[GRLUG] Ubuntu Lucid & nvidia

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 08:53:24AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders 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 :(

Not the only one.  A couple months ago my Debian laptop died.  I was
under a huge time crunch so I took over my wife's HP laptop (bleh;
horrible!  overheats while rsyncing to a USB hard drive!).  I couldn't
get Debian's installer to recognize either wireless or wired and I
didn't have time to figure it out.  Ubuntu recognized it right away so I
installed AMD64 on it and upgraded to Lucid when it was in Beta 1 or 2.
I'm mildly impressed, but not so impressed that I'll stick with Ubuntu.
I'll probably give Debian another go this week.  All that to say I
haven't had any problems with nVidia, dual monitor, wireless, etc. with
it.  Everything seems to just work (except sound, but that's the
motherboard failing from all the overheating; it happened with Vista for
my wife as well).
-- 
john-thomas
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