I have finished writing my thesis (in Latex) and I’ll graduate in March. In the meantime I’m studying PyQT4 and working on Envy. I haven’t updated Envy yet as I’ve been working on EnvyNG (“NG” stands for “Next Generation”) i.e. the latest evolution of Envy. EnvyNG will support only Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) or higher while […]
envy 0.9.10-0ubuntu2 adds the support for the latest Nvidia driver and fixes a bug: * Fixed: Envy stopped after the process in the virtual terminal ended. * Added: Nvidia driver 169.09 * Removed: Nvidia driver 169.07 Here are the release highlights from Nvidia’s website: * Fixed a problem causing the fan on some GPUs to […]
AMD released new driver (8.01) which still lacks the symlink to libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0. Envy gets around the problem now. Let me know if you have further problems. Here’s the changelog: * Fixed: Upstream Bug – missing symlink to libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 (libfglrx_gamma.so.1) * Fixed: “Envy” was not the title of the legacy dialogues on Debian * Added: AMD […]
As you might already know, the latest release of the Nvidia driver includes the CUDA driver. Unfortunately the packages generated by Envy lacked the new files which made it possible to use the CUDA Toolkit (on both Debian and Ubuntu). This is no longer the case in envy_0.9.9-0ubuntu6 which I released about two days ago […]
Here is the changelog of Envy’s new release: * Changed: backported xparse and xorgconfig from Envy’s unstable branch so as to switch to the guidance backend * Changed: backported improvements to Shutilities from Envy’s unstable branch * Changed: the latest release of the ATI driver is automatically installer for ATI FireGL cards * Added: objects.restorexorg() […]
A new release of Envy is available. Here’s the changelog: * Added: Nvidia driver 169.07 * Removed: Nvidia driver 100.14.23 * Added: AMD Catalyst driver 7.12 * Removed: AMD Catalyst driver 7.11 ATI’s Catalyst driver 7.12 uses DKMS (thanks to Mario Limonciello), and I’m planning to add DKMS to the NVIDIA driver in Envy’s next […]
Today (thanks to Cyril Brulebois) I have found bug which in turn was cause by an ever nastier bug in URandR. The current refresh of a device was detected even if such device was not enabled (???) (i.e. plugged in but disabled). URandR knows that, if a device has a current refresh rate, such device […]
This new release of URandR will finally allow you to save your settings without touching your xorg.conf (except for the virtual resolution). URandR can now check if you’re using independent screens or cloned screens as you can see in the following screenshot: Furthermore you can now save your current settings to a profile. Currently there […]
Here is the changelog: * Fixed: the detection of installed packages failed in certain cases * Fixed: a few mistakes in the Norwegian and Russian translations If Envy complained about the lack of some packages which it said it couldn’t install but which were already installed then this release will solve your problem. Special thanks […]
Envy Release Notes • Desktop Effects with NVIDIA cards ∘ Try to enable the Desktop effects, let Restricted Drivers Manager install the driver again, then (don’t reboot) use Envy again and finally reboot. • The ATI module couldn’t be loaded at times. ∘ usually a depmod -ae solved the problem but I’ve tried to fix […]