Updates for EnvyNG and Envy Legacy

I’m working on EnvyNG every day. I’m fixing as many bugs as possible. Here’s a list of what’s changed in EnvyNG and Envy Legacy:

Improvements in EnvyNG-core:
* New connection detection method (based on Network Manager)
* Update compatibility list
* Update translations
* Use unicode (utf-8) for the translators' names
* Use an additional xorg.conf parser in order to set the default colour depth

EnvyNG checks the availability of an Internet Connection either by asking Network Manager (through dbus) or (if you don’t use network manager) by using only Python’s “urllib2”. This solves Bug 211620.

The latest update of EnvyNG-core includes an additional xorg.conf parser which should finally solve the problem with ATI cards which don’t have a “defaultdepth” option set in xorg.conf. This made the Xserver crash (at times?) since the fglrx driver assumed that the default colour depth was 8bit.

Improvements in EnvyNG-qt:
* The links in the about dialog can be selected with the mouse cursor
* Fix complete dialog showed up when restart dialog should have
* About dialog can expand now
* Fix if both EnvyNG-qt and -gtk are installed, -qt should be the one which is launched on KDE

Improvements in EnvyNG-gtk:
* GTK filechooser points to /home by default

Bugfixes in Envy Legacy:
* Fix Bug #210392 in classes
* Catch exception in classes.restorenvfolder()
* Add "n/a" to dkms blacklist so the unofficially dkms is not installed
on Debian Lenny (Lenny is still unsupported)

Should you find other bugs, please report them to me.

73 thoughts on “Updates for EnvyNG and Envy Legacy

  1. Firstly I would like to thank the excellent program!

    The envy greatly facilitates the installation of the drivers of video.

    Congratulations!

    But I saw reports that it is necessary to make changes in drivers to work under the kernel 2.6.25.

    You could in some way help me to the envy continue working in that situation?

    Thanks

    Hqx

  2. alberto,
    I upgraded from 7.10 to hardy today. Nvidia drivers were working just fine as was compiz desktop effects. now on hardy I cannot get compiz to start even tho the nvidia drivers are installed successfully and seem to be working fine. glxinfo reports look ok to me, glxgears run fantastic, as well as GE, and other 3D apps….just can’t get compiz to start. I don’t know if you can help here or do I need to report a bug to ubuntu ? nvidia 7950 GT w/169.12 running 64bit drivers. no other problems as far as I can see just compiz fails…”Desktop effects could not be enabled” error message. never had that problem on 7.10

  3. alberto,
    FYI, there was another file in that directory called “/usr/bin/compiz.envy”, I did not send that file because you did not ask for it, but while looking at it it appears to be the same exact file as the one you asked for, just a different name. let me know if you want/need that one.

  4. gene@AMD64:~$ sudo compiz –replace
    [sudo] password for gene:
    Checking for Xgl: not present.
    Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:02e4 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
    Checking for non power of two support: present.
    Checking for Composite extension: present.
    Comparing resolution (1600×1200) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
    Checking for nVidia: present.
    Checking for FBConfig: present.
    Checking for Xgl: not present.
    /usr/bin/compiz: 406: /usr/local/bin/compiz: not found

  5. alberto,
    Yesterday I installed 8.10 RC on a Toshiba notebook with intel 945gl video and compiz runs just fine. So I issued the same command on that computer to see what should be displayed:

    Checking for Xgl: not present.
    /usr/bin/compiz.real ( video ) ……….

    different compiz file ???

  6. ok, I did file compare of both files and they are different. I compared them because the notebook does NOT have EnvyNG installed, nor does the notebook have the compiz.envy file and everything works…..I am sending you the compiz.envy file in case that is the problem to your contact address.

  7. @gene
    weird…

    Make a backup of your/usr/bin/compiz

    Look for these lines in /usr/bin/compiz:

    COMPIZ_BIN_PATH="/usr/local/bin/" # For window decorators and compiz
    PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/local/lib/compiz/"
    GLXINFO="/usr/bin/glxinfo"
    KWIN="/usr/bin/kwin"
    METACITY="/usr/bin/metacity"
    COMPIZ_NAME="compiz" # Final name for compiz (compiz.real)

    and make them look like these ones (you will have to edit the file with sudo):


    COMPIZ_BIN_PATH="/usr/bin/" # For window decorators and compiz
    PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/compiz/"
    GLXINFO="/usr/bin/glxinfo"
    KWIN="/usr/bin/kwin"
    METACITY="/usr/bin/metacity"
    COMPIZ_NAME="compiz.real" # Final name for compiz (compiz.real)

    Then launch compiz again and see if it works.

  8. YOU ARE THE MAN ! it is working……

    I have no clue how that file could have been changed from what you wanted or from what Ubuntu put there, I have never opened that file or looked at it. before I did the upgrade compiz and all desktop effects were working like a charm, then I upgraded and it was broke, so I can only assume that something in the upgrade process changed the path to point to the local directory, I know for certain that I did not.

    Thanks for the help.

  9. I know this is not an envy issue but does the following glxgears results seem reasonable to you ?

    with compiz enabled:
    gene@AMD64:~$ glxgears
    23438 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4687.519 FPS
    23495 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4698.958 FPS
    23428 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4684.629 FPS
    23468 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4692.231 FPS
    23024 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4604.780 FPS

    and now with compiz disabled:
    gene@AMD64:~$ glxgears
    68816 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13763.079 FPS
    65525 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13104.875 FPS
    71323 frames in 5.0 seconds = 14264.418 FPS
    71262 frames in 5.0 seconds = 14252.267 FPS
    71330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 14265.861 FPS
    69973 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13994.419 FPS

    That seems like much more of a hit than I would expect….(I’m telling you because you have direct access to the dev’s and are more likely to know whats reasonable or unreasonable in my opinion if it needs to be checked or reported)

  10. @gene
    I think it’s normal. It should improve in the future though (both with the driver and with the Xserver in general).

  11. It’s works!! but I must apply the emerald theme manually with:
    emerald -replace.
    do you know something about that?
    thanks for all!!

  12. I still can’t get compiz working, even after I made the changes to /usr/bin/compiz. It starts, then it just seems to freeze, leaving my windows without a windows frame manager until I restart metacity.

    Here’s my compiz output:
    ripps@ripps-desktop:~$ compiz –replace
    Checking for Xgl: not present.
    Detected PCI ID for VGA: 02:00.0 0300: 1002:4150 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
    Trying again with indirect rendering:
    Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
    Checking for non power of two support: present.
    Checking for Composite extension: present.
    Comparing resolution (1280×1024) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
    Checking for nVidia: not present.
    Checking for FBConfig: present.
    Checking for Xgl: not present.

  13. Oh wait… It’s working now.
    The only problem now is that I still have really slow scrolling in Firefox and slow/flickering 3d applications.

  14. @Andreas
    I will add it soon, after Hardy is released I will file a SRU so that the new packages can be uploaded. (EnvyNG and its packages are in multiverse)

  15. Just a +1 for looking at 2.6.25. On booting and the envyng module installer running it gives an error, something along the lines of “initial DKMS build must be done against 2.6.25”.

  16. There is a well known problem with the latest versions of fglrx and kernel 2.6.2*: the system freezes when pressing alt+strg+backspace or when one ends the session. See
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/107115
    and
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22/+bug/118605
    for example.

    In the later thread a user offer a patch that seems to solve the problem. It did so for me, but only until envyng got updated. Couldn’t you include the patch in envyng as long as no other solution is found?

  17. @Bjorn
    I had a look at that patch and I’ve noticed that it’s included in driver 8.4 therefore I’ll just include the new driver.

    I’m working on it.

  18. Thank you so much for this awesome programm. envyNG finally made my crappy fire gl 5250 working!
    thanks a lot!

  19. Tentando di installare e anche solo di scaricare e salvare i drivers NVIDIA della mia scheda (in Hardy Heron appena installata) il programma mi restituisce questo errore e si blocca:
    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
    warnings.warn(“apt API not stable yet”, FutureWarning)
    hai qualche suggerimento

  20. @Pigiz
    Quello è un avvertimento, non un errore. Devi essere paziente perché i repository sono lenti. Usi envyng-qt, vero?

  21. Si ovviamente avendo installato Kubuntu 8.04. Ti ringrazio della velocita’ della risposta. Ti sapro’ dire se riesco o se mi da problemi cosicche’ tu possa risolvere (vedo che rispondi anche in italiano :-P)

  22. Ti invio un nuovo messaggio dal dialog box
    Titolo: ENVYNG non ha potuto portare a termine l’operazione selesionata a causa del seguente errore:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “pulse.py”, line 75, in
    autoChoice(sys.argv[1])
    File “pulse.py”, line 15, in autoChoice
    objects.nvidiainstallg(data1)
    File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Envy/objects.py”, line 84, in nvidiainstallg
    task.nvidiaInstall()
    File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Envy/classes.py”, line 1076, in nvidiaInstall
    check.checkntry(packages)
    File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Envy/classes.py”, line 306, in checkntry
    raise Exception(error)
    Exception: (‘nEnvyNG ERROR: The following packages cannot be installed:’,)

    per la precisione ho tentato di installare i drivers NVIDIA con la selezione automatica degli stessi. La mia scheda e’ una NVIDIA Geforce 6200. Ti preciso anche che con la Kubuntu 7.10 e la versione legacy del tuo programma non ho mai avuto alcun problema anzi era veramente tutto immediato.
    Grazie per la tua pazienza.

    Pigiz

  23. @Pigiz
    i server di Ubuntu non reggono tutti gli scaricamenti di questi giorni. Ti conviene riprovare più tardi.

  24. Se dici che il problema e’ solo quello legato al traffico che ci sta in queste ore va bene. Riprovero’ tra qualche giorno (o settimana mi sa’). Grazie anche per la tua disponibilita’
    Pigiz

  25. Volevo solo ringraziarti per questo grandissimo programma, ora che sono passato ad Hardy, noto con piacere che è inserito nei repo e che le sue funzionalità sono ancora più immediate e automatiche!!!
    (da quel che ho capito, per esempio, se esce un nuovo driver, questo appare nel gestore aggiornamenti!!! fantastico!!!)

  26. Ciao Alberto,
    Ho appena installato Kubuntu 8.04 e non riesco ad installare i driver con EnvyNG. Mi da il messaggio

    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
    warnings.warn(“apt API not stable yet”, FutureWarning)

    Ho visto in un altro post che dicevi che era solo un avvertimento, ma a me sopra scrive che non ha potuto portare a termine l`operazione. Cosa devo fare?
    Grazie per l`aiuto

  27. @gene
    Yes, I know. I told the author of that post what was causing the problem.

    @Rbino
    Mi devi dare l’errore completo altrimenti non ti posso aiutare.

  28. @Rbino
    Allora usa la versione GTK per ora.

    digita:
    sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk

    sudo envyng -g

    E prova a installare il driver da lì.

    Aggiornerò EnvyNG al più presto.

  29. Con EngyNG-gtk me lo installa, però continuo a non riuscire ad usare gli effetti desktop Compiz di Kubuntu 8.04. In più quando avvio il sistema mi da

    fglrx (8.455.2): already installed on this kernel

    e riesco ad avviarlo solo in Recovery mode. Me lo dava anche prima di usare EnvyNG ma speravo che installandolo avrebbe risolto. Dici che dipende dal fatto che ho aggiornato la versione di Kubuntu senza disinstallare qualcosa?
    Grazie

  30. Mi correggo, ho provato ad rimuovere fglrx e a reinstallarlo e non mi dava più quel problema, ma quando installo i driver con Enby e riavvio mi da

    fglrx (8.455.2): already installed on this kernel

    Cosa devo fare?

  31. I was wondering if this will ever support the ATI 8.04 driver No confusion with hardy heron version number here) ?!?!

    Cygoku

  32. Hey Alberto,
    great work on EnvyNG. I simply love the ease of use and improved system integration.
    Sadly there is still no update or at least status update concerning the availability of the new Ati Catalyst 8.4 drivers.
    The 8.3 drivers included with Hardy are a pain in the buttocks. It has been almost three weeks now since the release of the 8.4 drivers which even promise better Hardy Heron support. The 8.5 are due in about a week.
    Is there any hope that we will see either one of those drivers in the near future in EnvyNG? Could you maybe give us a small status update? This would be highly appreciated.
    Cheers
    Frank

  33. @freibooter
    I have already packaged the driver but there are things which we have to fix in Ubuntu first :-/

  34. Thank you so much for all your hard work and your reply at least helped me understand the delay a little bit better.
    Maybe a short blog post informing people about what needs to be fixed first in order to make the 8.4 drivers available and maybe even a roughly estimated time frame would keep people happy and stop them from asking stupid and annoying questions like “Is there any hope that we will see the new Ati drivers in the near future in EnvyNG?” 😉

  35. Complimenti per il tuo buon lavoro e i tuoi continui sforzi!
    Io non sono molto abile… ed ho da poco installato l’8.4 a 64 bit, e volevo rimettere GoogleEarth, ma una volta installato, all’avvio mi fa ripartire tutto il sistema…
    Seguendo vari forum ho visto che non avevo l’accellerazione 3D, e ho tentato di nistallare schede e driver con EnvyNG (sia con gtk che con qt. quale sarebbe comunque quello giusto?), ma se seguo l’instasllazione automatica, mi da errore con una “chiusura inattesa” ed un crasch, e nella finestra tipo terminale:
    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
    warnings.warn(”apt API not stable yet”, FutureWarning)

    …… per finire con l’ultima riga così:
    Exception: EnvyNG ERROR: ATI card not found

    Se invece provo ad installare i driver manualmente… succede un semi disastro e mi ritrovo con la risoluzione solamente di 640×480!!! Che ho poi dovuto risolvere con la riconfigurazione di xserver-xorg.

    mi sai aiutare? grazie
    Paolo

  36. ECCOLO, e grazie:

    paolo@paolo-laptop:~$ lspci -v
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
    Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
    Capabilities:

    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 99
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
    I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
    Memory behind bridge: e2100000-e21fffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-efffffff

    00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

    00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
    Flags: medium devsel
    I/O ports at 8100 [size=32]

    00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (prog-if 80 [Master])
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 16
    [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
    [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
    [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
    [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
    I/O ports at 2000 [size=16]

    00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC’97 Modem Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
    I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
    I/O ports at 1c00 [size=128]
    Capabilities:

    00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC’97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 173, IRQ 18
    I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
    I/O ports at 1c80 [size=128]
    Capabilities:

    00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
    Memory at e2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

    00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
    Memory at e2003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

    00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23
    Memory at e2004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Capabilities:

    00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 173, IRQ 19
    I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
    Memory at e2005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at 58000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities:

    00:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 19
    Memory at 58020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
    Memory window 0: 50000000-53fff000 (prefetchable)
    Memory window 1: 54000000-57fff000
    I/O window 0: 00002400-000024ff
    I/O window 1: 00002800-000028ff
    16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

    00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. TravelMate 2410
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
    Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

    00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
    Flags: fast devsel
    Capabilities:

    00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
    Flags: fast devsel

    00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
    Flags: fast devsel

    00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
    Flags: fast devsel

    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0083
    Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 7
    BIST result: 00
    Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
    Memory at e2100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
    I/O ports at a000 [size=128]
    Capabilities:

    paolo@paolo-laptop:~$

  37. @Paolo
    hai cercato di installare il driver ATI su una scheda video Sis:

    VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter

    Ecco perché non funziona. EnvyNG non supporta le schede video Sis.

  38. Grazie Alberto,
    mi sapresti dire come posso quindi fare per far funzionare GoogleEarth?
    Ho però bisogno di essere guidato praticamente in ogni passo… se possibile

  39. I just installed Hardy x64. Envy is crashing it repeatedly because the installation fails and leaves the hard disk in a read-only state. It says that a log file was not written to or something like that. I’d paste the info, but the computer crashes. It was something like ‘E: Failed to write commit log’.

    A few reboots, and dpkg –configure -a, apt-get autoclean, etc and it seems to be working again, but updates are frequently failing.

  40. @ztirffritz
    There must be some other problem. Even if I wanted, I couldn’t make your hard disk read-only.

    Maybe you should check your RAM just in case there’s some faulty RAM module.

  41. Maybe it is a dependency installed with EnvyNG. I’ve installed Hardy several times now on this computer, and it fails EVERY time that I try to install Envy. I tried this last time with a completely fresh installation before ANY updates were installed and it did the same thing. I did it after updates last time and it did the same thing. It works great on my laptop though. I appreciate your work. I just want to know what is happening and how to fix it. the Apt cache becomes corrupted and it generates a segmentation fault.
    I guess it is possible that there is faulty RAM. I installed it before I had a 64bit OS, so half of it has never been used. I’ll look into that.

  42. I tested them all and they were fine. But the problems seem to have gone away because I reseated all of the RAM and things appear to be working. Envy installed and worked fine. Thank you for the tip. I should have thought of that.

  43. Hi Alberto,

    NICE work on this program! It finally got my dual screen setup working. I did want to let you know about two bugs:

    1) After I log in, it takes about two minutes for my desktop environment to appear. During those two minutes, I just have one Ubuntu-orange screen, and one black screen, though I can move my mouse from screen to screen successfully. Afterwards, my desktop appears and I can use my computer.

    2) My first screen is always perfect. My second screen is always displaced. Sometimes, it is very far to the right (with a lot of black space on the left), sometimes vice versa. It is never centered, though.

    I am using an ATI Radeon X850XT card, and a dual screen setup. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit.

    Keep up the great work!

  44. Something broke with the Nvidia driver. When I rebooted it put me into low resolution mode. I tried to uninstall the nVidia driver using Envy and it looked like it succeeded. I rebooted and it was back to using the old nv driver, but at least it worked. Then I tried to reinstall the nVidia driver but it won’t work. Reboot sets it back to low res mode. Is there a way to manually remove the nVidia driver to make sure that it is entirely gone? Then restart the process with Envy again? I’m not sure what broke it. The last thing that I tried before it broke was installing Virtualbox.

  45. Ciao Alberto,oggi ho aggiornato envyng-gtk da repository ubuntu,però all’avvio crasha. Questo è l’autput da terminale:

    jonny@localhost:~$ envyng-gtk
    File “/usr/share/envyng-gtk/envynggtk.py”, line 7, in
    from Envy import objects
    File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Envy/objects.py”, line 12, in
    import interfaceclasses
    File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Envy/interfaceclasses.py”, line 9, in
    import objects, classes, main, idcardlist
    File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Envy/classes.py”, line 34, in
    from progress import TextProgress
    ImportError: No module named progress

    Ciao

  46. Ciao,
    ho aggiornato da poco da Gutsy a Hardy, ma ho seria crisi con la scheda video.
    E’ una Nvidia GeForce4 440MX, non la riconosce in alcun modo: ho provato ad usare il tuo programma ma al riavvio mi dice che non rileva alcuna scheda video e parte a risoluzione minima. In driver hardware mi dice che nessun driver proprietario è in uso e sull’info hardware mi vede la presenza della scheda video (peccato che sia l’unico a darmi prova che non mi sia stata rubata durante la notte.. :(( )
    Che fo?

  47. Okay um, i cant even get this to show up in my applications. I have installed the ENVYNG-GTK 1.1deb file onto my system sucessfully. But it dosnt apear in my applications or anywhere! any help please?

  48. Ciao Alberto, ora che sono usciti i Catalyst 8.5, entro quando dovresti riuscire ad inserirli in envyng????cmq sei una grande …uno dei tool più utili se non il + utile per i driver video è proprio il tuo…complimentoni…

  49. Hi, Alberto, frist of all, congarts man! Nice work, you made linux’s neighborhood very proud! i`ve been use envy since ubuntu 7.10 and it was so helpful…you can’t even imagine!! Linux ATI Catalyst 8.5 was just released…When are they going to be integrated into EnvyNG? Is it a stable driver?? Sorry for may bad english, i`m brazilian e i love italian soccer.

  50. Hi, thanks for your work on Envy! I do have a question though.. If i’m asking for the 1000th time please excuse me:

    When will the Ati 8.5 driver supported? I’m building my htpc around the 780g motherboard and up till no, I’m having a bit of a tearing problem with the 8.3 driver.. Hoping that -maybe- the 8.5 driver will fix this (please…)

  51. Thank you for your wonderful work Alberto!
    I replaced the default Nvidia 169.12 driver with the 173.14.05 driver using EnvyNG and now hibernate is working on my Thinkpad T61p!
    However there is still a minor problem: during boot-up, I still got an error msg saying that “/etc/rc2.d/S20dkms_autoinstaller: line 82: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/169.12/source/dkms.conf: no such file or directory”.
    Any idea how to get rid off this error message?

  52. @Han
    type (BE CAREFUL when you type these commands):
    sudo dkms remove -m nvidia -v 169.12
    sudo rm -R /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/169.12
    and ignore the errors of the 1st command.

  53. Thanks for all your hard work!
    After screwing with binaries from apt-get, and trying to install manually with dated instructions (Which had your pic next to it). EnvyNG finally got it working.

  54. Hi Alberto, many thanks for your fantastic installer.

    I wonder when you will next be updating the version of the nvidia driver that envy installs.
    I have just got a gtx 275 (released in april) and it requires 185.x or later to run I beleieve, and is certainly not recognised with the 173 driver from envyng.
    Had the usual lack of joy trying to manually install the driver from nvidia’s site so stuck with the nv driver for now. 🙁

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