When Feisty Official Rel. comes out Can I "update all" and not break my NVidia?

[teastman]

Ok I've been reading all the hair pulling on both Ubuntu and Kubuntu forums about Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 cards (and above). Seems a lot of confusion about what card is legacy supported and what is not.

There also seems to have been a period where the *ubuntu drivers themselves were swapped around or just plain wrong as far as legacy versus not.

(Due to lack of knowledge on my part) I wound up re-installing my Kubuntu 7.04 three times this last weekend because going through the default update/install routines delivered with 7.04 for the Nvidia cards always broke my graphics settings.

The settings are at this point completely bare with a "NV" card with "NV" drivers and I can get around at 1024x768. I have touched nothing since the last install because every time I install the glx "new" or the glx "legacy" Nvidia drivers (as of last weekend) things just plain went dark.

Here's the question;

When Feisty is officially released will the install/update routines correctly configure for my Nvidia card or will I have to go through a lot of manual reconfiguration routines?

Once the official release is installed would future "updates" break my settings like what happened last week? I had it installed correctly once and the download updates (lower right hand corner icon) broke it.

Thanks
Tim

[dibl]

Re: When Feisty Official Rel. comes out Can I "update all" and not break my NVid

Wow -- Tim, you have beat my record of 2 Feisty installs in a single weekend.

However, I installed one each of Kubuntu 32-bit, and Ubuntu, 64-bit, so there!



Seriously, I have seen the FX5200 posts -- Nvidia's site clearly indicates that -9755 supports it, but perhaps there are variants in their chips, or bugs in their driver.

Personally, I'm planning on doing a clean reinstallation of Feisty-everything in a couple of weeks when the hubbub has settled down and any horror-stories about the final released version are in the public. That will include using nvidia-glx-new from the repos for my GeF 7900GS, and following the procedures described here:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081783.0

Your choice -- your mileage may vary ....

[teastman]

Re: When Feisty Official Rel. comes out Can I "update all" and not break my NVid

Dibl I assume you are refering to the instructions that you posted for me (Reply #6) April 14, 2007, 11:37:10 am. Prior to that I did download that driver from NVidia because it was listed ion their site to support that card. The thing I want to avoid is having to redo everything everytime there's an update. That drove me nuts with SuSE.

I'm holding off too I think. Everything I've worked with so far on 7.04 has been really nice except for the Nvidia issue (and my ntfs drives disappearing - I still haven't got that fixed).

When things stabilize though - I'm jumping in!

Wow -- Tim, you have beat my record of 2 Feisty installs in a single weekend.

However, I installed one each of Kubuntu 32-bit, and Ubuntu, 64-bit, so there!



Seriously, I have seen the FX5200 posts -- Nvidia's site clearly indicates that -9755 supports it, but perhaps there are variants in their chips, or bugs in their driver.

Personally, I'm planning on doing a clean reinstallation of Feisty-everything in a couple of weeks when the hubbub has settled down and any horror-stories about the final released version are in the public. That will include using nvidia-glx-new from the repos for my GeF 7900GS, and following the procedures described here:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081783.0

Your choice -- your mileage may vary ....

[dibl]

Re: When Feisty Official Rel. comes out Can I "update all" and not break my NVid

Cool. I also wanted you to observe michel's excellent procedure for installing the proprietary Nvidia driver, should you choose to go that way.

[teastman]

Re: When Feisty Official Rel. comes out Can I "update all" and not break my NVid

Cool. I also wanted you to observe michel's excellent procedure for installing the proprietary Nvidia driver, should you choose to go that way.

Okay - I wasn't quite sure about one of his instructions though;

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential gcc xserver-xorg-dev

What is 'uname -r' is that my sudo username or the name of the driver package I downloaded or is that the command line verbatim?

[assettt]

Re: When Feisty Official Rel. comes out Can I "update all" and not break my NVid

i may be wrong on this but i think `uname -r`is the kubuntu kernel version you are currently using. you enter the command on konsole and it will indicate the kubuntu kernel version.

[dibl]

Re: When Feisty Official Rel. comes out Can I "update all" and not break my NVid

`uname -r` is the pseudonym for your kernel version. If you type

uname -r

at your login prompt, it will return your particular Linux kernel version. But, if you simply insert

`uname -r`

in a command sequence, such as michel did in the example, then it will read it as "your specific kernel version", so it's a way to avoid having to type "linux-kernel-2.6.20-14" or something like that.

Note that the characters surrounding `uname -r` are the one found in lowercase on your tilde key in the upper left of your keyboard, and are NOT apostrophes.

[teastman]

Re: When Feisty Official Rel. comes out Can I "update all" and not break my NVid

(snip)
Note that the characters surrounding `uname -r` are the one found in lowercase on your tilde key in the upper left of your keyboard, and are NOT apostrophes.

Holy cats! Good thing you told me that one - I would have been beating my head on the keyboard within ten minutes!

Once again - thanks for your reply.

Tim