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  1. Bug #173418
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Comment 62 for bug 173418

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Joep (jlblom) wrote : Re: [Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

Sam,
With my (old) GeForce4 MX 4000 board the X.org nv-driver works without a
problem. I even succeeded to adapt the modeline command in the xorg.conf
file to the resolution 0f 1440x900.
I have to try the (old) 96.43.05 nvidia driver but I first have to solve
another problem with U 8.04.
Joep

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 06:50 +0000, Sam Stern wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just ran into this bug as well in ubuntu 8.04
>
> lspci -nn |grep VGA
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV28GL [Quadro4 980 XGL] [10de:0288] (rev a1)
>
> no amount of wrangling with nv, nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-new, or nvidia-
> glx-legacy would convince the system not to load the "vesa" driver. In
> the end I worked around this by downloading the linux32 driver from
> nvidia after removing all nvidia packages but the kernel module (trying
> to remove nvidia-kernel-common yields a frightening series of
> suggestions from apt-get).
>
> The driver I downloaded, that worked, was:
>
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.05-pkg1.run
>