[GRLUG] Ubuntu Lucid & nvidia

[Bob Kline]

I had a similar experience.

    -- Bob


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've had amazing luck with lucid.  Running Dell E6500 with NVDIA Quatro NVS
> 160M.
> A notification came up asking if I wanted to update Ubuntu to the latest.
>  I haven't had much luck and usually just reinstall the OS, but I decided to
> give it a shot.  I clicked "yes" and waited for the worse.
>
> It downloaded, installed and asked to reboot, while I was working on it.
>  Everything worked the first time.  Wireless, NVIDIA, dual Monitor setup.
> All the settings were saved from the old OS.
>
> I was really impressed.
>
> Sounds like I might be the only one :(
>
>
> Share and Enjoy
> Ben
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Luan Pham <luanlx.louie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 01:52 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> > >>  and was rebooted into low graphics mode, the nvidia kernel module
>> > >> failed to load.
>> > >
>> > > Look like the latest Nvidia kernel have a lot of problem.  I doing
>> > ok
>> > > with ATI and Intel so far.
>> >
>> > 10.04 does not play nice at all with the ATI Radeon 5770. I had to
>> > yank mine out and go back to onboard until I got everything else
>> > working again. (Which I haven't, yet; can't seem to get it to
>> > auto-start an md device my /home is supposed to be mounted from.)
>>
>> So far I had good luck with AMD 64 bits Lucid version, and I gradually
>> got every else to work well since I had been using Mandriva for a long
>> time.  Latest Mandriva kernel update it hose the whole /home directory
>> so bad, so I goes it Fedora 12 64 bits version and it will my whole HD
>> after three days of using it.  Now I had been using Ubuntu for last week
>> or so and so far so good.
>>
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