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Envy: It is an application (written in Python and PyGTK) which automates the installation of both ATI and Nvidia's proprietary driver on Ubuntu ...

Ubuntu's Bleeding Edge Driver: It is a project which aims to provide always the latest stable driver for ATI and Nvidia cards in Ubuntu via my repositories ...


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Ubuntu's Bleeding Edge Drivers  (languages: Eng)

  Instructions


 
 

NOTE: Use the drivers at your own risk.

Let us get to the very purpose of this page:

The idea is that of starting a community project thanks to which the community can have the latest driver for ATI and Nvidia cards.

All the users who are interested to participate can install the drivers and share their experience on the followinf thread of ubuntuforums.org so that the drivers can be tested on as many machines as possible:


Feedback thread

Only after proper testing they will be deemed stable.


Download and import my GPG key in order to authenticate my repository:

wget http://albertomilone.com/drivers/tseliot.asc

gpg --import tseliot.asc

gpg --export --armor albertomilone@alice.it | sudo apt-key add -


HOW TO ADD the REPOSITORIES:
1) Open Terminal or Konsole and type:

sudo nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list

2) Add one of my repositories to the bottom of the file

Click Here to get to the page of my repositories

3) Press CTRL+X to exit (save the file) from the text editor (nano)

4) Refresh the list of packages:

sudo aptitude update


* IF you have not installed any version of the driver

To install the NVIDIA driver

follow "METHOD 1" of one of these guides:

Guide for Ubuntu Dapper 6.06
Guide for Ubuntu Edgy 6.10


To install the ATI driver - type these commands:

sudo aptitude install  xorg-driver-fglrx

sudo aticonfig --initial

sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv

Then open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and add the following lines to the end of the file:

Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection




* IF you have already installed the driver from Ubuntu's official repositories just update it:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade



NOTE: Say "yes" if it complains about "untrusted" packages 


Then REBOOT (otherwise it might not work)

* IF you installed the driver from Nvidia's or ATI installers (from their websites) you will have to uninstall the drivers and then install it from these repositories.

WARNING!
Make sure that neither the word "nv" or the word "flgrx" is  in inverted comas after the word DISABLED_MODULES= in your /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common





SPECIAL THANKS to

Rodrigo Parra Novo (aka rodarvus) for being so patient with me and answering all my question and also for providing the webspace during the first phases of this project.

Adam Conrad (aka infinity) for the challenge

Benjamin Mako Hill (aka mako) for suggesting the way in which I could contribute and in which I could collaborate with the developers (rather than "working around" them)

ubuntu_demon for introducing me to Rodrigo and for planning some good projects which I hope to be able to show you in the next future.







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