[GRLUG] Ubuntu Lucid & nvidia

[Kyle]

On 5/14/2010 8:53 AM, 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 :(

I had Wubi 9.10 (Windows installer for Ubuntu) loaded up on one of my 
machines, which worked beautifully.  I tried the built-in Upgrade 
system, and it pretty much trashed the virtual partition, necessitating 
a full reinstall of Wubi to get to 10.04.  Never did get my data back 
from that crash (not much of consequence - anything important I stored 
elsewhere or backed up).  It's certainly not a perfect system.  My 
experience actually had me a little concerned that they were 
recommending it to novice Linux users, so I'm glad to hear it does in 
fact work for some people.

- Kyle