On 08/24/2010 11:56 AM, John Vivirito wrote: > On 08/13/2010 01:53 AM, Robert Hooker wrote: ... >> >> You are going to have to use nouveau for now, the proprietary >> nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers do not work with xserver 1.9 and most >> likely will not until right before release. 256.44 that is in >> ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates does work for the GPU's it supports with >> IgnoreABI added to the serverflags section in your xorg.conf but the >> older releases don't. If you want accelerated 3D (for compiz) with >> nouveau you can install the libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental package if >> you are using the mesa 7.8 that is in maverick. >> >> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 is the proper >> place to report the problem, we can't do anything about it with the >> binary drivers. >> > Robert what do you mean it font get fixed till right before release? > that is 2 months away >
John, I don't know what Robert means either, but I do see that Alberto has added nvidia-96 to this bug report: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/616214> [Should Depend: on appropriate xserver-xorg-video-$ABI] More: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/616023> I suspect that Robert is correct in stating: <quote> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 is the proper place to report the problem, we can't do anything about it with the binary drivers. </quote> Unfortunately, issue will affect many other distros as well. So I reckon the only solution may be to put pressure on nVidia directly. Quite a few cards that will be affected if this is not fixed by Maverick release: ==== http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-96.43.18-driver.html GeForce 4 MX series: MX 440, MX 440 (AGP 8X), MX 420 (AGP 8X), MX 420, MX 440-SE, MX Integrated GPU, MX 460, MX 440SE (AGP 8X), MX 4000 Quadro NVS series: NVS 285, NVS 55/280 PCI, NVS 210, NVS 420, NVS 450, NVS 50, NVS 295, NVS 280, NVS 440, NVS 290 Quadro 4 Go series: 500 GoGL, 550 XGL, 700 GoGL Quadro 2 Go series: MXR/EX/Go GeForce 4 Ti series: Ti 4800, Ti 4800 SE, Ti 4400, Ti 4200 (AGP 8X), Ti 4200, Ti 4600 GeForce 2 series: Ti 200, GeForce3, Ti 500 Quadro 2 MXR series: Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go ==== And I suspect quite a few non-technical Ubuntu users will be up in arms come release time when they find out that they can no longer use compiz/3D with Maverick. Perhaps the Ubuntu dev's can put a little pressure on nVidia to deal with this so it can be fixed/tested before release? I also don't see https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa / https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=maverick as a viable option. That ppa has *way* too many packages in it for the normal tester to try unless on a dedicated test machine. Further, it seems to only concern nvidia-graphics-drivers 256 & unless I've missed something I see nothing regarding nvidia-96. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
