[Novalug] Ubuntu problems (2)

[b b]

- my solution for ati (and for nvidia users) is:

Envy - automatic install of proprietary video drivers
for ATI/Nvidia cards:

http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

hth!

--- donjr <djr1952 at hotpop.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 12:49 -0400, Angelo Bertolli
> wrote:
> > Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> > > Two complaints about ubuntu
> > > (1) Why do my nvidia drivers go away every time
> I upgrade - then I need
> > > to reinstall them.
> > >
> 
> > >   
> > These aren't specifically Ubuntu problems.  Your
> nvidia drivers only go 
> > away when you upgrade the kernel because they're
> not open source.  At 
> > least I think the driver named "nvidia" isn't open
> source.  There's 
> > another driver "nv" that's open that you could
> use, but it doesn't take 
> > advantage of the hardware acceleration, and it's
> quite noticable.
> 
> The problem with the nvidia driver, at least with
> edge, is the way the
> package linux-restricted-modules is setup.
> 
> First it (lrm-manger), until modified, "builds" the
> restricted module
> binary directory /lib/module/{Kernel
> version}/volatile while ignoring
> your configuration settings in "/etc/default/*" and
> builds the kernel
> module table from this.
> 
>   Sounds like a workable solution doesn't it. EXCEPT
> for the problem of:
> 
>     The resulting "binary only" modules
> "nvidia"(nvidia.ko) and
> "nvidia_legacy"(nvidia_legacy.ko) have the SAME
> internal kernel module
> ID of "nv" and since "nvidia_legacy" comes LAST
> that's the one the
> module tables point to, so that the one the kernel
> tries to load when a
> request for "nv" comes along.
> 
> And after a system reboot it (lrm-manger) does obey
> the setting
> in /etc/default/ so "nvidia_legacy" may not even
> exist NOW.
>   {-: note there is even more parts to this little
> problem. :-}
> 
> HUM. where do I report this BUG that I've had to fix
> each time
> linux-restricted-modules-common gets upgraded?
> 
> 
> --  
> -- 
>  Don E. Groves, Jr. 
> 
> $ /usr/games/fortune : You're almost as happy as you
> think you are.
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