i hate nvidia drivers

[Jared Greenwald]

If it makes you feel any better, I'm never able to get my setup
working with the nvidia-settings package either.  I have a twinview
setup on 2 21" CRT and I cannot ever get nvidia-settings to set the
resolution any higher than 1024x768 even though I know they support
1600x1200.  I ended up going through the gentoo-wiki.com twinview
sections and crafting my xorg.conf mostly by hand and keeping it
backed up in case of reinstall.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> back in feisty and gutsy, i always ran into problems using nVidia
> problems, and ending up with a lot of weirdeties,  so on hardy, i
> sticked to the driver supplied in the repos, and didnt use the one from
> nVidia's website, it was working  fine, actually it was working
> perfectly! but some sort of stupidity hit me today and i decided to
> install the one from nVidia's website! BAD DECISION! after reboot it
> complained about some "displayconfig-gtk" package needed, so i went to
> console and installed it, then it complained about hardware not
> recognised and i need to edit my settings, i edited them, X runs, but...
> nvidia settings will complain that the nvidia driver is not used, so i
> run "nvidia-xconfig" which stores the info about the driver in
> xorg.conf, and i end up with "displayconfig-gtk" complaining about a not
> detected hardware! if i configure anything, xorg.conf gets edited, and
> "nvidia-settings" won't be happy, so i got stuck. i restored a backup
> xorg.conf (after uninstalling the nVidia driver), and thought i was
> done! alas, i was wrong again, the restricted driver manager is showing
> me nvidia driver unticked, so i ticked it, and restart X, to get
> nothing! somewhere some file got edited and was not restored.but after
> the gutsy problems, i learned my lesson, i had a whole system backup
> just before the driver install, so now while i am writing this message,
> tar is digging through the hard drive restoring my files back,
> hopefully, everything will return to it's previous state, and taking a
> mental note to never install nvidia's driver till at least kubuntu 10.xx :P
>
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> Willy K. Hamra
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> Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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