Grub changes

[Karl Larsen]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
>
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>>   
>>>     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.
>>     
>
> And, as I'm getting tired of pointing out, you _don't_ have to use the new
> kernel.  If your old kernel is working, and the new one isn't, the install
> always leaves the previous kernel installed anyway.  So boot into that, and
> then see how you like the new Ubuntu...
>   
    Not on a new loaded system. Just one kernel.

Karl


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