Envy Release Notes
• Desktop Effects with NVIDIA cards
∘ Try to enable the Desktop effects, let Restricted Drivers Manager install the driver again, then (don’t reboot) use Envy again and finally reboot.
• The ATI module couldn’t be loaded at times.
∘ usually a depmod -ae solved the problem but I’ve tried to fix the problem.
∘ I even managed to get the driver to work on Gutsy’s livecd (I had to log out and log in after the installation of the driver instead of rebooting, which I couldn’t do, but I warmly recommend you to reboot). The desktop effects worked also on the livecd (they were a bit slow though).
• The new ATI driver is available in Envy
• NVIDIA’s new BETA driver is not included in this release.
∘ I might release an unstable version of Envy for this. Later…
• Envy no longer depends on “nvidia-xconfig” to set up your xorg.conf
∘ Envy has its own Xorg parser now.
• The list of ATI/AMD cards has been updated
∘ Radeon HD cards should be automatically detected.
• You can either use Envy or Restricted Drivers Manager. Please don’t use them together.
∘ Should you decide to use Restricted Drivers Manager after using Envy you will have to undo what Envy did, by typing:
∘ sudo envy –uninstall-all
P.S. I’ll set up the repositories as soon as I have the time. In the meantime you can get Envy here.
Here is the changelog of envy 0.9.8-0ubuntu13:
envy (0.9.8-0ubuntu13) gutsy; urgency=low
* Fixed: Serbian localisation was used in a Czech locale environment
* Fixed: Corrections to the Russian translation
* Added: Czech translation
* Fixed: the description in debian/control didn't mention the ATI driver
as you can see, the Czech had to use Envy localised in Serbian and, since I doubt that all Czechs can speak Serbian, I think this is a useful update 
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Translators:
Czech: Tomáš Klouda
I have developed a Xorg parser so as not to depend on “nvidia-xconfig” any longer. I’m quite happy with the result but I haven’t had the time to integrate this new module in to Envy yet.
This new module will allow me to simply tell it, for example, to add/change/remove an option to the “Device”, “Screen”, or “Extensions” section (in xorg.conf) with a command such as the following:
customoption('UseDisplayDevice', 'DFP', 'screens')
or the following:
customoption('Composite', 'Disable', 'extensions')
Stay tuned for more updates.
This new release will make your experience with ATI and the Desktop Effects a bit easier (in Ubuntu and in its derivatives). The fglrx driver was not included in Compiz’s whitelist in Ubuntu Gutsy, therefore ATI users were not able to use the Desktop Effects. Envy is now able to solve this problem for you (but it will restore the old whitelist if you uninstall the driver from Envy, in case you’re wondering). Of course the Desktop Effects will work only if you use the ATI driver 8.42.3.
I have cut (and resized) the logo since it didn’t fit certain screens in low resolution (please remember that the textual install should fit any screen). Furthermore the following translations were added: Danish, Norwegian, Romanian, Taiwanese, Ukrainian.
Translators
Danish: Søren Bjerrum
Norwegian: Kjetil Rydland
Romanian: nokia
Taiwanese: Jose Sun
Ukrainian: Artem Gluvchynskyj
P.S. You can get Envy here as usual
