Ubuntu 8.10 RC and NVIDIA 96.43.05

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:57 PM, art <artmartz at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> Justin Stanczak wrote:
>> Does this answer you question?
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810
>>
> What's a good way to tell if you've got nvidia drivers that are
> affected?  My laptop has the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GS processor, if
> anybody has any feedback on this model.
> Art

Hey, Art

I was wondering the same thing, since the listing on that page you
refer to is broad enough to include almost all nvidia cards I have.  I
have Geforce Go in a laptop, and I think that is different from
Geforce, but I'm not sure.

But I don't think I'm in the unlucky group, and here's how you can
tell about your system.  Check which nvdia driver you run now:


$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii  nvidia-glx-new                             169.12+2.6.24.14-21.51
                             NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new'
driver
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                       20051028+1ubuntu8
                             NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
rc  nvidia-settings                            1.0+20080304-0ubuntu1.1
                             Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics
driv


Here it says I'm running the proprietary driver 169.12.  It it had
said I have a legacy driver, like this package, then I would be in
trouble.

nvidia-glx           96.x

nvidia-glx-legacy   71.x


Note the nvidia driver number is either 96 or 71, then I think it
means your card is one of the old ones that won't work.

I believe this is correct, but could be wrong.

Now, if you don't have any glx installed at all, then it means either
you are not trying for 3d effects or your card is really and truly
old.

I've screwed up my own video many times, and maybe i help you do the
same :) Last week, I got into synaptic and tried to install
"nvidia-settings" and it replaced my nvidia-glx-new with some other
thing and X would not start at all.

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