Re: [WAY WAY OT] Ubuntu 10.04 and Nvidia driver

2010-05-03 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:14 AM, john wendel wrote: > I was told that I needed to restart the system > to use the new driver. IT'S A LIVE CD FOLKS! Restarting of course wiped > out the new driver download. That is funny. But if it were a LiveUSB instead of a LiveCD then there could be persistent

Re: [WAY WAY OT] Ubuntu 10.04 and Nvidia driver

2010-05-02 Thread Michael Miles
On 05/02/2010 11:14 AM, john wendel wrote: > I just tried the live-CD of Ubuntu 10.04 and generally found it to be > very nicely done. But there was a big problem with the Nvidia driver > that I thought we could all learn something from my experience (like > "don't be stupid"), and maybe have a chu

[WAY WAY OT] Ubuntu 10.04 and Nvidia driver

2010-05-02 Thread john wendel
I just tried the live-CD of Ubuntu 10.04 and generally found it to be very nicely done. But there was a big problem with the Nvidia driver that I thought we could all learn something from my experience (like "don't be stupid"), and maybe have a chuckle or two. After starting, a "helpful" pop-up