Unable to get drivers for my nvidia graphics card

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks.

Did you upgrade frmo lucid to maverick or did you clean install?

Actually, I did an upgrade first, but the system wouldn't boot after the
upgrade, so I made a CD using my laptop and did a clean install. I don't
know the output of my display. How would I find out? Thanx for responding so
fast!

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:48 PM, actionparsnip <
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> Your question #129550 on Ubuntu changed:
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> What is the output of:
>
> sudo lshw -C display
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> Thanks.
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> Did you upgrade frmo lucid to maverick or did you clean install?
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now, what is the real problem?

is it that the clean install isn't booting up?

is it that the clean install boots up but there's no display? e.g. screen is blank with blinking cursor

is it that the install boots up but the screen is garbled?

were you able to get to the logon screen?

Uh What... the problem is, that I can't use the proprietary drivers for my
graphics card in 10.10, like I could in 10.04.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:53 AM, marcus aurelius <
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> Your question #129550 on xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu changed:
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> marcus aurelius proposed the following answer:
> now, what is the real problem?
>
> is it that the clean install isn't booting up?
>
> is it that the clean install boots up but there's no display? e.g.
> screen is blank with blinking cursor
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> is it that the install boots up but the screen is garbled?
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> were you able to get to the logon screen?
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Can you give the output of the command I requested, it has been several hours now with no update...

I don't know what you are asking for, I requested a clarification!

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> Can you give the output of the command I requested, it has been several
> hours now with no update...
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What video card do you have? Run the command below and post output:
sudo lshw -C display

hicksrobin42@hicksrobin42-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for hicksrobin42:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: c1
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=248 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
       resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff
memory:e8000000-efffffff(prefetchable)
memory:feae0000-feafffff(prefetchable)
hicksrobin42@hicksrobin42-desktop:~$
I had to drop back to 10.04 because of stability issues!

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> Your question #129550 on xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu changed:
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> Status: Open => Needs information
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> Dave Lentz requested for more information:
> What video card do you have? Run the command below and post output:
> sudo lshw -C display
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Remove the proprietary driver. Your chip is supported by the 96 driver

I can't install the proprietary driver in 10.10, and whatever driver is in
10.10 has horrible performance!

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:21 PM, actionparsnip <
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> Your question #129550 on xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu changed:
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Remove the proprietary driver. Your chip is supported by the 96 driver
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I ran across an article on omgubuntu that said the same thing. Any links out there to which graphics the 10.10 system supports? Other than the graphics problem I loved the system, and for that matter still love 10.04; both systems better than Windows 7 in my book. Thanks for the Open alternative, fan for life!!!