I think you are crossing machines. This current machine has a PCI-e card at 16x. It is actually a 7600 GS not 7800. My old machine had the 8x agp but the ATI card could only do 4x. So I ran it as 4x and had much better performance than this current nVidia card with 512 MB DDR2. The ATI only had 32 MB of RAM. My belief is that with an OS as nice as Ubuntu, the installation program should ask if one wants to use the restricted drivers and then probe the system to achieve the desired resolution and optimum performance the hardware can stably withstand. It also should not clutter the xorg.conf file with hardware that does not exist such as a Wacom input device. If they don't want to use restricted drivers, so be it. It should still maximize video performance with the opensource version. In any respect, the Installation system could test different configurations until a satisfactory one is achieved. Currently, if it fails to load I get something that reminds me of some other OS notorious "Blue Screen of Death" only worse. Bob <div>On 9/26/07, Rashkae <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@tigershaunt.com">ubuntu@tigershaunt.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Robert Stockdale IV wrote: > Yes I did use the Restricted driver. The default was nv and I changed that > to nvidia. I tried using configuration tools as well as editing > xorg.conf manually. Maybe it is a defective card. I did use > acceleration, but not > completely. It was not responsive and it would crash. > Bob > This might (probably) has nothing to do with your problem, but I offer it as food for thought. I once had an AGP Nvidia card that would *not* work stable at 8X AGP (even though it was supposed to support it.) Unfortunately, with the design of the nvidia drivers, the only way to force it down to 4X was by editing the source. The procedure was well documented in the nvidia documentation, but still *way* beyond the call of reasonable for most end users. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>