Most stuff worked straight out of the box, apart from one thing. The nvidia drivers had a problem initialising, the "nv" drivers worked ok, but not the nvidia ones, and, unfortunately, you need the nvidia ones for 3D acceleration to work, and, of course, you need 3D acceleration to do Second Life etc. etc.
The problem I was having was that every time I installed the nvidia 96.43 drivers (I have a GeForce4 440MX), the display looked rubbish (to the point where I couldn't even read the text). So, a quick look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log showed the following error :
Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
It all basically (after about two days of investigation) found that there's a bug in Hardy which doesn't detect the monitor correctly, so you basically have some kind of basic monitor which doesn't have the correct resolutions, and this throws the driver completely. Anyway, a quick addition of :
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
to the xorg.conf file and it sorted it.
Other than that, no problems, and more than happy.
