[GRLUG] Ubuntu Lucid & nvidia

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:07 -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> 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'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).

Yep,  I'm using openSUSE 11.2 on an HP laptop with Nvidia: everything
just worked upon install [which was several months ago].