Grub changes

[Karl Larsen]

Rashkae wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>     I have Intrepid up but it is not useful because it can't be used
>>>> yet for a nVidia computer.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> That statement is a little too broad. See release notes re nvidia:
>>> <http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810#nVidia%20%22legacy%22%
>>> 20video%20support>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     In the release notes it says:
>>
>> The 71 and 96 series of proprietary nVidia drivers, as provided by the 
>> nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-glx packages in Ubuntu 8.04, are not 
>> compatible with the X.Org included in Ubuntu 8.10.
>>
>>     This means the nVidia drivers that work so well in Gutsy and Hardy 
>> are NOT AVAILABLE in Intrepid.
>>
>> Unless you know more than I do it seems my computer and thousands others 
>> will not be able to use Intrepid.
>>
>>     
>
> That's the legacy driver, only for Geforce 1 and Geforce2 graphic cards
> (I can't tell you off the top of my head how old those are, but they are
> quite old).
>
> Even without the legacy driver, Xorg should still be able to drive those
> cards reasonably well with the open source 2d driver.
>
>
>
>   
    Mine is not legacy. It is a GE Force 6100 and it did work fine with 
Gutsy and Hardy. Why it fails with Intrepid is a mystery to me.

Karl


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