Which is the right nvidia driver for a GeForce 7200S?

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/11/2010 18:08, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>    
>> I've tried the 204 (?) update - that refused to run, but it didn't
>> cripple my system (came up in single user mode, I dpkg uninstalled it
>> and all was well in the world).  I tried the 173 driver and that
>> crippled my machine as I described in a post moments ago for a
>> different question.
>>
>> Now I'm not so sure I even want to try the 96 driver, but I really
>> hate having a second rate video driver for a full HD monitor - it
>> just seems wrong.
>>      
> Well, maybe you should return to Lucid until Nvidia supports their older
> hardware with the new Xorg version [1]. For Maverick they have now
> released a 96 driver [2] but it seems that does not yet really work [3].
> I have a 7100 card and I'm using the 173 driver - I would expect that
> your 7200 card should also use that driver. However I'm using Lucid and
> I don't intend to run Maverick on this machine, so I don't have any
> experience with Maverick + Nvidia.
>
>
> Nils
>
> [1]<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes#Graphics%20and%20Display>
> [2]<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-November/233573.html>
> [3]<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2010-November/012283.html>
>    

I admit that I don't follow the "old" vs "new" nVidia cards and their 
associated drivers, but I have a GeForce 6600 nVidia card - which I can 
only assume to be older than the 7xxxx series - and I have absolutely no 
problems with it performing with the latest nVidia driver under Ubuntu 
10.04.1 and Ubuntu 10.10.

I simply allow Ubuntu to install the latest driver - and away I go!

BC

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