Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
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Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
30-04-2012 10:41 AM
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Quote If you have an NVidia card older than and including the G80 GPU, including the 6, 7, and 8800 series cards, DO NOT UPDATE TO Ubuntu 12.04 Precise yet! The latest NVidia driver installed with 12.04, 295.40, will not work with Compiz and 3D Unity. Precise will run in Unity 2D mode, but not 3D.
Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
30-04-2012 7:12 PM
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http://www.pclinuxos.com/
download here:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180
near the bottom of the page.
i've been using it for years and it's the most rock-solid, stable, usable distribution i know. the developers keep to texstar's philosophy of a reliable os for day to day work. cutting edge it is not. workhorse it is. could well solve your nvidia issue. i have a 5200 nvidia card, so it can handle old kit.
Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
30-04-2012 7:17 PM
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I'm successfully running Precise in 3D mode with the 295.33 driver, getting ~8000 fps on my 8800 GTS card. I troubleshot 12.04 for about 7 hours before discovering the nVidia driver issue. nVidia is actively working a fix.
Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
30-04-2012 7:47 PM
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4ODc
Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
30-04-2012 8:30 PM
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http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
30-04-2012 9:58 PM
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Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
04-05-2012 7:59 AM
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Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
04-05-2012 8:28 AM
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Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
04-05-2012 3:03 PM
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Quote from: ejs Well nvidia have now released 295.49 which claims to fix it.
The update doesn't support my GE Force 7050/ n force 610i.
Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
04-05-2012 5:33 PM
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It still seems to support other GeForce 7 and even 6 series.
Edit :- if you search for a driver for the 7050 / 610i it gives both 295.49 and the beta 302.07 as being compatible.
NB the search dropdown box doesn't even have 7050/ 620i as an option so I suspect the release notes could well be a typo.
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
10-05-2012 12:27 PM
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On my desktop at home which I intend to upgrade to 12.04 at the weekend I have a 6800gt Nvidia card, would I benefit at all from installing drivers from nvidia on that?
Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
10-05-2012 12:52 PM
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When I was playing with 12.04 BETA, the additional Nvidia drivers didn't appear until I had installed the 320+ updates
If you have done the updates, then look for the "System" settings and look for "Additional Drivers"
Unfortunately I don't currently have a machine with 12.04 installed, but intend to revisit installing the proper release over the next couple of weeks - probably when the Nvidia v302.07 driver is officially released.
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10-05-2012 1:07 PM
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10-05-2012 1:32 PM
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Re: Warning about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise and NVidia cards
10-05-2012 2:25 PM
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Here's a thread on the nvidia forums of people complaining about that.
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