Today my GeForce FX 5500 died… Good news: I popped in my ATI 1600, kindly donated by Jeff (which I used on my old testing box) a few months ago, and now I can use my computer again. Bad news: I won’t be able to work on Envy for Nvidia cards :-/ … just when […]

Here is the changelog * Fixed: Automatic installation of the ATI driver Using the textual interface made Envy exit. * Changed: Envy now depends on python-glade2 * Fixed: the md5 of ATI latest driver (for 64bit) had not been updated * Changed: (Temporarily) disabled the support for Ubuntu Dapper * Changed: (Temporarily) disabled AIGLX option […]

This is a bugfix release. Here is the changelog: * Fixed: compilation error with Nvidia driver 9631 * Changed: Envy GTK interface returns to its initial position after an operation is performed (radio button 1 is enabled by default)

Here is the changelog: * Added: ATI driver 8.34.8 * Added: Nvidia driver 9755 * Removed: ATI driver 8.33.6 * Removed: Nvidia driver 9746 * Changed: Envy’s frontend in pyGTK keeps a log file /var/log/envy-installer.log * Changed: the getdriver function in classes.py is more readable and relies much less on bash Here is ATI’s changelog: […]

I warmly recommend you to upgrade envy_0.9.0-0ubuntu1 to envy_0.9.0-0ubuntu2 since it fixes a few problems with the newlegacy (9631) and the legacy (7184) driver. Here is the changelog: * Fixed: compilation errors with Nvidia driver 9631 * Changed: the nvidia or fglrx folders inside /usr/src/modules are removed every time * Fixed: smoother uninstallation of the […]

Envy 0.9.0 is now available. I have written a GUI for Envy in PyGTK (the old Textual interface is also available). If you used a previous version of Envy or if you used the Nvidia installer you should follow point “B” of the Frequently Asked Question on my webpage. NOTE: Envy doesn’t support Feisty yet. […]

Well, there are 2 main reasons: * The ATI driver (fglrx) is not compatible with Feisty’s kernel (2.6.20). For this reason Envy should use a patch. I’d rather wait for official support by ATI/AMD but if this doesn’t happen before Feisty’s release I will implement this feature in Envy. (This is not the main reason […]

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.

envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu7 fixes a problem with ATI 9200/9250 cards, therefore if you had problems with Envy I suggest you to try this small bugfix release.

Yesterday the exam went great and as soon as I got back home I started working on the packages for my repositories (it took me 9 hours to upload them all). I have updated the ATI driver to the latest release 8.33.6 and the repositories (in general) should work well now (if they don’t, please […]