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Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 01:01:47 UTC 2014


Hey there,

Scott DuBois wrote:
> On 11/16/2014 04:34 PM, Little Girl wrote:
> > I took a look at that, and from what I was able to see, you did
> > end up getting it to work with startx by changing video drivers,
> > right? For what it's worth, we use the NVIDIA drivers straight
> > from NVIDIA and don't use the ones in the Ubuntu repositories at
> > all.
> 
> Well, I tried that and it was not the issue at all; in fact, it made
> things worse so I switched back to Nouveau. The open source driver
> seems to work better with my old 9800GT card. I don't get the use
> of all the fancy NVidia "tweak" software, but it does the job.

Ah, okay. I was hoping it was the solution, because that would be
easy to document.

> > What I wonder at is why they make so many changes so often rather
> > than trying to get things ironed out. What ever happened to slow
> > and steady wins the race? (:
>
> Nah, it's all about "move fast and break things" now. =)

I noticed. ):
 
> I feel most Debian based distros seem to be pretty stable anyway,
> especially forks of Ubuntu.

I imagine so. I don't know, though, because I've been a dedicated
Kubuntu user since Feisty Fawn, so I haven't messed around with the
other distributions much. (:

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.




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