[nzlug] Dapper Upgrade Experience

[Vik Olliver]

Hey folks, there's a great guide on this here:

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper

Works a treat. The only boner is that if you use twinview to get 2
screens, you'll need to manually hack that into the xorg.conf -
something that Linux needs to get sorted out as corporate twin monitors
are getting to be in vogue.

Vik :v)

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:47 +1200, Steven Ellis wrote:
> Robin Sheat wrote:
> 
> >The nvidia modules were a pain too, as I have an old video card (TNT2) 
> >that isn't supported by the new version. It used to be there was an 
> >nvidia-legacy package that provided them. Now I have to get the 
> >nvidia-legacy-source and compile them each time the kernel changes.
> >  
> >
> Verry odd as i'm on Dapper and I have the legacy driver installed
> 
> Try -
>     sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy
> 
> Look at http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/misc/nvidia-glx-legacy for 
> details.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
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