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No version of this driver is available that works with your video card in Ubuntu 8.10.

Asked by tinker123

Hi;

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 on a 6 year old PC. I have been using Ubuntu for several years and everything done to that machine in terms of drivers has been done by Ubuntu.

I recently tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 and got this error message

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This computer is currently using the NVIDIA 'nvidia' graphics driver.
No version of this driver is available that works with your video card in Ubuntu 8.10.
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Running
lspci | grep VGA

Gives me this
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)

Any ideas on how I can successfully upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10?

 I'm not a hardware or linux expert so I apologize in advance if I haven't included any information. Just ask me and tell me how to find it.

Thanks in advance for information.

Steve

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plutino (plutino) said : 		#1

After you do a system update by:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

You will find the nvidia-96 driver in System->Hardware Driver which should work for your video card.

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tinker123 (tinker123) said : 		#2

I did the first two things. I have no such path or similar path for the 3rd step in my 8.04 system.

The Update Manager still has the same error message.

I don't understand what you are trying to do with the steps you suggested. Is it to install a proprietary driver which Ubuntu no longer does, then proceed with normal upgrade procedures?

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tinker123 (tinker123) said : 		#3

I decided to just ignore the message and proceed with the upgrade from 8.04 ->8.10 since I already had a driver in my system. Everything works. I'm closing this question.