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[Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick

 

I'm having the problem, too.  One of the reasons I installed Ubuntu on
this old PC was that Linux is supposed to run better on older equipment.
I had several major problems with my update from 10.04 to 10.10:  first,
my grub config got messed up and I had to restore it, losing my multi-
boot in the process.  Second, I had to do the "quick and dirty" fix to
load the vesa driver, since my nvidia-96 driver is not supported.
Overall, the upgrade to 10.10 has been a disaster.  I'm afraid I was
lulled into thinking that Ubuntu was more sophisticated than it is.  In
the future, I'll be sure to wait a couple of months before upgrading
versions to make sure that bugs like this are ironed out first.

Ubuntu wants to appeal to the masses, but that won't fly until upgrades
become reliable.

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ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626974
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