I am pleased to report the success of Envy in resolving my ongoing issue
with an nvidia driver. Would recommend anyone with nvidia problems give
it a go.
I'll note a couple of things - first, trying to do this last thing
Friday, then leaving it for the weekend, I came back to find the old
problematic nv driver had caused the machine to lock up once more, and
I'm not certain that the Envy install had completed correctly. Envy
again, tried install, hung, then uninstall (went OK), then reinstall.
It threw an error complaining that there was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
That was a result of attempting to remove the file to see if one created
on rebooting would help (no - file NOT created on reboot, therefore
didn't help) so after getting a backup xorg.conf and running Envy once
again, it all went well.
I'm fairly sure that if I had been a little more patient and waiting
till this morning, and had an xorg.conf file in the expected place, it
would have gone well first time.
I'm very happy. Next . . .
Roger
Roger Searle wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
I have now followed the suggestion to use Envy. It installed easily,
first time it ran it complained about a dependency, fixed itself up,
then downloaded or changed 85 packages to install the nvidia driver.
This included removing and reinstalling nvidia-glx-new and several
other nvidia related packages. I was impressed with how easy this was.
As I did this last thing yesterday and was then in a hurry to leave, I
will report the success or otherwise when I am back at that computer
on Monday.
Cheers,
Roger
