[Breezy] Problem getting nVidia Geforce 5200 card to work

[James Gray]

On Wednesday 21 September 2005 00:34, Christian Convey wrote:
> Thanks, that seems to have done the trick.  I'm not certain, but I
> think I needed to reboot after removing the Ubuntu packages you
> mentioned.

Cool - glad it's sorted :)

> According to glxinfo, the nvidia-supplied drivers are in effect now.
>
> Do you know...
>
> (1) Why I'm not seeing the nVidia logo screen as X starts up?

The NVidia driver has an option to suppress the vendor's logo when X starts - 
maybe that's a config option left over from the Ubuntu setup?  I haven't 
experienced that on Kubuntu for AMD64.  Google for the appropriate keywords I 
guess (sorry).

> (2) Is there any reason for me to use the nVidia-supplied driver
> installer, if we have Ubuntu-supplied packages that accomplish the
> same effect?

The Ubuntu drivers for Hoary are 7174 but the most recent ones from NVidia are 
7676.  Basically if you can live with the drivers being a few releases behind 
the latest, then stick with the Ubuntu package.  If you want the 
latest-greatest drivers to resolve bugs or support new NVidia cards, then use 
NVidia's installer (or run Breezy - which I *wouldn't* recommend on a machine 
you actually need to get any significant work done with)[1].

Application, driver and kernel versions are "frozen" for each release.  As 
bugs are squashed, updated packages become available, but the versions stay 
the same.  When Breezy comes out, we'll all have pretty close to the 
"latest-greatest" of everything :)

Cheers,

James

[1] Not wanting to start a flame war, but Breezy isn't the "stable" release 
for a reason, and I see many bugs being posted to this list and the forums.  
Breezy is coming along nicely, but I need stability more than the latest 
software; I err on the side of caution when recommending anyone to run Breezy 
too.  That's the whole reason I went to Debian back in the "Potato" days - 
stability, stability, stability :)
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