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[Ray Nichols <728745@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll report my findings after upgrading  Maverick Meerkat to Natty in
the past two days in case it helps.

My graphics card is:

lspci -nn | grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] [10de:01df] (rev a1)

Currently "lspci -v" reports:

<snip>
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 2207
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at fb000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at fd7e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nvidia-173, nvidia-current, nouveau, nvidiafb
<snip>

On first boot I went in to Unity with a frozen screen with no usable
virtual terminals. So my video card is *not being blacklisted*. By
forcing a re-start of my computer I could start Ubuntu Classic /Gnome
and change my video driver.

I've chosen in "Additional Drivers" NVIDIA (version 173). After a re-
boot it is shown as activated but not currently in use. It is also
saying that no proprietary drivers are in use on this system.

From: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9028144&postcount=24 it
says that Ubuntu showing the driver as activated but not in use is a
known issue.

My boot screen and virtual terminals were still unreadable. I changed them as per:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
via Startup-Manager
from 
Resolution: 640x480 to 1024x768
Color depth: 8 bits to 24 bits

Under advanced I also changed the Bootloader menu resolution to
1024x768.

In the misc section: Show boot splash is unchecked and Show text during
boot is checked - this does not seem to be true as I see no text and do
get a basic splash screen.

My computer works reasonably now but if I use a virtual terminal (which
does now work) e.g. tty1 (CTRL-ALT-F1, BTW It's CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back)
I get artefacts on my screen and I need to force a screen re-draw e.g.
ALT-TAB to a maximized app.

I guess for an easier life I need to buy a newer card going forward with
Unity!

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  [nvidia, 7300, 7400] display freeze when using unity desktop

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