[LUGSB] About Ubuntu

[Jonathan Dehan]

The 5100 has support on the 2.6.27 kernel. Upgrade the kernel instead of
having to upgrade your whole OS. It's under Device Drivers -> Networking ->
Wireless -> Intel somethingorother -> 5100 in the menuconfig. If you haven't
built your own kernel yet, I highly suggest you learn how to so you can fix
things like this instead of waiting 6 months for the next version of your
distro to release. Don't be scared of the tons of options, just find the
relevant one for what you want to do and make small changes first. Compiling
iwlagn (that should be the module name) as a module is a good idea until you
are sure it works and know how to get it up and running.

Envy is just a hack around the debian/ubuntu package manager that installs
the correct driver for your card. You don't need it to install the correct
versions of drivers as they are all on the nvidia / ati website anyway if
not in the default repositories already.

- Jonathan

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Sam Nightengale <snighten at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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