[ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> 2008/11/8 Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>:
> > Sean Miller wrote:
> >  > We now seem to have a relatively stable system for him, but I've told
> >> him to leave NVDIA graphics out for the time being.  That REALLY
> >> screws everything.
> >>
> >
> > Ahh so I'm not the only one to think this then?
> >
> > When I upgrade I'll be most probably going back to an ATI X300 video
> card.
> >
>
> I have two machines with Nvidia cards in. A laptop with a 6800Go and a
> desktop with twin 7900GTs. I have zero problems upgrading these days.
> I stick to the general recommendation to use only the binary driver
> from the repository, and not from the nvidia website, and not using
> any helper applications (envy / automatix / ultimatix).
>
> Just works here.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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Automatix

*shivers in memory*

What an awful thing that was.
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