Comments on: Envy bugfix release, new web page, updated FAQ

By: David

David — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:50:35 +0000

That did not work. Also I read that the latest Nvidia driver for 8800GT makes fan run at 100% (which is *very* noisy), so I will sadly give up on Ubuntu and go back to XP for now.

Hopefully this will all get fixed over the next few months as Hardy is developed. I can then try and move to Ubuntu again.

By: David

David — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:00:05 +0000

Thanks, I tried that (small typo in your instructions – it should be ‘envy –uninstall-all’). It appeared to work but when I rebooted I had the same problem – Gnome desktop was painted but so distorted I could not read any of it. Also, mouse and keyboard seemed to be non-functioning.

I then tried:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

This worked and I’m now back with functioning desktop.

I’m now trying some tips from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4125275 to get my 8800GT working.

By: albertomilone

albertomilone — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:52:20 +0000

@David
Boot in Recovery mode and type:
envy –uninstall-all

then type:
reboot

By: David

David — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:30:12 +0000

Alberto,

I tried the hack you referenced. The auto install did not work (did not detect supported graphics card) so I selected manual install. This appeared to work and requested a reboot. On reboot I was only offered ‘emergency’ resolution (640×480) and mouse did not work.

I rebooted again. This time the display was locked + distorted (not displaying Gnome) with mouse and keyboard locked out.

Not sure how I recover from this, so I might go back to 7.10 and hope I can get my 8800GT working there. :/

By: albertomilone

albertomilone — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:30:57 +0000

@metamotion
try this link:
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/ubuntu/envy_0.9.9-0ubuntu6_all.deb

By: metamotion

metamotion — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:22:24 +0000

I’m new to ubuntu, installed 7.10 using the alternative cd. I get a black screen after splash, so I’m trying to get envy to work. But I’m stuck in the command line. I tried this:
wget http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.9-0ubuntu6_all.deb and got back 404 not found.
I did get the path to work for envy_0.9.7_0ubuntu2_all.deb after following your instructions on a previous blog post. I then installed, following your instructions, and updated dependencies. But after launch with envy -t command, I get a failure message “envy doesn’t work with your operative system” (not precise language; my apologies.
My guess is that the newest release of envy will work better. Can you provide the correct wget path?

Many thanks for all your good work.

By: Hudson Barreiros da Silva

Hudson Barreiros da Silva — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:04:08 +0000

I’m using opera v9.50 Beta 2 b1754 for linux and your site is perfect. I’ve found no bugs. tkz for new envy
(sorry, my english is bad )

By: albertomilone

albertomilone — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:03:30 +0000

@gene
You should ask here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

By: gene

gene — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:55:05 +0000

Alberto,
I already knew that my card runs 96.43.01, my question was why can’t I run the 169.xx drivers ? I can install 169.xx video drivers for windows and those drivers fix a GoogleEarth crash problem there, so why can’t I get the 169.xx drivers for Linux ?

By: David

David — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:04:48 +0000

Thanks, Alberto – I’ll give that a try.

Great news that you’re working with the dev team to integrate.