How hard is it to get an NVidia driver that works with Ubuntu? I have Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and I have tried multiple methods to get this to work, but nothing works. Everytime I reboot, I get a message about being in “low graphics mode”. Here is what I have tried.
- System > Administration > Hardware Drivers
- sudo apt-get nvidia-glx-new
- sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
- Installed “EnvyNG” and had it try to install the drivers.
- Downloaded driver “169.12″ directly from NVidia and installed it.
I have a NVidia GeForce FX 5500 video card with a Hanns-G 19″ LCD monitor (1440×900). Maybe it’s time to get a new video card.
The more I thought about not having a solid backup solution, the more I realized this is a bad idea and I need a good solution soon. I purchased a D-Link DNS323 NAS device from newegg.com along with 2 500GB hard drives. I definitely wanted to use a RAID 1 configuration so this capacity should be a good start. So far setup has been quite easy. The software CD that came with the device is useless because it has a Windows only setup program but using the web interface allows for an easy setup. I was able to access the shared drive from my Ubuntu box and my iMac.
Change log:
0.18 Wed May 14th 2008
- Update test in Release.t (Stefan)
WebService::MusicBrainz
A quick pros/cons analysis…
Dojo – Well written and has many features but poor documentation. There is an O’Reilly book coming out so this will definitely help.
jQuery – Lightweight, good amount of features but not sure I want to invest the time to handle the learning curve of the unique style of Javascript.
YUI – Many features and I’m impressed with the good documentation.
