8.10 problems

[Karl F. Larsen]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
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>>> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com>  said:
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>>>> I found a non-ubuntu kernel image with the Sympatic package 
>>>> system and installed it. Rebooted and it must be the image they use
>>>> to get the 600X600 image I now have. I give up. Support for a nVidia 
>>>> computer using a 6300 series nVidia hardware is non-existant on  8.10 
>>>> today. This is odd because Hardy has fine support for nVidia 6300
>>>> series.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Hi, Karl,
>>> Have you tried doing in automagically using envy-gtk?  It's in the
>>> repos and worked well for me.
>>> Here's what it does:
>>> ------------------------
>>> install the ATI or the NVIDIA driver
>>> EnvyNG is an application written in Python which will download the
>>> latest ATI or NVIDIA driver or the Legacy driver (for older cards)
>>> (according to the model of your card) from ATI or Nvidia's website
>>> and set it up for you handling dependencies (compilers, OpenGL,
>>> etc.) which are required in order to build and use the driver.
>>> Also, I'm pretty sure the repos are up, at least the main USA ones.
>>> Are you having problems with them or getting error messages when you
>>> reload your package list?
>>> -------------------------
>>> And the name of the program is, "syNAPtic," not, "syMPAtic."
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard
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>>>       
>>     Well I tried on this computer in 8.10 and get:
>> karl at Poor-old-8:~$ sudo apt-get install envoy-gtk
>> [sudo] password for karl:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree      
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Couldn't find package envoy-gtk
>> karl at Poor-old-8:~$
>>     It appears it is no longer available, like everything else :-)
>>
>> Karl
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> It isn't available because you have mis-spelled the package name. Take 
> the "o" out of it so it reads "envy-gtk" and you will have no problems 
> getting it.
>
> FWIW I had problems getting my nVidia card drivers installed, and my 
> solution was to install display-config-gtk which puts a menu entry at 
> Applications, Other called Screens and Graphics.
>
> This gui tool gives you an interface which allows you to select the 
> Makes, and Models of your video card, and monitor, and then gets your 
> drivers and sets up xorg.conf properly for you.
>
> I had tried everything else that has been suggested to you already 
> before trying it, and it was what finally worked for me.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
>   
    Since the current load of 8.10 is so bad, and I have a very large 
hard drive I loaded a new 8.10 and with great care checked the CD, it is 
perfect, and then watched it load and there were zero errors. When this 
new one came up in a few minutes it came up with "Hardware Drivers" and 
I clicked on that. It came up and said I should use nvidia 177 so I did 
and it failed because "jockey-gtk" and many others are obsolete package 
versions.

    I discovered you can call "Hardware Drivers" anytime you want from 
System-Admin-Hardeware-drivers. So will do that on the old 8.10 and see 
what happens.

Karl


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