As promised, I have released a new version of Envy (0.7.4) which will install the latest Nvidia proprietary driver (9746). The new driver adds the support for GeForce 8800 GTS and GeForce 8800 GTX boards. P.S. I will update my repositories ASAP

Please, update to envy_0.7.3-0ubuntu3. It fixes a problem with the legacy driver

Please, update to envy_0.7.3-0ubuntu2. It fixes the link from which envy downloads the Nvidia driver.

As promised, I have released a new version of Envy (0.7.3) which will install the latest Nvidia proprietary driver (9631) Here is the Changelog: envy (0.7.3-0ubuntu1) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed: the gcc-4.0 is now used in Dapper for kernel 2.6.19 * Added the support for driver 9631 — Alberto Milone (tseliot) Tue, 5 Dec 2006 […]

To the ones who accuse me or Nvidia (which is not related to me in any way) of infringing the GPL or of anything else, I would like to point out that: 1) I DO NOT promote the Nvidia driver in any way. If you use the proprietary driver it’s only YOUR choice. 2) Both […]

The latest Nvidia driver (9631) is now available in my Testing repositories. Here is the changelog of the driver: * Fixed an OpenGL crash on some GeForce 3 and GeForce 4 GPUs. * Fixed an X server crash starting some fullscreen OpenGL games. * Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels. Make sure that the repositories […]

This morning I had a look at Distrowatch.com as usual and I noticed that Linux Mint 2.1 “Bea” beta 023 was released. I was curious to see what this “customised version of Ubuntu” was like, therefore I read the release notes. Then I find out that Envy is included in this beta release of Linux […]

My old ATI card is not supported any more by the ATI driver (fglrx) since version 8.28.8. For this reason I can’t test the latest ATI driver which I provide in my repositories (for both Dapper and Edgy) and I can only test the Nvidia driver. The ATI driver is causing more problems than the […]

Envy 0.7.2 contains nvidia-xconfig (which won’t replace the one on your system) so that the composite extension is automatically disabled if you use the legacy driver. Envy 0.7.2 installs driver 9629 and the legacy 7184. If you need to use the beta driver 9626 you can use envy 0.6.1

The Nvidia driver 9629 contains the following improvements: * Added initial support for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap. * Added new “Display Configuration” page in nvidia-settings. * Improved workstation OpenGL performance in Xinerama. * Added support for NVIDIA Quadro Plex. * Added support for Quad SLI. * Improved X driver error recovery. * Improved workstation overlay performance. * Added […]