. I'm new enough to Linux that I don't understand
> everything, or all the terms associated with it. Right at the moment I'm
> using the Nvidia Graphics card, but it does not seem to have some of
> it's features turned on, that are turned on in MS-Windows. The On Board
> Video was SiS Based, before I plugged in the Nvidia Card, with only 3
> frames per second typical. Video's are real "Jumpy", because frames are
> being missed. The Nvidia Card is still missing Frames, so the Video
> Playing is still Jumpy! During the install it asks for a Directory which
> contains the Kernel Sources. That Directory does not exist, but I could
> make one, if I knew what a kernel source was. Does Ubuntu come with a
> Kernel Source? Where would someone go to get a Kernel Source with the
> same number, as the Kernel that I now am using?