It’s been a month since my last blog post. EnvyNG was included in Hardy but it had a few problems and I have worked to fix them. I can’t upload such fixes since Hardy is a stable release. This means that all the updates will have to be tested before they are moved to the stable repositories. This is why I need your help. The more users test the fixes the sooner we can get them into stable.<\/p>\n
Special Thanks:<\/strong> Timo Aaltonen<\/strong> brought bugs #212648, #186382, #118605 to my attention and suggested the solution. In case you don’t know it already, he’s one of the guys who take care of Ubuntu’s restricted modules. Keep up the good work, Timo! Envyng-core will also fix the problem which prevented the QT interface from working properly.<\/p>\n EnvyNG now relies on its own packages (available in multiverse) therefore you will have to install the driver from EnvyNG again so that the correct packages are installed. If you don’t do it you will keep using Ubuntu’s default restricted modules. Of course DKMS, CUDA, etc. are back in my packages.<\/p>\n The latest release of ATI’s proprietary driver (8.4) is also available and contains a patch which should fix bug #118605 (which doesn’t solve the problem on my computer though).<\/p>\n How to test it:<\/strong> Where to report:<\/strong> If you have problems with the drivers which EnvyNG installed<\/strong><\/em> you can report them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can simply add a comment to one of the bugreports which you will find at these links if your problems are related to those reports or if you just want to confirm that either EnvyNG or the drivers work well for you (this will really help us).<\/p>\n If you want you can use this model to report:<\/p>\n Used EnvyNG (yes\/no): Example: Used EnvyNG: yes OR if it doesn’t solve the problem<\/p>\n Used EnvyNG: yes NOTE:<\/strong> It’s been a month since my last blog post. EnvyNG was included in Hardy but it had a few problems and I have worked to fix them. I can’t upload such fixes since Hardy is a stable release. This means that all the updates will have to be tested before they are moved to the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,5,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envy","category-gnulinux","category-planet","category-python","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAll this wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing support of Martin Pitt<\/strong>, who guided me and helped me with the SRU (Stable Release Update). He has spent a lot of time on EnvyNG, gave me a lot of extremely useful suggestions, therefore I can say that you should really thank Martin for this release<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\n
\nA stripped down list of Changes:<\/strong>
\n
\nenvyng-core (1.1.1ubuntu15) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
\n * Fix (LP: #224004) Update NVIDIA compatibility list.
\n * Fix (LP: #221304) Use the new l-r-m-envy packages now.
\n * Install -envy packages instead of the ones in main
\n * Hide FutureWarning caused by python-apt
\n * xorgconfig2 now ignores sections which are not relevant in xorg.conf
\n<\/code>
\n
\nlinux-restricted-modules-envy-2.6.24 (2.6.24.500-500.28) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
\n * Fix (LP: #228649) xorg-driver-fglrx-dev conflicted with
\n xorg-driver-fglrx
\n * Sync with the fixes in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (2.6.24.12-17.36)
\n * nvidia: Do not divert libwfb.so, because if the xserver provides one
\n it should be used. This caused at least problems with some websites
\n crashing on certain pages (see #212648), and pink shadows with compiz.
\n (see: #186382)
\n * fglrx: Patch authatieventsd.sh to search for xauth files in
\n \/var\/run\/xauth\/. Otherwise the session would freeze on logout for KDM
\n users. Thanks Ilja Pavkovic! (see: #118605)
\n * Remove previous diversions of libwfb.so in the postinst. Thanks Timo
\n Aaltonen.
\n * Make sure that any previous module of fglrx and nvidia built by DKMS are
\n removed before the new module is built and installed.
\n * Use -envy so as not to conflict with Ubuntu's lrm
\n * Add fglrx driver 8.4
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nYou will have to enable the hardy-proposed<\/strong> repositories (Go to System\/Administration\/Software Sources\/Updates and select “Proposed Updates (hardy-proposed)”) and upgrade to envyng-core (1.1.1ubuntu15), then launch EnvyNG and install the drivers.<\/p>\n
\nIf you have problems with EnvyNG<\/strong><\/em> (e.g. if EnvyNG crashes during the installation of the driver) you can report them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nWorked with Ubuntu’s default restricted modules (yes\/no):
\nGraphic card model:
\nProblem (solved\/otherwise describe the problem):<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nIf it works for you:<\/p>\n
\nWorked with Ubuntu’s default restricted modules (yes\/no): yes
\nGraphic card model: Geforce 7300GT
\nProblem: solved\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nWorked with Ubuntu’s default restricted modules (yes\/no): yes
\nGraphic card model: Geforce 7300GT
\nProblem: NVIDIA driver 169.12 still freezes my computer when I visit this website…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nI’m working on this Bug<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"