[ale] NV drivers (formerly "no subject")

[Richard Faulkner]

Your point is a good one regarding open-source vs. restricted drivers.
To that end I did try an upgrade to 10.04 but didn't have any luck
there.  I had hoped the new NV drivers would help but that was not the
case.  Same issue...

At least I got to see what the process was like in doing an upgrade of a
build.  Not terribly different from watching grass grow.  (I wasn't
happy with that old build anyway so trashing it was nothing to me...)

Still...I'd like to see about getting by this issue if for nothing else
to say that I've done it.  Learning curve...

Will be hitting the web on this one some more tomorrow as I'm working
another issue regarding CentOS Live CD on this same box as
well...(posting on that too)



On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 00:04 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 03/25/2010 11:34 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> > Yeah...I could do that but that's not really the point.  I'm ditching
> > the Windows world for Linux and am starting at home.  I'm getting ready
> > to start Linux certs and recant from my MCSE way of life.  
> > 
> > At one time I had tried hacking the randr entries but all that did was
> > get 1680x1050 listed in the drop-down for resolution selections but was
> > not recognized as a valid resolution on selection.  Very curious...
> > 
> > Since I've gotten over that hump and found that a simple config file
> > will do the trick I'm looking elsewhere as the culprit that's causing
> > this video failure.  NV indicates it as an X issue and in looking at the
> > boot sequence I'm driven to suspect it as an X issue as well.  But then
> > again I am a noob to Ubuntu as having been away from Unix/Linux for
> > 10-years on any consistent basis.  Getting ready to start on certs for
> > Linux and turn from the "darkside".
> 
> My thought is that if you use the proprietary, binary-only nvidia driver
> you're throwing away all the work you did getting a working xorg.conf
> with the free, open source nv driver.
> 
> Whatever it is that you want to do with the nvidia graphics tools,
> perhaps there is another way of doing it that does not depend on
> proprietary software.
> 
> It might also be worth booting the Ubuntu 10.04 beta live cd, which
> replaces the nv driver with the noveau driver, to see how well it works.
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1
>