Help with resolution settings

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 17:34 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:

> Nothing to do with Canonical.
> 
> If I recall the way things worked in the past months, as you are aware 
> nVidia is a proprietary driver, and not open source, and nVidia decided 
> that they will provide a driver which would work with any Linux distro - 
> which is why Canonical, or any other Linux distro, has nothing to do 
> with the situation.

Not quite so, old Hammurabi. The factory supplied nVidia installer puts
things in different places than Ubuntu does. So, the hardware installer
puts the official nVidia driver stuff where Ubuntu wants it to be put.

God help you if you mix and match, as you'll have library files all over
the place. Someone is deviating from the X11 Consortium's lib file
structure then. I don't want to spend all day figuring that one out. Too
freaking old and too little time! Plus, we have Canonical insisting on
Nouveau being installed at first as well. I THINK I recall that it has
to be removed prior to installing nVidia. 

Pain in the tail and a road paved with tears. :) Ric

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