i hate nvidia drivers

[Alan_Dacey at horizonblue.com]

>On Thursday 12 June 2008 04:11:02 pm Willy K. Hamra wrote:
>> i got the system restored, it's all back fine, using the properietary
>> driver from the repos. the only time i remember that i got a working
>> nvidia setting other than using the repos, was using "envy", and that
>> was on feisty, but some people on IRC advised me not to use it as it 
can
>> create other problems, i was new to linux back then and took their
>> advice. does anyone on the list use envy? is it reliable?
>
>I use it, and I'm not sure what other problems it would cause that using 
the 
>restricted driver would not also cause.
>
>I think if you enable universe in Hardy (8.04) you can install it from 
there. 
>its called envyng now.

I've used the drivers from nVidia with Ubuntu 7.10 and had problems too. I 
finally 
got it working and then the 8.04 upgrade put me in a world of hurt.  When 
I did a 
fresh install of Kubuntu I decided to give envy a try.  This time I found 
it in the 
repros as 'envyng'.  I had problems running the GUI version (probably 
because I didn't 
remove a couple of things correctly, but hey, I'm still kinda new here). 
When I ran
it from the cli it worked just like it should.  I've had no problems at 
all even 
after multiple kernel upgrades, started at 2.6.22.16 and last night went 
to 2.6.22.19
Compiz is running and all the eye candy is working.  I think that the envy 
for 8.04 
has had some major improvements and it is stable for me.  I recently built 
my box 
with all up-to-date components too.

Alan Dacey 
GrokIt on the forums
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