Final Image Testing for Utopic!

[chris hermansen]

Just to add some better news... but 1325801 offers a workaround, which made
everything work with installation albeit at 1024 X 768.  also bug 1295961
which deals with the non support in nouveau of the GTX750 card offers a ppa
which gives a clean installation of the needed (proprietary) drivers.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:41 PM, chris hermansen <clhermansen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nicholas and list,
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Nicholas Skaggs <
> nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/16/2014 03:03 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>>> On 16 October 2014 19:17, chris hermansen <clhermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nicholas, list;
>>>>
>>>> One problem I have run into that I'm not clear on how to report - it
>>>> seems
>>>> that my NVIDIA 750 is not correctly supported and I am put in a really
>>>> low-resolution graphics mode.  In fact, so low resolution that I can't
>>>> read
>>>> the bottom half of the screen settings, and of course that window can
>>>> not
>>>> be resized
>>>>
>>> You can move a window on screen by holding down Alt and mouse dragging.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>  Chris, Colin is correct, so you should be able to slide any windows you
>> need to into view. As to the bug, I would report it against the nouveau
>> driver which is what would be used during the installation. I have a few
>> questions that would be useful to answer in the bug report. Does this
>> happen during a live session as well? After installation, does the desktop
>> still boot into a low resolution?
>>
>> Thanks for testing!
>>
>>
> Thanks, Nicholas.  As it was, I had to run live because of bug 1325801
> which affected me as well.  Live was the ultra-low resolution view, I'm
> guessing 640 X 480.  Once installed, the system booted into a slightly
> higher view (didn't check but I bet it was 1024 X 768).  The latest NVIDIA
> driver offered by the repositories does not support the 750.  And sadly, I
> was unable to get the NVIDIA generic installation to work though it runs
> fine on my 14.04 installation.
>
> Sounds like a bunch of bug reports in all different directions...
>
>
>
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>
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>



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