[sclug] Ubuntu issues

[Neil Haughton]

Many thanks. A job for the weekend - I'll let you know how it turns out. I
like 9.04 though, quite polished I think, so it's a shame about the
regression issues.

I've just reported my first bug (I think), the printer one. We'll see.

Regards,

Neil.



2009/10/6 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>

> 2009/10/6 Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>:
> >> > > http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/
> >>
> >
> > Isn't that just the basic ISO?
>
> No.
>
> http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ -> ISOs
> http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ -> Repo.
>
> So instead of this in your sources.list:-
>
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu main
>
> You have:-
>
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ main
>
> And so on..
>
> >> What makes you think it isn't available?
> >>
> > I read it in the forums, that it broke the latest xorg and the official
> > Canonical line was to buy an ATI Rage or similar card, because nvidia
> would
>
> I've not seen any Canonical official advise of that kind at all. Many
> will advocate the use of open source drivers which support 3d
> acceleration on ATI cards though over nVidia cards with the binary
> driver.
>
> > I can only go on what I read, and I decided to hold off until a few
> months
> > after 9.04 arrived and try that, which I did. Perhaps I'll give 8.04 a
> try
> > instead - where is the nvidia driver obtained from? The aptitude
> > repositories, or the Restricted Drivers tool, or elsewhere?
> >
>
> Either/Both
>
> See the documentation for details:-
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ubuntu+nvidia
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>