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lau wrote:
Dussel wrote:
lau wrote:
I've got a rather older kernel on my 10 year old workhorse desktop, as Intrepid doesn'y (didn't?) like my old graphics card (GeForce4), so I'm still running Gutsy there.
According the nvidia:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L ... dix-a.html
The newer drivers do not support the GeForce4-Card, but the older version 1.0-96xx - to be found here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_disp ... -9639.html
You may have a look into the Readme-File:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L ... README.txt
The problem isn't Nvidea, it's Intrepid. The upgrade from Hardy (sorry, it isn't Gutsy, it's Hardy. With the desktop showing the Heron for a year, you'd think I'd have got used to what it was called?) doesn't give an option to use older Nvidea drivers (or at least, last time I tried to upgrade, that's what it said).
What you would need to do is to de-install the driver and to re-install the old drivers directly from Nvidea. You must be only careful to de-install the old drivers fully.
lau wrote:
As I'm in the process of phasing out this machine, to some extent, I don't really want to get too tied up in tinkering with the upgrade process. (I've been phasing it out for about six months, now. Who knows.... another year or so, and I might get it done. )
I thin in the meanwhile there will hardy any piece of software on this box which is same ...
Dussel wrote:
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What you would need to do is to de-install the driver and to re-install the old drivers directly from Nvidea. You must be only careful to de-install the old drivers fully.
What you would need to do is to de-install the driver and to re-install the old drivers directly from Nvidea. You must be only careful to de-install the old drivers fully.
No thank you. I have a system that works, at present, with my GeForce4 card.
I've been down the route of tinkering with the Nvidea stuff, and it's a minefield.
I managed to wreck my Debian system, by chopping and changing between stable, unstable and testing, and the variations of the Nvidea drivers, while Beryl was in development.
I quite liked Envy, when that came along, because it sorted out some of the problems that still remained on Ubuntu.
Eventually, Ubuntu and Compiz seemed to have sorted it all out, and reached a nice, stable system.
And then Intrepid decided it couldn't be bothered with the GeForce4.
I'd actually prefer to replace the graphics card, as a quicker, cheaper solution, if I really wanted to upgrade to Intrepid, which at present, I'm not too fussed by.
Dussel wrote:
lau wrote:
As I'm in the process of phasing out this machine, to some extent, I don't really want to get too tied up in tinkering with the upgrade process. (I've been phasing it out for about six months, now. Who knows.... another year or so, and I might get it done. )
I thin in the meanwhile there will hardy any piece of software on this box which is same ...
I think my last Ubuntu upgrade was something like a 500MiB download.
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Admittedly Windows 95 was pretty good when I saw it.
Really? we used to call it Mac 88
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