Ubuntu lets you choose between the open source Nvidia driver and the proprietary Nvidia driver. Have you tried both? Does one work any better than the other?
Chris On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Jim Peterson <jim.sokytec...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm currently DB with OS X & Ubuntu 10.04. The Nvidia driver is a bit > wonky, though, when rendering web pages that you have to scroll on. It > quite often gives you double lines of text/pictures, but you can "select > all" on the page & straighten most of it out. Kind of annoying, and I > think I'll probably end up switching distros or something to see if that > makes a difference. > > Jim > > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 12:51 -0500, Chris McQuistion wrote: >> That's really good to know. I've used REFit on dual-boot Mac/Windows >> systems. I didn't realize you could use that for dual booting to >> Linux, too! >> >> Chris >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jim Peterson <jim.sokytec...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > EFI is already used by Apple, and if you want to dual-boot one with >> > Linux (or that other major OS) then you have to download & install >> > REFIt, which acts like a bootloader & gives you the options to boot into >> > an OS, from a CD or flash drive, or go into a shell, use the disk >> > partitioner, get the "about" info, or restart/shutdown the computer. >> > >> > Jim Peterson >> > Technology Coordinator >> > Goodnight Memorial Library >> > 203 S. Main St. >> > Franklin, KY 42134 >> > (270) 586-8397 >> > www.gmpl.org >> > Tweet me @GMLGeek >> > Library Technology Blog >> > I'm on Facebook, too! >> > >> > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 07:19 -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: >> >> grub2 supports efi . I don't think grub 1 does. This is one of things >> >> I noticed when I was playing with gentoo on itanium (one of the first >> >> architectures to incorporate efi). Isn't efi supposed to replace the >> >> bios eventually? >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
