On 9/24/07, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)wired.net.nz> wrote:
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.
Your frustration should probably be aimed at Nvidia which refuses to release open source packages. The binary packages are tied to certain versions of the kernel so if they upgrade the kernel they have to go to newer nvidia drivers. Yet another reason to support Intel and now AMD/ATI. Have you had a look at the open source drivers. It probably doesn't meet your needs yet but is making progress independent of the Nvidia company http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
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?
The bug triagers are only human too. It's a thankless (and boring) task managing bug databases. Have you replied to say it's not the same bug? Hopefully then they'll unmerge it. Ian -- Web1: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Web2: http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz