Nouveau has not supported the NV28 video cards since Ubuntu 8.10 was issued (8.04 worked perfectly). In my case I have an nVidia Geforce4 4200 [NV28] factory-OEM installed in a Dell Latitude D800 notebook. There is no replacement video card for this notebook that I am aware of and replacement would be uneconomical in any case. Since it appears that nVidia is on the verge of dropping support for the video cards requiring the nvidia-96 driver, it would seem that nouveau will be the only option in short order. Currently, the nvidia-96 driver is ABI incompatible with Ubuntu 12.04, which requires a rollback to the xorg server-xorg version from Oneiric to get the video card to run.
My symptoms under nouveau are that the cursor/pointer is garbled to the point of unusability. The desktop itself is clear but with occasional glitches; without a proper pointer, the GUI cannot be accurately utilized. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653714 Title: Garbage on X display w/ Dell D800 wuxga & nouveau driver (Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP rev a1 [NV28]) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/653714/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
