As you might have noticed already, X.org no longer ships with the DontZap option set to False by default i.e. pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace won’t restart the xserver any longer. At the UDS we discussed on how to deal with this change and we came to the conclusion that Ubuntu and Kubuntu would deal with this change […]
After spending a week in Sunnyvale I’m back from the UDS. It was a long trip and I can definitely say out loud that it was a fantastic experience, very hard to put into words, part of which you’ll be able to see in the video-recorded sessions (available soon?). I gave speeches on 3 projects […]
As promised, NVIDIA drivers 71.86.07 and 96.43.09 are now available for testing in Intrepid’s proposed repositories. If you don’t know how to use these repositories you can read the instructions. Please give feedback here (say something like “driver 96 works for me”, etc.). There is also a small fix which will solve a problem with […]
First of all, happy release to you all. I have noticed that NVIDIA released two beta drivers which work with Intrepid’s X.org and I will make new packages available in the -proposed archives ASAP. In the meantime you might want to see why I recommend you to wait for these packages. Keep an eye this […]
EnvyNG: I have updated envyng-core (2.0) and envyng-qt (2.0) in Intrepid. The GTK interface doesn’t work and even if I managed to solve the problems with GTK and threading I couldn’t upload it since we’re in feature freeze. The new textual interface and the QT4 interface now rely on python-apt and python-xkit. Thanks to the […]
I have updated the NVIDIA driver 177.67 (still a beta) in Intrepid (a special thanks to Timo Aaltonen who sponsored the upload). If you still have 2D performance issues, you can have a look at this post (a special thanks to nullack for suggesting this link). NOTE: this driver won’t be available on Hardy until […]
If you experienced problems with the NVIDIA driver 173.14.09 you might want to give version 173.14.12 a try. The driver is available on Hardy in the hardy-proposed repository (you will have to install it through EnvyNG, if you haven’t already done so) and should now work with Xen kernels too (thanks to a little trick […]
As promised in my previous posts, in this blog post I will deal with a project I’m working on which implements this blueprint. Bryce Harrington (the mentor of this blueprint), Colin Watson (the approver) and I talked about this at the UDS in Prague. The blueprint is based on Bryce’s original idea to improve the […]
What is ready Currently there are 4 flavours of the NVIDIA driver: 177, 173, 96, 71. They are all compatible with Xen and work only with 2.6.26 kernels (no 2.6.24, sorry). They all use DKMS therefore you will have to keep the linux-headers installed. CUDA is now supported by default (drivers 173, 177). The packages […]
It took me some time to update the FGLRX and the NVIDIA driver in Ubuntu since I’m working on the drivers for Intrepid and on my new projects for Ubuntu. Furthermore driver 173.14.09 breaks the compatibility with realtime kernels and I didn’t want to upload something which would cause problems to a lot of users. […]