On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Vivek Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, February 27, 2010 1:47 pm, kuldeep gmail wrote: >> Hi to all, >> I am using Ubuntu Jaunty since last 6 months. While I am facing less > <snip> >> I using HCL Laptop having intel dual core, inbuilt nvidia graphics card >> and 2 GB RAM. Is this problem with nvidia. Because Mandriva dont work >> with nvidia at all when i tried before. >> Jaunty work with card but it have some time hung up problem. > > When the system gets hung up for no reason in Jaunty, then you can put the > blame > on nVidia. Not directly nVidia though, but in some of the older kernels the > nVidia driver got broken. I guess if you update it to the latest kernel and > get No. The latest kernel will never work with Nvidia. They do not expose the kernel interface to the latets kernel. Kernels only shipped by distros have proper Nvidia support. And no doubt Nvidia support is a pain with linux. > the latest nVidia package from "System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers", > then you should be fine. In fact, it seems with every new release - and now > every new update, the "Reliability" of Ubuntu is diminishing. Will have a look But at the same time user interface is getting better and I feel that is a fair enough cost looking at the variety of HW available. I feel after few days of any release the system gets pretty stable.
> at 10.04, and then see if it gets better. On the other hand to avoid the hang you can disable the Nvidia driver and generic driver is good enough if you are not playing high quality games. > > Regards > Vivek Kapoor > http://exain.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Sudhir Kumar _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
