I have an exam next thursday and I have to study like crazy. Only after the exam will I be able to update my repos. In the meantime you can use Envy: http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
here is the changelog: * Fixed: “ati” was blacklisted instead of “fglrx” * Fixed: ATI legacy driver didn’t install on 64bit systems * Fixed: envy attempted to download Nvidia legacy installer from the non-legacy http address * Fixed: potential problem with ATI legacy installer * Changed: Envy doesn’t check the model of your card if […]
I warmly recommend you to update to this release of Envy since it solves a few problems: * Fixed: now Envy should detect the card properly even if 2 or more cards are detected * Fixed: solves the “md5 error” bug which affected legacy cards * Fixed: Ati installer 8.28.8 needs a symbolic link to […]
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.
If you had problems with cards which need the legacy or new legacy driver (which were detected as “unsupported”), please try envy_0.8.1-0ubuntu2. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Envy 0.8.1 includes a lot of changes (especially if you have a look at the source code), a new textual interface and adds the support for ATI cards. The uninstallation of Envy’s deb package should be smoother now. Here is the full changelog: * Changed: Textual interface written from scratch * Changed: written from scratch […]
I’ve been interviewed about Envy, Ubuntu and other distros by luna6: I hope you enjoy the read 😉 LINK
I’ve been very busy with the exams this week and I haven’t had the time to post on my blog (or do anything else). Sometimes ago I made a blog post in which I said that I was looking for suggestions to buy a cheap AGP ATI card (for my testing box) to test the […]
Here is the new structure of my repositories: EDIT: Have a look at this page: http://albertomilone.com/driver.html
Envy 0.7.5 is now able to choose driver 97xx, 96xx or 7xxx according to your graphic card model.