SilverbearSDCA
August 19th, 2011, 06:43 AM
Preface that I'm a neophyte in Linux, however have installed a number of ubuntu distros and currently running the 11.04 Natty on older hardware with AMD64 and an AGP nVidia GeForce3 card.
Generally, my system runs great - but I hate the color. I used a shared monitor with my Win7 box (for my work with Adobe graphics suite) and the color is great. When I switch to ubuntu machine the color sucks and I want better tools to change refresh rate as well as color, hue, saturation, brightness & contrast.
Under 10.10 the nVidia "additional hardware driver" worked well, however the version that want's to be validated under 11.04 does not work. The Nouveau driver has wrong refresh and so there is lots of flickering, and if I close a window fragments remain preventing viewing of windows that were below the closed one.
I know that nVidia driver 96.43.20 is the one I need and I've even downloaded this directly from nVidia but I have yet to find a method that works for removing nouveau and adding the nvidia legacy driver.
Should I just give up this search and resign myself to Windows superiority (g*d forbid! as I generally think Windows sucks) installing video drivers? A step-by-step process would be great - I'm not great with the command line - have searched everywhere and found nothing that worked.
Generally, my system runs great - but I hate the color. I used a shared monitor with my Win7 box (for my work with Adobe graphics suite) and the color is great. When I switch to ubuntu machine the color sucks and I want better tools to change refresh rate as well as color, hue, saturation, brightness & contrast.
Under 10.10 the nVidia "additional hardware driver" worked well, however the version that want's to be validated under 11.04 does not work. The Nouveau driver has wrong refresh and so there is lots of flickering, and if I close a window fragments remain preventing viewing of windows that were below the closed one.
I know that nVidia driver 96.43.20 is the one I need and I've even downloaded this directly from nVidia but I have yet to find a method that works for removing nouveau and adding the nvidia legacy driver.
Should I just give up this search and resign myself to Windows superiority (g*d forbid! as I generally think Windows sucks) installing video drivers? A step-by-step process would be great - I'm not great with the command line - have searched everywhere and found nothing that worked.