Re: [LUG] Im moving back to windows

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dave <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rob Wrote:

> IIRC it is nvidia-glx-96 for this particular card.

Sorry for being really stupid but I've seen the Acronym 'IIRC' a few times
now and don't know what it means.

Can someone enlighten me?

Regards,
Dave.

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Im moving back to windows

Paul Sutton wrote:
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>> 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
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> 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
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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

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