Can anybody suggest a PCIe (PCIEX16) graphics card which
has an open source driver (for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron).
Since I use my computer for program development I am
NOT interested in 3D features like 3D acceleration.

The reason why I want to buy a graphics card is:
After an update, which required a reboot, my Ubuntu 8.04
Hardy Heron (the one with the "long time support") offers a
maximum resolution of 640x320. This happens with the
proprietary closed source driver from NVIDIA. The open
source vesa driver is capable to support 800x600.

Maybe the update which caused this was the replacement
of the package nvidia-glx by nvidiy-glx-new. The hardware
driver program (in the system pulldown menue) just offers
a graphics drivers for the newest cards (which probably
means nvidis-glx-new). This means that I am not able to
specify that the old driver should be used.

BTW: The onboard graphic on my mainboard is a NVIDIA
GeForce 6150 GPU with a NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP chipset.
After several dozends of reboots, downloading different
packages using of EnvyNG and following different suggestions
I do not want to deal with proprietary drivers any more.

Please help me. Working with 800x600 is suboptimal.

Greetings Thomas Mertes

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:59:02 -0700, thomas.mertes wrote:

> Maybe the update which caused this was the replacement of the package
> nvidia-glx by nvidiy-glx-new. The hardware driver program (in the system
> pulldown menue) just offers a graphics drivers for the newest cards
> (which probably means nvidis-glx-new). This means that I am not able to
> specify that the old driver should be used.

I think you are right about this. Recently I had a very similar problem
to that with Ubuntu 8.04. It would not drive a built-in older nVidia
chip on a portable, regarless of nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-new, or the
driver from nVidia. Annoyed me because I knew my client would be playing
games on the system, and only the stock X driver would work.

> BTW: The onboard graphic on my mainboard is a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 GPU
> with a NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP chipset. After several dozends of reboots,
> downloading different packages using of EnvyNG and following different
> suggestions I do not want to deal with proprietary drivers any more.

I am using a 6150 right now. I am using Debian Unstable/Sid on this
system. The nVidia driver works great, but the stock X driver does not
support my 1600x1200 LCD. Big frowny face :-( because I also do not care
much about the 3D eye candy and would not have bothered.

But Ubuntu does something weird that limits my choice for the driver that
I want to use that I can get to work, and Debian (on which Ubuntu is
based) does not.

I opine that you may want to consider replacing your software, rather
than your hardware, as it is the cheaper option.

> Please help me. Working with 800x600 is suboptimal.

Undoubtedly. I hope you do not have to spend money on hardware to fix
the software. Maybe somebody in the Ubuntu forums can help?

thomas.mertes@gmx.at wrote:
> Can anybody suggest a PCIe (PCIEX16) graphics card which has an open
> source driver (for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron). Since I use my computer for
> program development I am NOT interested in 3D features like 3D
> acceleration.

> BTW: The onboard graphic on my mainboard is a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 GPU
> with a NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP chipset.

As you don't care about hardware accelerated 3D the open source nv driver
will probably work fine with your current nVidia card.

regards Henrik
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