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.
Posted by Alberto Milone | January 22, 2007 2:50 am
Filed under: Ubuntu
Comments (43) |
January 22nd, 2007 at 5:16 am
Hi, please check the files, they aren’t downloadable from your website.
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.8.1-ubuntu3_all.deb
gives a file not found
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:21 am
georgz
try now
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
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
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:07 pm
polker
the download works fine here:
http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:15 pm
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)
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Peter Robbinson
press ALT+F1 when the screen goes black.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:35 am
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!
January 24th, 2007 at 2:37 am
i keep getting a md5 error when it tries to download the installer, i don’t know how to fix it.
January 24th, 2007 at 4:22 am
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
January 24th, 2007 at 7:34 am
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0028 (rev 11)
January 24th, 2007 at 7:53 am
I don’t know why you get md5 error. I have checked envy and the md5s match.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:22 am
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.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:33 am
you can find the installer in /usr/share/envy
I think you should try Envy’s latest release, by the way.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:59 am
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.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
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.
January 28th, 2007 at 5:17 am
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?
January 28th, 2007 at 5:26 am
thanos
Envy uses “sudo”, that’s why you don’t need to launch Envy with “sudo envy”.
January 29th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Can you create a script who automatically uninstall the driver if Xorg bug?
January 29th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
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.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
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).
January 29th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
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?
January 30th, 2007 at 4:08 am
Jim
you need to launch envy once you install it.
Please, read the instructions on my website:
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
January 30th, 2007 at 7:27 am
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.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
I too have the same md5 error as agostino using the latest release. I am using ati 9200se.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 am
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?
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
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.
February 5th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
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
February 5th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I am also getting an Md5 error
Running an ATI Radeon 9200 SE
on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy, clean install.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:21 am
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
February 6th, 2007 at 4:52 am
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.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:50 am
the Md5 error bug has been fixed in Envy’s latest release
February 7th, 2007 at 5:24 am
thank you alberto !!
I appreciate it !!
also module assistant and glx not work for me..
I have an abit siluro with nvidia geforce3
February 7th, 2007 at 6:49 am
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.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:33 am
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!
February 7th, 2007 at 10:01 am
try the latest release now
February 7th, 2007 at 11:45 am
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
February 7th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
fabrixx:
se stai usando Ubuntu (o Kubuntu, ecc.) prova l’ultima versione di Envy (appena uscita) envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu6
February 7th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Purtroppo uso la debian testing.
Il problema è proprio questo.
ciao
February 7th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
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
February 8th, 2007 at 2:21 am
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)
February 9th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
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
September 21st, 2007 at 12:02 am
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:~$
September 21st, 2007 at 10:06 am
download this file:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/100.14.19/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2.run
and put in in your :
/usr/share/envy/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/nvidia/