Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Upgrade issues

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 14:58:17 EST


On 3/14/06, Keith Lelacheur <themercuryman@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I think I went and did a foolish thing, but usually thats how I learn the
> best lessons. I saw the Xgl/Copwiz video and wanted to play with it, so
> against all better judgement I tried to do the "Dapper Drake" Ubuntu
> Upgrade. I was warned that "....a few things might not work and I am not
> responsible...." I was able to fight through a lot of the oddities that
> presented themselves after the upgrade, but I still have a few issues. One
> is the whole NVIDIA accelerated driver thing. I see the kernal driver
> loading in dmesg, but I dont' think it is loaded correctly in X cause it is
> not as snappy as it was before the upgrade a lot of my fonts look terrible
> (sort of squished) and most importantly I do not get the nice little nvidia
> splash screen before X starts.

Check that you still have: Driver "nvidia"
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the device section for your video card.

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