Please update to envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb

Please update to envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb, it solves a problem with Dapper  which doesn’t use “dash”, therefore no symbolic link to dash or bash is created any more.

The update is warmly recommended to ATI users.

43 thoughts on “Please update to envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb

  1. hy alberto,

    i used your great programm in the past but the download still seems to be not possible :(… well – i’ll wait for it 🙂

    Nice Greeting from Germany

    Volker

  2. Okay, I’m on Dapper with the latest kernel. An Nvidia Go5700 card on an Acer1710 laptop.
    Fired up the latest Envy, picked #1 to update the driver.
    The screen went black immediately and nothing else happened.
    Rebooted after 10 minutes of waiting for something to happen and I’m back to my original screen (thank god)

  3. i have two computer with legacy cards, a geforce2 and a prophet 2 mx, i wonder if with this new envy i will be able to use compiz, because im really starving for it!

  4. Agostino
    1) you can’t use AIGLX + Beryl with the legacy driver (because the legacy driver doesn’t support a certain extension). You will have to use XGL +Beryl.

    2) please post the result of this command:
    lspci -n | grep 300

  5. well what it happens is this:
    it doesn’t even try to connect to the website, just gives me:
    md5 new:
    md5 sumold: many letters
    md5 error, operation abort.
    since i used your old envy script, maybe if u tell me where is stored the saved file i can delete it so that no checksum can be requested.

  6. you can find the installer in /usr/share/envy

    I think you should try Envy’s latest release, by the way.

  7. sorry i was not clear
    i have nvidia drivers installed by your old script that worked perfectly.
    i wanted to try this new one but i didn’t find a way to make it work. not even deleting the installer.

  8. try removing Envy in this way:
    type:
    sudo rm -R /usr/share/envy

    then:
    sudo aptitude purge envy

    and install Envy’s latest release (and try it).

    Maybe something went wrong when you upgraded Envy.

  9. Hey,

    Thanks a lot for your script. I was experiencing a problem where I had to re-install the NVIDIA driver everytime X was starting.

    After running your script, everything is fine!

    A question though, I run it with my regular user without sudo and the script managed to kill the X server and put me in command line. How did it do that?

  10. Other suggestions:

    – Automatically update the driver when the company (AMD or Nvidia) create a new version of its driver.
    – Automatically check if it has a new version of the driver after an update of Xorg.
    – Automatically uninstall the driver if Xorg bug.

    – Create a version of your software for other distribution who don’t use the debian technologie.
    – Put your software on the Web site of AMD-driver* and Nvidia.

    *ATI is a part of the AMD company.

  11. pierluc
    1) what do you mean by “automatically uninstall the driver if Xorg bug”?

    2) – Automatically update the driver when the company (AMD or Nvidia) create a new version of its driver.

    It wouldn’t be an easy task since I have to modify Envy manually when a new driver is released.

    3) – Automatically check if it has a new version of the driver after an update of Xorg.

    this is something which Ubuntu should do.

    4) – Create a version of your software for other distribution who don’t use the debian technologie.

    This would mean writing Envy almost from scratch for every distro.

    5) – Put your software on the Web site of AMD-driver* and Nvidia.

    It would be nice but I think Envy is not ready

    I will develop a GUI which will make Envy much more user friendly (of course you will be able to run envy from the command line as well).

  12. I have a geforce 3 t1200, installed envy on edgy eft, everything looks good but graphics are really slow. Do I have to do something to enable 3d acceleration?

  13. I ran Envy from the terminal, it ran and I see an improvement in the way graphics look but I get really low framerates, 2 or 3 a sec. Thanks for the script and prompt answer. Im a newbee and really appreciate the help.

  14. Don’t you all have also the problem of connecting? When I run it, it never actually downloads the driver from us.downloads.nvidia whatsoever.
    Or am I doing something wrong?

  15. 1) what do you mean by “automatically uninstall the driver if Xorg bug”?

    ??? Sorry, I’me not very good in English (Angliche). I will try to rewrite my sudgestion with the canadian-english dictionnary.

  16. I’ve installed Debian testing and i’m not able to have acceleratet driver in the standard mode…

    Only envy work for mt card…….

    What the envy secret ??
    There is not a script also for debian testing??

    Thank you.

    Fabrizio

  17. Hi Alberto,

    I too get the dreaded md5 checksum error with Envy latest during driver install, only Envy .73 works for me, I have an older machine with GeForce 256DDR which needs legacy drivers, I am on Ubuntu 6.10 with all the latest patches.

    regards
    Arup

  18. darksalmon, Arup Roy Chowdhury, etc.:
    I’ll look into the Md5 error

    fabrixx:
    thanks. Maybe I’ll make Envy support Etch when it’s released as stable.

  19. thank you alberto !!

    I appreciate it !!

    also module assistant and glx not work for me..

    I have an abit siluro with nvidia geforce3

  20. fabrixx:
    what do you mean by “also module assistant and glx not work for me”?

    feel free to reply in Italian if you so wish.

  21. Hi!

    I still get the “md5-error” even with the latest release… I have tried to remove the old version as described above. The 0.73 version worked fine for me, is there any way to get a hold of it?

    I have a Geforce 2 GTS 32 MB from Asus.

    Any help is appriciated!

  22. Ciao.

    Ho provato a installare i driver prima dall’installer ufficiale, poi tramite il module assistant ma mi da sempre errore del server x.

    Ora sto riprovando con dei glx aggiornati che mi hanno passato.

    Ho anche rimosso Load “dri” da xorg.conf come mi è stato consigliato ma per ora nulla.

    L’installer ufficiale non mi andava neppure con ubuntu.

    Solo con envy risolvevo, per me era una manna dal cielo…….

    Ciao

  23. fabrixx:
    se stai usando Ubuntu (o Kubuntu, ecc.) prova l’ultima versione di Envy (appena uscita) envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu6

  24. Alberto Please Help

    I’m getting the md5 error when trying to download the legacy driver for NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS , I tried it last week on a geforce 4 mx440 and it ws ok but now she spits me out everytime

  25. Andytof47:
    try the latest release of Envy envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu6

    It should solve your problem (I tried it with a legacy card as well)

  26. Ho risolto pure io…….

    Dovevo mettere i legacy, avevo una scheda vecchia e non avevo capito che quelli erano appunto per quello.

    Grazie per le risposte

    Ciao 🙂

  27. Problem should speak for itself.?

    Please select one of the activities displayed above and press ENTER:

    1
    Ubuntu Feisty 64bit
    Your graphic card has been detected as a GeForce 7600 GS
    Your graphic card is supported by the latest driver

    OK: All the packages are installed
    Checking the Dependencies for the New Method

    OK: All the packages are installed

    OK: All the packages are installed
    No installer detected
    Download of the driver in progress, please wait
    –11:01:45– http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/100.14.19/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2.run
    => `NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2.run’
    Resolving us.download.nvidia.com… 210.55.204.215, 210.55.204.208
    Connecting to us.download.nvidia.com|210.55.204.215|:80… connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
    11:01:45 ERROR 404: Not Found.

    md5sum: /usr/share/envy/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/nvidia/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2.run: No such file or directory
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “interface.py”, line 24, in
    objects.mainmenu()
    File “/usr/share/envy/instun/objects.py”, line 980, in mainmenu
    menu1.process()
    File “/usr/share/envy/instun/interfaceclasses.py”, line 60, in process
    objects.nvinstconfirm()
    File “/usr/share/envy/instun/objects.py”, line 878, in nvinstconfirm
    confirmation.gotoop = nvidiainstall()
    File “/usr/share/envy/instun/objects.py”, line 142, in nvidiainstall
    nvidiainstall2()#CONTINUE THE INSTALLATION
    File “/usr/share/envy/instun/objects.py”, line 96, in nvidiainstall2
    task.getdriver()
    File “/usr/share/envy/instun/classes.py”, line 1310, in getdriver
    print ‘md5new: ‘ + self.details[‘md5new’]#md5new
    KeyError: ‘md5new’
    plasma@plasma-galaxy:~$

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