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How to install NVIDIA GeForceFX driver in ubuntu 6.06?

Asked by Santanu

I have NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 PCI graphics card. I installed it's drivers through apt-get.

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

Everything got installed pretty well ... but on reboot ubuntu could not load harware drivers... It did not show any error message but it just stopped there .... 'Loading Hardware Drivers' during boot.

can anyone plz tell what happened?

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#1

apprently the nvidia-glx drivers for 6.06 are a bit buggy, you may have to install the nvidia-glx-legacy driver instead;
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

You also might want to consider upgrading to a newer version of ubuntu, the latest one if 7.10 and has much better support for the binary drivers via the restricted driver manager (you can get information about upgrading here http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading )

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