[LUGSB] About Ubuntu

[Sam Nightengale]

I'm actually not entirely sure how it does what it does; I never got a  
chance to really examine it.  All I know is that I tried to get a  
custom gaming box with a
brand-new video card running with Ubuntu about a year ago, and it got  
my graphics working perfectly.  This was after I attempted writing my  
own drivers and
using every hack known to man to get the Nvidia proprietary drivers  
working.  Envy basically negated a month's worth of work for me in  
about five minutes.  I think it may just shape the
Nvidia proprietary Linux drivers to work with any card.  Other than  
that, I have no idea.

Sam Nightengale
On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Benjamin Kudria wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 21:55, Sam Nightengale <snighten at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Ndiswrapper does not work very often.  Try to find a generic driver  
>> for your
>> card by looking it up in the Ubuntu forums.  If there isn't a  
>> driver, wait a
>> bit for 8.10, which may have drivers for your card nicely built in.
>> Otherwise, give Ndiswrapper a try.  Also, use a program called Envy  
>> to get
>> 3D graphics working.
>
> Indeed, the next version of Ubuntu (8.10, in beta now) is purported to
> have out-of-the-box support for some of these cards.  You can try
> upgrading if you want (instructions:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IntrepidUpgrades) but you might
> still run into minor problems.  It's scheduled to be released on
> October 30th, all the problems should be ironed out by then.
>
> Sam,
>
> I've heard of Envy - what exactly does it do above Ubuntu's
> "Restricted Drivers" manager?
>
> -Ben
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