A few updates on EnvyNG, NVIDIA and URandR

EnvyNG: I have updated envyng-core (2.0) and envyng-qt (2.0) in Intrepid. The GTK interface doesn’t work and even if I managed to solve the problems with GTK and threading I couldn’t upload it since we’re in feature freeze. The new textual interface and the QT4 interface now rely on python-apt and python-xkit. Thanks to the […]

NVIDIA driver 177.67 in Intrepid

I have updated the NVIDIA driver 177.67 (still a beta) in Intrepid (a special thanks to Timo Aaltonen who sponsored the upload). If you still have 2D performance issues, you can have a look at this post (a special thanks to nullack for suggesting this link). NOTE: this driver won’t be available on Hardy until […]

NVIDIA driver 173.14.12 in hardy-proposed and intrepid

If you experienced problems with the NVIDIA driver 173.14.09 you might want to give version 173.14.12 a try. The driver is available on Hardy in the hardy-proposed repository (you will have to install it through EnvyNG, if you haven’t already done so) and should now work with Xen kernels too (thanks to a little trick […]