On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:29:16PM -0000, Gaetan Nadon wrote: > You have 3 choices when it comes to drivers: > 1) The default open source "nv" driver (2D only) maintained by Ubuntu > 2) The binary restricted driver (offered by the restricted driver manager - > nvidia-glx) which comes from nVidia but is packaged (but not supported) by > Ubuntu. Driver 177 in Intrepid does support your card. > 3) The binary nVidia driver obtained directly from nVidia.com which is shell > script installed. This is not supported by Ubuntu
4) The -nouveau driver, which is still highly experimental but is our long term future hope 5) The -vesa driver, which is stable but very limited I've learned recently that a number of PCIIDs are missing from -nv due to differences between how Debian (and us) handle PCIIDs and how upstream -nv is doing it. Debian/Ubuntu expects them to be listed explicitly, however upstream is using a wildcarding approach. Since upstream is using the wildcarding approach, that sounds like the way we should be doing it, however switching to that this late in the release cycle may incur too large a risk of regression, so possibly the safest/easiest thing would be for us to just collate the PCIIDs manually ourselves. I don't know how much time I'll have to do this before release, so would greatly appreciate any assistance in tracking down bugs like this one, that can be resolved by adding the PCIIDs. If you locate such bugs, please feel free to assign them to me to look at. (It would help to make sure the title says something like "...add support for <cardname>" in them, as that'd clue me in. Bryce -- -nv reports it does not support GeForce 9100M G https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
