Ultimate Edition 2.8 need some help...

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/07/10 15:27, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 13/07/10 13:37, NoOp wrote:
>    
>> On 07/12/2010 08:16 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On 13/07/10 12:56, NoOp wrote:
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>>>> On 07/12/2010 07:39 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> On 13/07/10 12:28, NoOp wrote:
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>>>>>            
>>>>>> On 07/12/2010 06:49 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>              
>>>>>>> I can see that Noop has already responded (I couldn't last night- it was
>>>>>>> my biddie-byes time :-) ) but here is a "simple" solution:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> boot into Recovery Mode;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> select As root with console;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> start mc (ie Midnight Coomander) - just type in 'mc'<Enter>;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>> Right...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ apt-cache policy mc
>>>>>> mc:
>>>>>>       Installed: (none)
>>>>>>       Candidate: 3:4.7.0-1ubuntu2
>>>>>>       Version table:
>>>>>>          3:4.7.0-1ubuntu2 0
>>>>>>             500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Please* if you insist on posting these, please think first.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1:) it's unlikely that the OP will have mc installed, it's a universe
>>>>>> package&     would need to be installed from universe.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> In Ultimate Edition, which is what the OP is using, mc (Midnight
>>>>> Commander) is installed by default.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> My apologies; I was not aware of that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Is OK.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> That said, nvidia-173 does not support GeForce4 according to the package
>>>> description.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> The main thing was to get him going as quickly as possible. I have the
>>> MX440 on another computer and I was pretty sure that I have 173 for it;
>>>
>>>        
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_96.43.16.html
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.14.25.html
>>
>> Click 'Supported Products' on both.
>>
>>      
>
> I will confirm or deny this later as I cannot get at my wife's computer
> at the moment, but I now seem to recall that it will not boot into the
> gui login screen at all with the nvidia driver installed - it boots into
> the command line login; as a result I am pretty sure that her computer
> is running on the default nvidia driver.
>
> (At this point I must add that I have yet to change her over to Ubuntu
> and she is therefore using another Linux distro.)
>
> BC
>    


I finally remembered to check and report on the above. Apologies for the 
lengthy oversight.

My wife's computer has the FX5500 nVidia card in it and the driver for 
it *is* installed, and it is the #173 legacy driver.

I just tried to install the #256 driver and got that error message I 
referred to before: this card is only supported by the 173 driver; the 
256 driver will be ignored -- or words very much to this effect.

So, as far as I am concerned, this card will not handle a driver above #173.

Of course, this may be influenced by the manufacturer of the card (all 
my video cards are by Gigabyte) and/or some other factor/s but from 
where I sit, the #173 driver is the highest numbered driver which will 
work with it.

BC

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