On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 10:00 +1200, Ian McDonald wrote:
I've seen quite a few reports recently about people upgrading to Feisty and breaking their systems.
I'm a bit frustrated with Ubuntu at the moment. A while back they upgraded the nvidia-glx package so it uses a later driver. nvidia have dropped support for my MX400 chip, so the new driver doesn't work, and nvidia-glx-legacy is a really crufty old 7xxx driver that makes the card lock up twice a day. There's also an nvidia-new package now, which is an even more recent driver. I wish they'd either roll nvidia-glx back to the version just before nvidia dropped all of the MX4xx chips, or make an nvidia-glx-almostlegacy package. But they won't because the apparently the old nvidia drivers 'aren't supported' -- wth, the legacy 7xxx drivers ARE supported? nvidia don't really 'support' any of their drivers anyhow. Just give me a driver in a package that works, properly, and I don't have to manually reinstall after every kernel upgrade. Also when I run restricted drivers manager it offers me a choice of both current and legacy drivers. The obvious choice, the current driver, breaks my system. I filed a bug, they lumped it in with a 'duplicate' bug which was showing both drivers as being already installed. NO, that's not my bug! Read through my bug description before you jump to conclusions, please?