Envy 0.8.2 features a new option (“5 – Install the ATI/NVIDIA driver Manually”) which will enable users to choose the version of the (ATI/Nvidia) driver between the list of available drivers instead of relying upon Envy’s automatic detection.
Of course automatic hardware detection is still there.
Posted by admin | February 19, 2007 2:30 pm
Filed under: Ubuntu
Comments (44) |
February 19th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
good idea!
February 19th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
envy is getting better and better!
February 20th, 2007 at 9:42 am
[...] Feb 20, 2007 in Ubuntu, Kubuntu Taken from: Envy 0.8.2 has been released! [...]
February 20th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Do you work on a graphical version of Envy?
February 20th, 2007 at 10:20 am
pierluc:
Yes, I’m working on it ;)
February 20th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Is there any probable date for a feisty compatible version?
February 20th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
I tried so many how-to’s and forum posts that I thought it is impossible to make ma Laptop Ati Radeon Mobility X300 working with 3D acceleration.
Today…
I tried envy (legacy driver) and I have working 3D acceleration on my edgy – Im happy :)
Thanks Alberto
February 20th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Alberto is the god of graphical driver :lol:
February 20th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I would love to see Envy on feisty too.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:53 am
Hi Alberto,
Here is my experience under KDE and Envy, earlier I was on Gnome and there was no problems, under KDE, its quite strange, upon exiting X and logging on to terminal and typing Envy and entering option 1 to install driver, the whole screen goes blank with a Kubuntu splash, then all I see is blinking cursor, however, my router lights blink indicating activity, also the hard drive light blinks from time to time, this happens for around 10 minutes when light activity stops, I then tried typing kdm start command but nothing happens, so I hit ctrl+alt+del and then the system reboots and guess what, the nvidia splash screen comes on indicating driver has been installed, going into login, 3D is enabled. Just wanted to convey my experience with Kubuntu and Envy.
February 21st, 2007 at 10:36 am
Arup Roy Chowdhury:
it’s all written on my website: you need to press ALT+F1 if the screen goes blank
February 21st, 2007 at 11:50 am
Alberto,
I did that but nothing happens, anyways thankfully the driver installed, as you know, the nvidia legacy installed via synaptic or package manager from Ubuntu repositories also adds the i386 kernel, it removes the generic kernel and makes SMP systems useless, only your Envy installs the drivers without flaw.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Alberto,
An update, installed your latest Envy and tried ALT+F1 and it worked flawlessly, thanks again.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:45 pm
It has a new ati driver:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux64/linux64-radeon.html
February 21st, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for envy, i’ve installed the nvidia driver on my Ubuntu Dapper and it works very good.
Thanks Alberto ;)
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:04 am
what irony, a long time ago you (on ubuntu forums) told me how to setup my geforce fx5500. if it wasn’t for you, i was going to give up linux and use windows. now i can’t stand using windows at school, i love linux. this is awsome, thanks alberto!
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:37 am
Installed envy 0.8.2 and used it to install ATI driver.
I have a 9200. After this, no graphics – terminal only.
That backup of xorg.conf it makes is quite handy.
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:32 am
how far is your work on Envy-Fiesty Fawn?
like “pierluc” and “mundano” I can’t wait to see it.
You got some deadline?
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
The AMD driver don’t work with the radeon 9200:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux64/linux64-radeon.html
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Does Envy work with SLI? Dual 7900 GTs, to be exact?
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Look on the web site of the company (AMD or Nvidia) Envy is juste a tools to install the driver.
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Alberto, I have see beautiful png logo of ATI, AMD and Nvidia, I think it will be useful for the graphical version of Envy.
http://www.customxp.net/images/PngFactory/4747_9440_ATI_South_Park.html
http://www.customxp.net/images/PngFactory/4035_14041_ATI_Dahu.html
http://www.customxp.net/images/PngFactory/index.php?search=amd
http://www.customxp.net/images/PngFactory/index.php?search=nvidia
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Hi there, I just wanted to inform you that I recently tried your newest Envy for Dapper and had problems. I have a AGP XFX GeForce 6200 128mb vid card. I installed the 9631 driver from your repos back in Sept 06 and then when my machine upgraded to kernel 2.6.15-28-686 i lost my xserver so I tried updated my sources.list because you changed your repo for dapper and did an update and a dist-upgrade but the new nvidia-glx would not get installed. Then I decided to use Envy, I first did the uninstall option and then did the install option but it was just bringing me to a failed xserver blue screen and it was sayign that it couldn’t load the nvidia module because it couldn’t find it. So I thought maybe that Envy wasn’t doing a sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx so I did that myself and suye enough, now it works. I am using the 9746 now with direct rendering etc etc. I don’t know if this is a good glxgears score but I get around 1300 fps. Just thought I would let you know in case there is something that needs to be fixed but it may have been due to my install or something. I can’t say for sure as I am very new to linux. Great program though.
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
pierluc:
I’ll update the ATI driver ASAP.
Sean:
you will have to enable it manually by typing:
sudo nvidia-xconfig –sli=Auto
Daniel:
Envy does not rely on Ubuntu’s Nvidia packages. I don’t know why Envy didn’t work for you. You can send me your /var/log/nvidia-installer.log if you want (so that I can see if something went wrong)
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Tryed many how-to’s. at last I find envy and it did fix my nvidi driver to work on the uppdated kernel
THANKS!
February 24th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Great Script, works perfectly with edgy and my geforce 7950GT ;)
Thanks a lot ;)
February 24th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Thanks a lot for your work.
February 24th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Envy didn’t work for me (neither in dapper nor edgy). I have an abit nf7s rev2 nforce2 mboard and gigabyte 256MB ATI9600 pro. If you want any logs i would be only too happy to supply them. Keep up the good work on this wonderful tool.
February 24th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
to DaveHand and all the ones who have problems with ATI cards:
Add these lines to the end of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Code:
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AIGLX” “off”
EndSection
I’ll make Envy set this automatically in the next release
February 24th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Have just done as you asked and X fails to start.
Some errors in Xorg.0.log
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Option “VendorName” is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option “ModelName” is not used
Also, before install, glxgear gives error
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
February 24th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
DaveHand:
open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and put a # before the word BusID
then restart the Xserver and see if it works
February 24th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Doesn’t help i’m afraid. A bug in Edgy or the drivers perhaps?
February 24th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
can you post the result of this command?
lspci -n | grep 300
February 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
dave@davesbuntu:~$ lspci -n | grep 300
02:00.0 0300: 1002:4150
February 24th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
remove the # before the BusID and set the BusID to PCI:2:0:0
If it doesn’t work then I don’t know what to suggest.
February 24th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
It already is PCI:2:0:0. Commenting it out made no difference.
On clean install +updates, glxgears give error
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
8409 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1681.647 FPS
8357 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1671.398 FPS
8392 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1678.387 FPS
8413 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1682.598 FPS
13889 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2777.800 FPS (minimised)
25182 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5036.370 FPS (minimised)
now
dave@davesbuntu:~$ glxgears -printfps
1249 frames in 5.0 seconds = 249.601 FPS
1244 frames in 5.0 seconds = 248.766 FPS
February 24th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Sorry for ruining your blog… Just wondering – On dapper one of the fixes was “sudo depmod ae”. This doesn’t appear as a fix for Edgy but did give me success in dapper (i think – it was very late. I could check again for you if you want)
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:51 am
feisty fawn support please
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
it worked flawlessly with my GeForce 6150, using ubuntu 6.10.
Thanks, ubuntu needs stuff like this
March 4th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Hello,
I just wanted to say thank you for Envy! I was having great frustration trying to get my new XFX GeForce 6200 256DDR2 card working with Kubuntu. I followed your instructions for installing and using Envy and it worked! I now have accelerated graphics! :)
Thank You!
David
April 6th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Ciao Alberto,
complimenti per il sito e per questa guida!
Roberto
April 14th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I tried envy on Ubuntu 6.10 to bring back Nvidia driver after an update of xorg server by ubuntu update.
Strangly the driver works but I have to manually load it, the file nvidia.ko doesn’t get copied in /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile/ so I had to add this line at the beginning of /etc/init.d/gdm:
cp /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/nvidia/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile/
Someone else had the same problem?
April 14th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
R. Ouellette:
try typing:
sudo depmod -a
and reboot.
April 14th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
No change, same behavior, the driver isn’t copied to the volatile directory… I had to get back my module copy line in /etc/init.d/gdm.
Raymond