NVIDIA with GeForce FX 5200 256mb
Ken Siersma
siersmak at ekkinc.com
Thu Aug 3 16:09:55 UTC 2006
paul cooke wrote:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:06, Felipe Fidelix wrote:
>
>> please! after i install my GeForce and configure Xorg in Kubuntu Dapper, X
>> starts and everything blows up.
>>
>> a BLACK SCREEN appear, and all devices like mouse, and keyboard stops
>> working.
>>
>
> I dumped the ubuntu packaged driver and installed the nvidia driver from the
> nvidia website.
>
> On this machine, I've always had problems getting the Ubuntu supplied
> nvidia-glx drivers to work.
>
> I have a GeForce FX 5500 256MB
>
>
>
I agree that this should work, especially with previous versions of
ubuntu. But with dapper you get the 8762 version of the nvidia driver,
which should be new enough to handle a GeForce 5200.
--
Ken Siersma, Software Engineer
EKK, Inc.
http://www.ekkinc.com
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