Grub changes

[Karl Larsen]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:43 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Which should only matter for the cards that are not supported by the
> newer (and presumably better) drivers in Intrepid.
>
>   
>> Unless you know more than I do it seems my computer and thousands others 
>> will not be able to use Intrepid.
>>     
>
> They should be able to use the free nv driver, and in fact it should be
> chosen automatically at installation time. And, according to the release
> notes, upgrades from Hardy (if the computer has one of the affected
> cards) are transitioned to use nv automatically.
>
> The only thing that should be lost by this transition is 3D
> acceleration.
>
> It seems that this has not worked for you for some reason.
>
>   
>> Very sad.
>>     
>
> Yeah, well, complain to Nvidia. That's the deal with proprietary
> drivers, sooner or later the vendor wants to sell you a new card. Same
> as in Windows.
>
>
>   
    I know about nv. It gives me an off center 800x400 image lacking in 
any detail and one I have been able to improve in Hardy and Gutsy. Not 
in Intrepid.

Karl


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