[CoLoCo] Gutsy Nvidia drivers

[Ryan Maki]

I've got an HP laptop with an 8600GS and the beta dumped to the  
bulletproof X screen at the first startup.  No biggie, (and a much  
better situation than dumping to the console.)  After two minutes I  
had it working with the nvidia (closed) drivers.  The hardest part  
was getting my screen resolution selection to *stick* between  
reboots, but that seems to have been cleared up by an update in the  
last three days.

I don't have Compiz Fusion running though, it worked for the first  
two days and another update killed it.  Now as soon as I enable any  
of the desktop effects it crashes the window manager.  But again, X  
handles it much better than it did in feisty, it doesn't even dump to  
console, just wait about 30 seconds and it will restart your previous  
window manager.  At least if it does crash it recovers smoothly!

~ Ryan


On Oct 9, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Mitch Smith wrote:

> On my laptop with the 128mb GO 7300 the nvidia drivers are working  
> fine running Gutsy beta.  Looking in the development forums it  
> seems hit and miss depending on which card you have.
>
> Mitch Smith
>
> "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to  
> build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe  
> trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is  
> winning."
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:50:37 -0400
> > From: thezorch at gmail.com
> > To: ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] Gutsy Party Roll-Call / RSVP
> >
> > O.O Wow, this is no small update! I'm actually curious to see if
> > the Nvidia drivers will work properly this time. I'm assuming  
> they'll
> > be the new open-source drivers and not the closed source set that I
> > haven't been able to get Feisty to enable. I'm also very interested
> > in Compiz Fusion. I've seen it in Youtube videos for a while now.
> >
> > Whenever anyone bragging about how great the Vista Aero Glass  
> desktop
> > is I point them to a few Compiz/Beryl videos on Youtube. It shuts
> > them up really quick.
> >
> > I have lost most of my respect for MS. I've been in IT for nearly 10
> > years and I've never seen a more unstable and totally unreliable OS
> > than Vista. I read about how upset people are in forums all over the
> > web. People were a little upset when XP was released and how
> > different it was but this is nothing compared to how enraged some
> > users are with Vista. I don't plan on going that route, which is why
> > I'm going with Ubuntu as my main OS in a dual-boot configuration  
> with
> > XP for my online games that won't work in Crossover Linux, Wine or
> > Cedega.
> >
> > On 10/9/07, phillip tribble <phillip.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Read my presentation @
> > > http://phillip.tribble.googlepages.com/index.html
> > >
> > > On 10/9/07, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm going to sound like a complete and total noob when I ask  
> this, I'm
> > > > a noob to Linux but not Windoze, what are some of the
> > > > differences/improvements between Feisty and Gutsy Ubuntu?
> > > >
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