What hour will 8.10 be available?

[Alan_Dacey at horizonblue.com]

>Alan_Dacey at horizonblue.com wrote:
>> Does anybody know the exact time that Intrepid will be available for 
>> download?  I know it's tomorrow, but I can't find anything announcing 
the 
>> hour.  Would it be midnight London time?  I want to get one of the 
first 
>> copies so I can torrent it.
>>
>> Alan Dacey
>>
>> 
>    I got my copy yesterday. It has a rc in the title but it loaded. If 
>your video driver is not nVidia it should load just fine when ever you 
>get it. My version first came up with a terrible screen and asked if I 
>wanted the nVidia non-ubuntu software which I do and this didn't work. 
>It failed and asked if I wanted to send a error message. I said yes. It 
>failed again saying several files like jockey and pigen are old versions 
>and it would not work.
>
>    I got 130 updates which took an hour plus and when I rebooted it 
>came up with NO X-Windows! So I plan to stay with Hardy and wait until 
>the new version is fixed up enough you can load a nVidia system properly.
>
>Karl

That's the release candidate, not the final version.  The real 8.10 should 
have very little updates.
The easiest way I found to fix the Nvidia driver problem is to use envyng. 
 I'm not on a good OS right now so my package names may be a bit off, but 
these are the basic steps:

(from a terminal)

sudo apt-get install envyng-core
<then depending on your desktop type one of the following:>
        for gnome-->sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk 
        for kde---->sudo apt-get install envyng-qt

        <after install>
envyng -t
        <select 1>
        <watch it download and compile and start a good looking session>

Alan Dacey

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