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Paul Sutton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > >> The same goes for software apps to a degree however we must remember here that >> MS has encouraged bad software design for a long time and poisened standards >> to ensure its difficult to move away from them. One of the reasons I gave up >> working in IT was because there were so many MS trained (via bribed >> universities) script kiddies with first class honours degrees in computing >> that couldn't debug a simple bit of code or write anything slightly generic >> that I got bored with wiping their coding bottoms. These people were never >> going to be Software Engineers let along architects - it was always 'wait >> till the next SP or Windows OS release comes' out rather than so a simple fix >> for the MS created problem in the first place. >> Tom te tom te tom >> >> >> > > I think you make a valid argument here and its backed up by a real world > example. > > I have to say that instaling the nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 8.10 was > pretty easy, and enabling / disabling them can be done in a few clicks, > > My Jaunty box however is runing an MX 420 card, and is stuck at 640x480, > so I have enabled panning, if I then connect using remote desktop it > actually displays the whole desktop on the other screen so there is no > panning (move mouse over screen border to display more desktop) involved. > > I tried to install a geforce 5200 the other day on my current 8.10 box, > and had a few issues, but at no point was a dropped to a command line. > I need to have another look at it. > > Paul > > > For the MX 420 card you'll need the NVidia legacy driver. IIRC it is nvidia-glx-96 for this particular card. More details on NVidia legacy drivers are available on NVidia's site here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html Basically you find two lists, one for the nvidia-glx-96 driver (or what NVidia call the 1.0-96xx driver) and another list for the nvidia-glx-71 (or 1.0-71xx) driver. Looks like pretty much anything below a Geforce 2 requires the nvidia-glx-71 driver with exception of the GeForce 2 MX & Geforce 2 Go. The nvidia-glx-96 driver appears to support all GeForce 2 MX or higher, all Geforce 3 and all Geforce 4 cards. Hope this helps. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html