-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris; Now that you mention it, I now recall the blacklist. Again I thought I would mention it ( not to start a flame war, as it seems is the case with all my posts no matter how mundane ) since I wanted to move to >= 180.29 because of the OpenGL 3.0 support:
http://management.cadalyst.com/cadman/News/NVIDIA-Ships-Beta-Drivers-for-OpenGL-v3-Standard/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/542925 http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html Which all the gamers out there should keep an eye on. Side note: Please note the crappy, non-Linux friendly mother board I got after my ASUS one died ( third ASUS to die on me ) has a GeForce 8100 / nForce 720a which exists in the north bridge. Thus like a win-modem really needs closed source drivers. Joe Apuzzo Gnu Joe Chris Knadle wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2009, Joseph T Apuzzo wrote: >> I had a problem upgrading to the nVidia last two drivers drops: >> 180.22 and 180.29, but 177.x worked just fine. Seems the problem >> or I would say good programming skills at nVidia were the cause. >> >> The problem was that a while back I had installed Envy-ng, which >> in turn installs packages that allow for nVidia kernel drivers to >> be built. Since the Envy-ng drivers were of the 177.x family >> everything worked. Once I tried to use the 180.x set of drivers, >> the nVidia build script would "skip" what was installed by >> package to avoid screwing up my system. > > A similar problem came up two weeks ago on the list. The Evny-ng > drivers blacklist the normal ones in order to avoid driver > conflicts. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnvyNG > >> So bottom line, use one or the other. That is if you want the >> latest support of OpenGL v3 then you will need to remove all >> other nVidia marked packages ( or RPMS or what ever ) from your >> system so that there build script makes ALL the code and installs >> it correctly. > > Removing the Envy-ng packages should remove the blacklist entries. > Hopefully you can verify that they do. > > -- Chris > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley > Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings > (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 4 - TBD - > 6th Birthday Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz Apr 1 - TBD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmaxSYACgkQsACJ4LtccWQrCACeMC4Mqg0U4o4p7cY6vrbqVqUw 3z0AnibMcA5kAaswY4DNA86L8ih3AhHR =AL3R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 4 - TBD - 6th Birthday Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz Apr 1 - TBD
