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Alen
Asked: 2012-04-29 03:04:00 +0800 CST

Nvidia driver cannot be installed with jockey for old hardware

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I have a GeForce FX/5-series card and I cannot install the driver using the Additional Drivers (jokey) tool.

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and installed all nvidia drivers, but my drivers are not activated, when I open Nvidia settings manager I get the following message:

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run nvidia-xconfig as root), and restart the X server.

Can you help me with this?

nvidia 12.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The driver present in the Additional Drivers tool does not support your GeForce FX/5-series card.

    According to the bug report you opened you need to remove the drivers currently installed in your system and install the nvidia-173 package which should support GeForce FX/5-series cards out of the box.

    For that first remove all Nvidia drivers from your system with the following commands

    sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current nvidia-current-updates nvidia-settings nvidia-settings-updates

    This will remove all installed Nvidia drivers from your system. When that is done you need to install the nvidia-173, do it by opening a terminal and typing

    sudo apt-get install nvidia-173

    After the driver is installed in your system create a new xorg.conf file with the command sudo nvidia-xconfig and reboot. Your system should be working and using the latest driver available for your card.

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