Nvidia Geforce MX/MX400 Graphics Card Driver Problem

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

Go to System->Administration->Proprietary Drivers.
And switch to another Nvidia driver, and check if it work better.

Thanks for your reply.

I did as you suggested and went to System>Administration but there is no
option for 'Proprietary Drivers'.

Does this mean there is something missing from my version of Ubuntu?

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Your question #136063 on xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu changed:
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Go to System->Administration->Proprietary Drivers.
And switch to another Nvidia driver, and check if it work better.

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Thanks for your reply.

I assume that I was meant to write the 'sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep
nvidia' command into a terminal so that's what I did and this is the result.
Is it what you need?

Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.14
usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...]
          lshw -version

         -version print program version (B.02.14)

format can be

        -html output hardware tree as HTML

        -xml output hardware tree as XML

       -short output hardware paths

       -businfo output bus information

options can be

         -class CLASS only show a certain class of hardware

         -C CLASS same as '-class CLASS'

         -c CLASS same as '-class CLASS'

         -disable TEST disable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )

         -enable TEST enable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )

         -quiet don't display status

          -sanitize sanitize output (remove sensitive information like
serial numbers, etc.)

          -numeric output numeric IDs (for PCI, USB, etc.)

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Your question #136063 on Ubuntu changed:
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Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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I believe it uses the nvidia-glx-173 try installing it in software centre then rebooting

Installed nvidia-glx-173 but it made no difference. Any other ideas anyone?

Try:
   sudo lshw -class display
and post result.
Please, avoid answering with previous post included.

Hi,

I ran the command 'sudo lshw -class display' and the result is as follows:

*-display

description: VGA compatible controller

product: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]

vendor: nVidia Corporation

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

version: b2

width: 32 bits

clock: 66MHz

capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom

configuration: driver=nouveau latency=32 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5

resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:d0000000-d7ffffff
memory:fe9f0000-fe9fffff

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-96.43.19-driver.html 32bits driver for your card [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]
You need to install packet "nvidia-96" from Synaptic as your card is too old to be managed by "nvidia-183".

I downloaded the nvidia _96 driver through synaptic package manager and it
now shows up in Additional Drivers (alongside the nvidia_173). However
Additional Drivers states that both nvidia_96 and 173 are 'activated but is
not currently in use' and the graphics in mplayer and Google Earth are still
jerky and slow.

I'm not expert in graphic issues.
Could you deactivate Nvidia 173, reboot PC, ans see if Nvidia 96 is still activated and unused.

Thanks for all your help but my graphics are still playing up. Along the way, I was liked to another thread marked [Bug 626974]. However, although it seemed to be about drivers for older nvidia gaphics cards, I was unable to make any sense of what the correspondents were saying so I've unsubscribed from it. Anyway, I 've decided to try a different tack and buy a graphics card that will work with the generic, Ubuntu driver. I don't need anything too elaborate as I don't play online games; something that will be reasonbably cheap and will allow me to use Google Earth and play DVDs without jumping. Any ideas?

I use [GeForce 9600 GS] which works well with Ubuntu, but I can't say anymore on this card.