VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1) setup on Ubuntu 8.04

Hi Mike,

What graphics card are you using?

Please do the following:
- Post the output of: lspci

the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Communication controller: Conexant Unknown device 2702 (rev 01)
02:03.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

The output of lspci | grep VGA:
02:03.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)

I have a nVidia Geforce FX 5500

I believe that nvidia drivers can be downloaded from the website.

The driver on that website doesn't work.

Mike,

I do not know why you cannot enable the restricted drivers for your video card.

nvidia-glx-new does support your card, I checked the README. You can install it manually using the following:

$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-new

You may also want nvidia-settings:

$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-settings

Please report back here and let me know if this resolves your question.

Thanks,

Harvey

Mike,

I'm checking to see if the information I provided to you earlier Solved your question.

Thanks,

Harvey

Thanks Harvey Muller, that solved my question.