Comments on: A few updates on EnvyNG, NVIDIA and URandR

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:16:09 +0000

I have installed ubuntu linux 9.04 on my old ibm x31. I wanted to install a better driver for my ati radeon Radeon M6 LY. I installed envy and enabled the radeon driver and it destroyed the interface. I now get some gibberish that looks like a tapestry. In any case, it is unusable. I am reinstalling ubuntu. I would like to have a better driver but I am a college prof, not a programmer. Is there a way to use something like envy? Any help would be appreciated.

Andy

By: nicefinger

nicefinger — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:50:21 +0000

Hi.
Two questions:
1) When un-installing the proprietary ATI, the driver defaults to “vesa”, not “radeon”. Why?
2) Whith the prop-ATI I have two Xorg processes running. Why?

My system:
Celeron D 3.06
ATI 2400 PRO, PCI-E

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:14:58 +0000

Hi all,

I too am looking forward to the new drivers, but let not be impatient. Alberto has all ready answered the question when.

Quote: If you don’t uninstall EnvyNG, you will receive the new release of the driver automatically with Ubuntu’s updates. I will made the updates available after a while so as to have the time to test the new driver. Furthermore I work on this project in my spare time, therefore donations are welcome (see the Paypal button in the right sidebar of this page).

By: Dave Wise

Dave Wise — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:58:03 +0000

Out of curiosity, does the legacy 96.43.05 driver work with Intrepid? I’d love to update but I’m a little hesitant…

By: Fabiano

Fabiano — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:40:33 +0000

For Intrepid Ibex you can download the last ATI driver from the repository.

We thing that the driver are fglrx 8.11 BETA because there is the support for x.org 7.4

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:05:34 +0000

EnvyNG is great! But it doesn’t support the latest 177.80 driver for NVIDIA. Is there a way to easily manipulate the script ourselves to make that possible, or alternatively, when do you hope to upgrade EnvyNG? Thanks.

By: H.i.M

H.i.M — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:09:23 +0000

Hey Alberto,

i would be very very pleased, if you could update envyng for hardy with the new 177.80 driver by nvidia.
On all my workstations are both KDE4 and new Nvidia GPUs used. So please make a much better usable desktop possible!

thanks in advance
h.i.m

By: Boscorama

Boscorama — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:09:51 +0000

But Hardy is LTS so Ibex shouldn’t be the issue, right? Or do I have that wrong?

By: elcamilo

elcamilo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:55:46 +0000

And ATI Catalyst™ 8.10 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver have been released….ok, ok. We’re all waiting the Intrepid Ibex!

By: Han

Han — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:46:25 +0000

Hi Alberto, Nice work!
Would you please update the 177.80 driver for Hardy? It is a main update and is said to solve many of the graphics problem in KDE4.