Nvidia-glx Won't Work on Hoary

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:08:11PM -0500, David M. Carney wrote:
> I upgraded to Hoary.
> 
> I can live with the butt-ugly mouse pointer if I have to.
> 
> But no matter what I try to do, I cannot get Nvidia to work.
> 
> It was working perfectly under Xfree and the 2.6.8 kernel.
> 
> I tried the way described in the Ubuntu Wiki and I tried using the
> Nvidia driver (rebuilt using 2.6.10 sources). I commented out dri in the
> xorg.config file (glcore wasn't in there, so no need to comment it out)
> and I changed the driver name to nvidia.
> 
> What do I have to do to make the darned thing work? I have no
> first-born-male-children....

If you have a TNT2 or that era of card, it's known to be broken in the
latest nVidia driver; they are aware of it and the fix will apparently
be in the next release.
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