NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 under Ubuntu Dapper Drake
My GeForce4 MX 420 didn’t work properly with OpenGL under a fresh install of Dapper Drake. Fixing it, however, proved to be really easy: Install the nvidia package: $ apt-get install nvidia Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace the ‘driver’ where it says ’nv’ with “nvidia”: Section “Device” Identifier “NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420]” #Driver “nv” Driver “nvidia” BusID “PCI:1:0:0” EndSection Kill X with control-alt-backspace Login again and test if it works by running glxgears and glxinfo on the console ...