Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-19 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Well, ATI/AMD Intel have both FOSS'd their drivers so that the community can decide to pick them up and maintain them, if need be, for as long as there's interest--possibly forever. In practice, the FOSS world

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-19 Thread bruce . labitt
gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/19/2010 11:15:35 AM: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Well, ATI/AMD Intel have both FOSS'd their drivers so that the community can decide to pick them up and maintain them, if need be, for

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-19 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 10/19/2010 8:02 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: bruce.lab...@autoliv.com writes: gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/19/2010 11:15:35 AM: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Well, ATI/AMD Intel have both FOSS'd their drivers

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: On 10/19/2010 8:02 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Did you try xserver-xorg-video-nv? If neither that nor nouveau works, and if your `old' machine is old enough to still have PCI slots be acceptible for a graphics card, I could probably

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-18 Thread Benjamin Scott
Something that hasn't been mentioned explicitly is that NVidia periodically retires support for older cards. When that happens, you have to go to their legacy driver, which doesn't receive enhancements. I'd guess they may also retire support for really old cards entirely. -- Ben

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-18 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 10/18/2010 12:43 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Something that hasn't been mentioned explicitly is that NVidia periodically retires support for older cards. When that happens, you have to go to their legacy driver, which doesn't receive enhancements. I'd guess they may also retire support

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: On 10/18/2010 12:43 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Something that hasn't been mentioned explicitly is that NVidia periodically retires support for older cards. When that happens, you have to go to their legacy driver, which doesn't receive

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-17 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 10/17/2010 11:07 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Bruce Labittbruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: Anyone know where the X stuff is hidden (umm, normally stored) in Ubuntu so I can get X to work again? Context: 10.04 machine, freshly updated, then took the bait of going to 10.10 last

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-17 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 10/17/2010 12:13 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: On 10/17/2010 11:07 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: If it's that old, does Nvidia still actually support it? And does the driver that Xorg ships (Nouveau, in the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package) not work? The video card is now under legacy

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: On 10/17/2010 11:07 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Bruce Labittbruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: So how does one start the X configuration again? IIRC, there used to be routines like xf86config, etc that could be used to

Re: X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

2010-10-17 Thread Bayard Coolidge
Here's my Meerkat xorg.conf for my HP dv9000z laptop, which has the nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce Go 6150] (rev a2) (according to 'lspci'): snip Section Screen Identifier Default Screen DefaultDepth24 EndSection Section Module Loadglx EndSection