Envy and Kubuntu...whats the deal ?

[athlime]

I have a Dell XPS M1210 ( Geforce 7400 ) graphics.

I tried using the nvidia-glx-new driver for the computer but it doesnt work nearly as well as the default driver ( 1280x1024@60hz...Screen doesnt fit !!! Fonts bigger ! not as smooth as the default driver!

So I heard about ENVY, but that wont install on kubuntu....anybody know why ? It keeps saying its missing dependencies ! I followed all the instructions....can somebody help me with the graphic driver ?

Please..!!!

[athlime]

Re: Envy and Kubuntu...whats the deal ?


I tried fixing the missing dependencies w/ sudo envy -t...

It gets hung up on dkms ( what is that ? )

adam@adam-laptop:~$ sudo envy -t
ENVY: The following packages are not installed:
dkms

ENVY: attempting to install the packages
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gawk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dkms gawk
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 529kB of archives.
After unpacking 2355kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
gawk dkms
E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes

ENVY ERROR: The following packages cannot be installed:
dkms
adam@adam-laptop:~$

[athlime]

Re: Envy and Kubuntu...whats the deal ?

ok...i managed to install those missing apps via adept manager.

I may close this thread myself if it works :P

[dibl]

Re: Envy and Kubuntu...whats the deal ?

Excellent -- I was fumble-fingering a reply, but I guess you beat it into submission -- Nice Job!

I've been using Envy for more than a year and never heard of dkms and gawk, but I was going to suggest you do the install -f thing to force them.

[athlime]

Re: Envy and Kubuntu...whats the deal ?

Thnkx for the reply Dibl !

Im downloading the drivers via envy as we speak...

I really hope they work !

[dibl]

Re: Envy and Kubuntu...whats the deal ?

It also needs "fakeroot" and some python packages, IIRC. But the recent versions of Envy have done a good job of pulling in its own dependencies -- you really should not have to independently sort them like the early versions.

[SheeEttin]

Re: Envy and Kubuntu...whats the deal ?

dkms is relatively new. Something about kernel module management.
It was introduced into the fglrx driver installer in the 7.12 release, I believe.

gawk, I assume is GNU AWK... Yep, it is. I'm not familiar with awk, though.