Anyone else get their machine hosed after last update?

[Karl Larsen]

Kim Briggs wrote:
> On 9/6/08, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:
>   
>> Anyone else have this this excitement today?
>>
>>     
> Yes, and no.  I did not have the same experience as you, but I put
> this information here for anyone wanting to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04
> with AMD_64 using this video card
>   
    I am using nVidia on a plain AMD 32 bit kernel. I get the kernel 
driver for nVidia with every kernel update so far.

> nVidia Corporation GeForce 6500
>
> Screen resolution would not go above 800x600.  Letting the proprietary
> driver take care of things reduce it to 640x480.  I've been installing
> *nixes since 2000 and my opinion was it is too late in the game to
> have to do special tweaks.
>
>   
    I got my desired 1280 by 1094 immediate after the initial install of 
the good nVidia drivers.

    It sounds like your 64 bit kernel is the problem. It may not work 
with the 32 bit nVidia drivers.
> I installed Debian 4.0 (r4) without issues.  I chose a max resolution
> on the monitor of 1600x1200 and it worked fine with the nv driver.
> I'm still happy with the Ubuntu machines I have, but it is nice that
> less is installed by default (I'm looking at you tracker) in Debian.
>
> cheers,
>   
    Sure sounds like a kernel problem.

Karl


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