[sclug] Ubuntu issues

[Stephen]

By the time you have installed 9.04, 9.10 is being released.

On 10/06/2009 08:08 PM, Neil Haughton wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>