i hate nvidia drivers

[Willy K. Hamra]

Alan_Dacey at horizonblue.com wrote:
>> On Thursday 12 June 2008 04:11:02 pm Willy K. Hamra wrote:
>>> i got the system restored, it's all back fine, using the properietary
>>> driver from the repos. the only time i remember that i got a working
>>> nvidia setting other than using the repos, was using "envy", and that
>>> was on feisty, but some people on IRC advised me not to use it as it 
> can
>>> create other problems, i was new to linux back then and took their
>>> advice. does anyone on the list use envy? is it reliable?
>> I use it, and I'm not sure what other problems it would cause that using 
> the 
>> restricted driver would not also cause.
>>
>> I think if you enable universe in Hardy (8.04) you can install it from 
> there. 
>> its called envyng now.
> 
> I've used the drivers from nVidia with Ubuntu 7.10 and had problems too. I 
> finally 
> got it working and then the 8.04 upgrade put me in a world of hurt.  When 
> I did a 
> fresh install of Kubuntu I decided to give envy a try.  This time I found 
> it in the 
> repros as 'envyng'.  I had problems running the GUI version (probably 
> because I didn't 
> remove a couple of things correctly, but hey, I'm still kinda new here). 
> When I ran
> it from the cli it worked just like it should.  I've had no problems at 
> all even 
> after multiple kernel upgrades, started at 2.6.22.16 and last night went 
> to 2.6.22.19
> Compiz is running and all the eye candy is working.  I think that the envy 
> for 8.04 
> has had some major improvements and it is stable for me.  I recently built 
> my box 
> with all up-to-date components too.
> 
> Alan Dacey 
> GrokIt on the forums
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> 
can you hibernate? i'm still having hibernation problems here, it worked
in the kernel ending in 15, then stopped working in 16 and 17, it worked
fine in 18, and now in 19 it's not! when i click hibernate the screen
goes blank (actually off) and there would be a lot of disk activity, and
then nothing! the computers hang with no display, no disk activity but
still on and it stays this way for what appears to be forever (i left it
for 5 minutes), i guess i'll backup the system and try envy.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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