[ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

[Kris Douglas]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Lucy <lucybridges at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/04/2008, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip lots of good stuff]
>
>  Nice write up, I'm sure it'll be useful to someone, but out of
>  curiosity have you tried Envy [1] at all? I've been using it for about
>  9 months and have found it a very easy way to get the latest ATI
>  driver without having to really think about it (sadly the free driver
>  doesn't work with my gfx chipset).
>
>  [1] http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

Thats a nice link you have there, Lucy, but the problem is on the
newest cards you don't get a GUI, it just refuses to start.

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