{"id":140,"date":"2007-11-24T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T11:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-11-24T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T11:40:23","slug":"envy-099-the-new-amd-driver-and-a-few-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/envy-099-the-new-amd-driver-and-a-few-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Envy 0.9.9 the new AMD driver and a few notes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Envy Release Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Desktop Effects with NVIDIA cards<\/strong><br \/>\n    \u2218 Try to enable the Desktop effects, let Restricted Drivers Manager install the driver again, then (don&#8217;t reboot) use Envy again and finally reboot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The ATI module couldn&#8217;t be loaded at times.<\/strong><br \/>\n    \u2218 usually a depmod -ae solved the problem but I&#8217;ve tried to fix the problem.<br \/>\n    \u2218 I even managed to get the driver to work on Gutsy&#8217;s livecd (I had to log out and log in after the installation of the driver instead of rebooting, which I couldn&#8217;t do, but I     warmly recommend you to reboot). The desktop effects worked also on the livecd (they were a bit slow though).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The new ATI driver is available in Envy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 NVIDIA&#8217;s new BETA driver is not included in this release.<\/strong><br \/>\n    \u2218 I might release an unstable version of Envy for this. Later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Envy no longer depends on &#8220;nvidia-xconfig&#8221; to set up your xorg.conf<\/strong><br \/>\n    \u2218 Envy has its own Xorg parser now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The list of ATI\/AMD cards has been updated<\/strong><br \/>\n    \u2218 Radeon HD cards should be automatically detected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 You can either use Envy or Restricted Drivers Manager. Please don&#8217;t use them together.<\/strong><br \/>\n    \u2218 Should you decide to use Restricted Drivers Manager after using Envy you will have to undo what Envy did, by typing:<br \/>\n    \u2218 sudo envy &#8211;uninstall-all<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;ll set up the repositories as soon as I have the time. In the meantime you can get Envy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertomilone.com\/nvidia_scripts1.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Envy Release Notes \u2022 Desktop Effects with NVIDIA cards \u2218 Try to enable the Desktop effects, let Restricted Drivers Manager install the driver again, then (don&#8217;t reboot) use Envy again and finally reboot. \u2022 The ATI module couldn&#8217;t be loaded at times. \u2218 usually a depmod -ae solved the problem but I&#8217;ve tried to fix <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/envy-099-the-new-amd-driver-and-a-few-notes\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,14,5,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-envy","category-gnulinux","category-planet","category-python","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}