After running the update commands yesterday:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
There were a few nvidia video card drivers that got installed. There were several of them;
fglrx-modaliases
nvidia-173-modaliases
nvidia-177-modaliases
nvidia-180-modaliases
nvidia-71-modaliases
nvidia-96-modaliases
Once these modaliases were installed, I performed a search for hardware drivers. This time the search showed that there were several drivers that could work with my Nvidia GeForce 7300 graphics card.
Nvidia graphics drivers after Jaunty update (Feb 2, 2009)
The recommended driver was version 180. After installing the driver, the computer needs to be restarted for the driver to take effect. Accordingly, I restarted the computer and now the Nvidia graphics are fully enabled.
One of programs that I use frequently is still quite buggy. The gnome-do program, that performs the same functions as Quicksilver (Mac) was working really well under Intrepid. It keeps crashing all the time under Jaunty. By the time Jaunty is in Alpha 4, I think the problem would be sorted out.
While the nividia graphics card drivers have been release for Jaunty, the ones for ATI still aren’t. The graphics on my Toshiba Satellite that has an ATI graphics accelerator card are still using the system memory. We’ll have to wait for the ATI drivers in order for the card to start working in Ubuntu 9.04.
