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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

  1. Bug #626974
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 626974

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Larry Woodring (larry-w) wrote : Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick

I'm having the problem, too. One of the reasons I installed Ubuntu on this old PC was that Linux is supposed to run better on older equipment. I had several major problems with my update from 10.04 to 10.10: first, my grub config got messed up and I had to restore it, losing my multi-boot in the process. Second, I had to do the "quick and dirty" fix to load the vesa driver, since my nvidia-96 driver is not supported. Overall, the upgrade to 10.10 has been a disaster. I'm afraid I was lulled into thinking that Ubuntu was more sophisticated than it is. In the future, I'll be sure to wait a couple of months before upgrading versions to make sure that bugs like this are ironed out first.

Ubuntu wants to appeal to the masses, but that won't fly until upgrades become reliable.