Comments on: How I spent my day today

By: thinkweird

thinkweird — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:22:38 +0000

This tutorial is the best guide I saw on the Internet dealing with nvidia driver installation. I use a nVidia Ti4200 card, and it works like a charm if you install the ‘legacy” nVidia driver.

http://desiato.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html

By: seven

seven — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:24:03 +0000

if people can use osx for web development, there is chance you could use ubuntu too. :)

By: zytzagoo

zytzagoo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:19:13 +0000

@sh00le: you should try it, it’s incredible!

By: sh00le

sh00le — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:10:58 +0000

Fuck it, switched to Ubuntu on my main box at home. Nvidia drivers working like a charm on it. I’ll see how it behaves now, and if I’ll miss anything from the win32 world…

Hm, WoW?!

By: zytzagoo

zytzagoo — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:17:27 +0000

Fuck it, switched to Ubuntu on my main box at home. Nvidia drivers working like a charm on it. I’ll see how it behaves now, and if I’ll miss anything from the win32 world…

By: seven

seven — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:59:33 +0000

Ubuntu is my OS of choice for our servers. It has been treating us very well so far.

However, I tried running Ubuntu on my laptop and, at first I liked it a lot. I spent couple of hours tweaking it, and everything was fine until I tried to install divx player. I made my Ubuntu FUBAR in the process and that kinda rejected me back to windoze dark side.

By: sh00le

sh00le — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:33:59 +0000

But no. I just had to see if I could install nvidia drivers and enable desktop effects. I could never get those to work. On any distro I tried. Ever. And I really want to see it live.

LOLZ… Well, when I tried to see Compiz Effects I had to:
1) install fedora 10 (I think)
2) reinstall fedora 10
3) install openSuse 11
4) deinstall openSuse 11
5) tried with Ubunutu 8.1 and it worked somehow.

Damn.. it took me a week to select and install linux distro.. Now.. it’s working.. :)
Good luck..

By: arkon108

arkon108 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:41:32 +0000

I forgot to add – but, I’m not sorry for trying it out. It really pays off when you finally see what GUI can look like and how lovely it can behave.

GL!

By: arkon108

arkon108 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:39:45 +0000

Looks like you’re on an adventure! :)

Forgive me, I really can’t remember all the hoops and loops I had to jump through to install Nvidia (I have 6800 GT) drivers on Ubuntu 8.10 and to get compiz to work, but I can tell you two things:
– it looks really good (I spent several hours just rotating the dang desktop cube :)
– it’s buggy

This buggy part annoyed me enough to uninstall it. Specifically – compiz screwed title bars on all windows. They would randomly got scrambled – lose theme color, buttons would become invisible, etc. Second, and more serious problem – I couldn’t watch videos in full screen. Nada. Uninstalling compiz fixed the problem.