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Those are older distros, so I'm not too surprised that you had those issues. Hardy is 8.04 and is the current version. That's the one I'm using now without ever having any display issues with my NVIDIA driver. The new one 8.10 -- Intrepid Ibex is coming out in 2 days.
already to the I's, wow... I'll install that and see if that indeed solves the issues I've had, thanks for the update :)
Just wait for it to come out.. I'm doing it and then I'm doing a clean install.. Also removing the V**ta partition. I was trying out a whole bunch of apps so I ended up with a whole bunch of unnecessary dependencies installed that I can't get rid of. Fortunately, I can do a reinstall without losing any of my application data or personal files.
I like 'aptitude install blah-blah' because it keeps track of dependencies and if you later do 'aptitude purde blah-blah' it'll remove all unused ones.
And yeah, letters get used up quickly when you stick to release every 6 months timetable.
Some of them were installed from source, and I wasn't keeping track of what's what.
Ilija, the stuff from source should you to /usr/local, if it's nice and lsb compliant, of course.
I'm not trying to convince you to go the upgrade route - complete install will be faster anyways.
I have had no issues with Nvidia since Fedora Core 5. You guys are on the wrong flavour of linux, clearly. :D
James.
Quick question that is slightly OT Ilija - Is our filtering system doing something funny to the word Vista?
James.
Edit: lol - answered my own question there, sorry. Carry on.
Flavor? I hope they have stopped to flavor them - breezy badger was bad enough and I don't even want to know what that uncouth ibex stinks like... There is of course the Linux Mint that tries to cover those animal smells, but I hear it doesn't work too well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo
Ivan, I also installed some of the dependencies through the package manager and even though I could automatically clean up orphaned packages, I'll sleep better at night if I start out clean.
Jimbo, NVIDIA has been working fine on Ubuntu for the last 2 distros. As for the word Vi**a, it's all about personal censoring due to the lovely :w experiences that I've been having with it. There are 2 good things I can say about it:
1) It drove me to finally truly switch to Linux
2) It has a great partitioning tool that enabled the tryout run in the first place