Intrepid Blues

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu Oct 30 00:22:16 UTC 2008


Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>>     It appears that Intrepid will never work with my computer. The 
>> release notes say the needed drivers are not available.
>>     
>
> I find this unlikely.
>
> I take it you are referring to the part about the "legacy" nvidia video
> drivers ?
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810
>
> You said you have a GeForce 6100 in another post ?
>
> The nvidia driver release notes
>
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/177.80/README/appendix-a.html
>
> Clearly say this is compatible with the 177 driver, so you should be
> just fine (Unless your CPU doesn't support SSE, which again I find
> unlikely unless it is *very* old).
>
> I suspect your problem is more your installation is messed up.
>
> Chris
>
>   
    Chris how is my installation messed up? I told the LiveCD to 
Install. It did so. Then it said reboot. I did so. By the way I checked 
my CD and it said it was good. So when Intrepid came up it was a 800x400 
off center display. I have not been able to fix this.

I think your wrong.

Karl


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