[Ubuntu-SG] Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released

[Chen Xiangpeng]

Hey guys,

Feisty just upped the nvidia drivers to 9755 :-)

XP

On 3/26/07, Chen Xiangpeng <xp at xp.sg> wrote:
>
> Kerwin,
>
> Welcome to the club. I've broken X at least 30 times. hehe
>
> XP
>
> On 3/26/07, Kerwin Khu < kerwin.khu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Xiangpeng,
> >
> > Thanks, I'll try that once I'm sure my shiny new feisty is stable.
> >
> > I've had a fair amount of experience with X problems, earned the usual
> > way (i.e. the hard way). Fiddling with Nvidia beta drivers, then beryl
> > / xgl. So I'm game to try anything haha.
> >
> > Kerwin
> >
> >
> > On 3/26/07, Chen Xiangpeng <xp at xp.sg> wrote:
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > I had problems with older drivers too when i was on edgy and
> > similarly, i
> > > moved to binary drivers. With my recent upgrade to feisty, I moved
> > back to
> > > the packages and i would say that it's working fine :D Anyway, I am
> > running
> > > feisty on a DELL XPS 1210, with a GeForce Go 7400.
> > >
> > > The current nvidia-glx version on the feisty repos is 96.31 . If that
> > version
> > > works for you, you can consider reverting to it. You might get hit
> > with
> > > mismatched kernel module APIs if you aren't too careful though, but
> > that
> > > ain't too hard to fix :-)
> > >
> > > XP
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/26/07, Kerwin Khu <kerwin.khu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Billy, XP,
> > > >
> > > > Actually, I'm using Nvidia binary driver... My graphics card is
> > > > 6600GT. Not top-end, but not vanilla either :p
> > > >
> > > > Right now I'm using the Nvidia download rather than the nvidia-glx
> > > > package, which means I manually recompile the kernel interface every
> >
> > > > time I up kernel version (not just during dist-upgrade). It's a
> > > > hassle, so I will probably move back to nvidia-glx when it's version
> > > > catches up with the version I'm using (9746)
> > > >
> > > > Btw, I originally went with Nvidia download because of some display
> > > > issues I was having, which the newer driver seemed to have fixed.
> > > >
> > > > I guess this is the reason I don't experience display problems when
> > > upgrading...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 3/26/07, Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint < billy at ubuntu.sg>
> > wrote:
> > > > > On Monday 26 March 2007 10:13, Kerwin Khu wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > May I know whats your graphics card ? If i am not wrong they are
> > the
> > > usual
> > > > > suspect when moving from one version to next ..
> > > > >
> > > > > regards
> > > > > billy
> > > > >
> > > >
> >
>
>
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