nvidia fx 5500 configure on ubuntu?

[Portaro]

I'm buy recently this card nvidia fx 5500 to have a replace card to this old pc, but I try to install the drivers that can I see on the package manager , nvidia-173.

However I see that this drivers dont work-

What I can do to configure properly the driver on Lubuntu?

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[Portaro]

Well , I find an amazing help on a external forum & amazing Debian, UBuntu, Arch, Slack community of friend users of GNU/linux called - GNULinuxVagos - you can see the solution on the forum here - http://gnulinuxvagos.es/topic/4674-n...e-3#entry29485

Very easy if you need .

Install nvidia (version of your required card) by Ubuntu repository - for me is nvidia-173 for my fx 5500 .

sudo apt-get install nvidia-173 nvidia-settings

Add xorg edgers ppa to your repos - https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Update , upgrade you softwares by synaptic to see if appear any update of xorg-edgers, if see any install.

Then see if in the process of updates appear any message like - ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package .... is not supported.

If in your case you see this message you need other kernel in my case I install 3.13.0-49 and then works -

Try the command :

$ lsmod |grep nvi

if you have an error on the command return, you need test other kernel, I recommend 3.13.0.49 is the lts kernel.
If you see the external forum thread you can see that I test Liquorix, and 3.16 and I have problems to enable the driver configs properly on this kernels.

When you have a kernel configured with driver , the result of command:

$ lsmod |grep nvi

he is always a good return like ->

$ lsmod |grep nvi
nvidia 7108418 24

I hope this help others if need, and finally thanks for Shiba87 by GNULinuxVagos.ES because he help me on the path to solve my problems day after day.

Thanks.