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[Goh Lip <g.lip@xxxxxxx>]

To all, not withstanding Lane and I got our Lubuntu Maverick working, 
please take note of the following post from the Ubuntu list

> > > You are going to have to use nouveau for now, the proprietary
> > > nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers do not work with xserver 1.9 and most
> > > likely will not until right before release. 256.44 that is in
> > > ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates does work for the GPU's it supports with
> > > IgnoreABI added to the serverflags section in your xorg.conf but the
> > > older releases don't. If you want accelerated 3D (for compiz) with
> > > nouveau you can install the libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental package if
> > > you are using the mesa 7.8 that is in maverick.
> > >
> > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 is the proper
> > > place to report the problem, we can't do anything about it with the
> > > binary drivers.


> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?&t=153963
> > From AaronP (the nVidia guy that helps/supports Ubuntu):
> <quote>
> Re: X server 1.9 crash with 173.14.27
> Prerelease and release candidate X servers are not officially supported.
> In addition, Keith just declared the ABI in the upcoming xserver 1.9
> series as frozen, so support will be coming soon in a future version of
> the current release series, but support in the legacy drivers is not
> considered a particularly high priority so don't expect it any time soon.
> </quote>

So please watch out.

Regards - Goh Lip