Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know the NVIDIA 173.14.39 Legacy drivers for Linux have been released a while ago.
The NVIDIA 173.14.39 Legacy drivers comes with upgrades for old graphics card, support for X.org Server ABI 15 (xorg-server 1.15), and fixed the conflict with the OpenGL driver, caused by the libglamoregl.so, which could not be loaded in the kernel before.
In this article I will show you how to install the NVIDIA 173.14.39 Legacy drivers on the most popular Linux systems, including: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian, Kwheezy, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and many others.
How to install the Nvidia Legacy 173.14.39 drivers on 32 bit Linux systems:
$ wget -c http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.39/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1.run
$ sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1.run
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1.run
How to install the Nvidia Legacy 173.14.39 drivers on 32 bit Linux systems:
$ wget -c http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/173.14.39/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.39-pkg1.run
$ sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.39-pkg1.run
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.39-pkg1.run
I’ve just done it in a brand new Elementary Luna (nVidia FX5500): total FAIL, the screen looks scrambled with rectangles, no menu, no login screen.
You know what Linus Torvalds said about nVidia.