thnks for your reply....pemasu wrote:Charlie6. ...It looks like that the 96.43.20 nvidia driver package is not compatible with 3.X kernels...
Unfortunately that older nvidia driver package is not compatible. .
I then browsed the nvidia forum ans found this post written by 16 augustus 2012 ( i surely ought to browse there first ... ):
so no hope - i will use this pc with 5X15Nvidia Linux forum member wrote:Default Re: NVidia 96.xx.xx & 173.xx.xx Legacy drivers don’t work in Ubuntu 12.04
I emailed support about a week ago and they replied very quickly that they have no intentions to update the 96xx driver. We are just out of luck.
see results here ==> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... start=2129
Cheers, Charlie