NOTE: this post is aimed at Ubuntu Dapper users only (at least for the moment). I have started a community project thanks to which Ubuntu’s community can have the latest driver for ATI and Nvidia cards simply by adding a repository and performing an upgrade. All the users who are interested to participate can install […]
Some posts of my blog have already been shown on Ubuntu Planet but I haven’t introduced myself yet. My name is Alberto Milone, I attend the 2nd year of the 2nd level degree course “Lingue Moderne per la Comunicazione Internazionale” at the University of Lecce (Italy), where I got my 1st level degree in 2005. […]
This driver supports GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap and therefore AIGLX and Compiz should work now. Another amazing feature is “the new “Display Configuration” page for nvidia-settings. NVIDIA’s new display configuration options are similar to ATI’s dynamic display management options. TwinView can now be enabled real-time without restarting X (Xinerama requires X restart). TV-out on NVIDIA cards can also […]
Changelog: envy (0.4.2-1ubuntu10) unstable; urgency=low * Changed: if the driver can’t be downloaded from the ftp address envy will get it from the http mirror – Alberto Milone (tseliot) <albertomilone@alice.it> Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:07:43 +0200 As you can see from the changelog you shouldn’t have problems with the download of the driver as if […]
This is a great post by Mark Shuttleworth and which I couldn’t agree more with: “I’m of the opinion that Ubuntu could not exist without Debian. So it’s absolutely my intention to see that Ubuntu is a constructive part of the broader Debian landscape. It’s vital that Ubuntu help to sustain and grow Debian, because […]
“We have been working hard on improving our desktop integration with Qt lately. We automatically use the Plastique style if KDE is detected on startup. Starting with Qt 4.2, we intend to pick up the icon theme as well. This means that most of our standard dialogs, such as message boxes and file dialogs will […]