Grub changes

[Karl Larsen]

steve wrote:
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>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>>     I have Intrepid up but it is not useful because it can't be used
>>>> yet for a nVidia computer.
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>>> 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>
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>>     In the release notes it says:
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>> 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.
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>>     This means the nVidia drivers that work so well in Gutsy and Hardy 
>> are NOT AVAILABLE in Intrepid.
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>> Unless you know more than I do it seems my computer and thousands others 
>> will not be able to use Intrepid.
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> I doubt that, what about backports?
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> enable backports in synaptic, and try linux-backports-modules-intrepid
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> anyone have experience with this?
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I have zero experience with backports. What is it?

Karl

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