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Invidious Nvidia - FX5200 installation on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 12:15 — Patrick

After installing 8.04 on my daughter's machine, I realised that the ATI Radeon 9200 128Mb RAM AGP video card was not going to pass muster.
Though it could manage some of the simpler eye candy in Compiz, it was not able to run Celestia or GoogleEarth without serious image problems.
Installing an Nvidia FX5200 I thought would be a breeze. I'd installed it previously in Dapper 6.06 and had no problems. It is a twin-head card on which I ran two 17" monitors.
I installed the card, booted back in to Ubuntu and selected the Hardware Drivers option in the menu, selected to install the drivers and on rebooting...I had a black screen!

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