Getting GEFORCE 7600 working on Ubuntu 7.10
I had a heck of a time trying to get this to work every time I tried to enable the restricted driver so I could run the enhanced UI all that would happen when rebooting is I’d get a message indicating that we were going to use Low-Resolution.
Things got disparate when I brought my two Dell’s from NXP home and wanted to hook them up to my linux box. So I searched the net and ran across Alberto Milone’s Envy package. To get the enhanced UI going I needed to install xserver-xgl.
sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl
This was found when executing compiz from the command line and an error is seen “Xgl: not present”. After installing I still have a couple of complaints; first X thinks the display is 3200×1600 and tends to put things in the middle of the display. Secondly, the menu bars at the top and bottom extend across both screens. On windows the system understands that there are two screens and it works better.