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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.

Hakunka-Matata
August 19th, 2011, 07:11 AM
no, don't give up yet, you've just got started.

@Amax As you don't post your sources, it is hard to verify if they used the Additional Drivers installer or if they did it manually. If you use the Additional Drivers installer as suggested, Nouveau will be blacklisted from the kernel module prober. However, if you install it manually, you need to create a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ that contains blacklist nouveau. – Egil (http://askubuntu.com/users/13570/egil) Apr 14 at 6:50


AND have you changed anything yet with the video driver? Such as letting "System > Administration > Additional drivers" search, find and install the driver it thinks is best?

SilverbearSDCA
August 19th, 2011, 09:09 AM
The additional drivers installer only gives the choice for the newer driver package which does not include my legacy card. I know this from experience (which forced a reinstall of nouveau).

realzippy
August 19th, 2011, 09:16 AM
So why not stay with 10.04...
Your hardware simply reaches EOL.

Duncan Williams
August 19th, 2011, 11:50 AM
make sure `nvidia current' is installed via synaptic or software manager, then have a look at `additional drivers' (after a reboot)

realzippy
August 19th, 2011, 12:07 PM
make sure `nvidia current' is installed via synaptic or software manager, then have a look at `additional drivers' (after a reboot)

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nVidia GeForce3

Duncan Williams
August 19th, 2011, 12:11 PM
nvidia current installation triggers `additional drivers' to look at the nvidia drivers, and should allocate the correct one for your nvidia product!!!!!

Duncan Williams
August 19th, 2011, 12:17 PM
http://keithelder.net/2001/10/17/nvidia-geforce-3-under-debian-linux/

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86994

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22/+bug/155231

realzippy
August 19th, 2011, 12:38 PM
http://keithelder.net/2001/10/17/nvidia-geforce-3-under-debian-linux/
10 years old.


http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86994

7 years old.


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22/+bug/155231
3 years old.

nvidia-current is the current nvidia-driver,as the name says.
It "triggers" nothing for a geforce 3 card.
This chip is not supported by the current nvidia driver.
It needs the 96.xx driver.No kernel modules for this old driver exist,so they are not offered by jockey (additional drivers GUI)

Duncan Williams
August 19th, 2011, 01:38 PM
fair enough, they used to recognise my old fx5200 card. Old posts for old card. I had no reference in `additional drivers' awhile back and installing nvidea current then made it suggest drivers, but as you said if the kernel don't know what it is then it can't.

Duncan Williams
August 19th, 2011, 01:42 PM
I can highly recommend a cheap new video card that flies in ubuntu.
nvidia geforce 6200 (based on 6800 series) only $40 here with 1/2 gig and it loves linux...

Duncan Williams
August 19th, 2011, 02:05 PM
previously stated: make sure `nvidia current' is installed via synaptic or software manager, then have a look at `additional drivers' (after a reboot)

sorry guys meant:

make sure `nvidia common' is installed via synaptic or software manager, then have a look at `additional drivers' (after a reboot)

(me=To many tabs and not enough brains)

realzippy
August 19th, 2011, 02:20 PM
ahhh,that makes sense now. ;-)