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#660: Better Nvidia Graphic Card Support
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Written by bdragonmsl the 29 Feb 08 at 03:30.
Category: Graphics.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
I just bought a new graphics card (8800 GT)and there seems to be problems with it being picked up automatically in ubuntu. It would be nice if that new X.org was finally implemented.
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duriel wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 18:33
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ah yes, infact, I use a 6800 GS pci-e card, and xwindow NEVER starts up properly (in any version of ubuntu), until I download the drivers (from nvidia) and install them manually.
Till then, all i get is a screen filled with horizontal and vertical colored lines...
This can be a real put-off if someone has no idea how to download the drivers from a command line. To make matters worse, the drivers will work only if installed from init level 3 with xserver shutdown.
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MakotoTheKnight wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:41
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Hey, it'd be great if we could have better nVidia support right out of the box, but that's really up to the guys over at AMD/nVidia, now isn't it? All developers can do is hack and reverse engineer, receiving occasionally a driver or two to help their process.
I'd love it if hardware manufacturers started paying attention to the growing demand of their proprietary drivers in Linux, though. But that's something that only the manufacturer can really have a say on.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 00:59
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I am using 8600GT and there is a bug in the 169 drivers that causes pink/yellow shadows. :(
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Hacksaw wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 15:34
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Pressure on Nvidia is a nice idea, but in the meantime dealing with ubuntu 7.10 and nvidia bites, because the ubuntu machinery steps in and "saves" me from that evil driver I have installed by hand, changing my working setup to one in 800x600 on just one of my two 24" screens.
This is extremely frustrating. I'll deal with having to manually install a driver if Ubuntu would rather not support it, but please, please, please make it it obvious how to get your machinery to get the hell out of the way.
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ariendj wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 01:26
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www.OpenTheBlob.com
Quit whining, start signing!
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Ferdil wrote on the 4 May 08 at 17:40
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It's quite done in 8.04 (except for the easily-fixable pink shadows in compiz)
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