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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

ccing to the list.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Dale <dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have you gotten Nouveau to work in Karmic?  It seems there are many
> suggested fixes...  which should be used on a stable system?  All I've done
> to tweak my stable install is to fix the F9 touchpad disable.
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> Lucid was working fairly well with Nouveau installed until my last update
> yesterday - then got nothing but a blank screen after X tried to start.
> Somehow my Win 7 partition became unbootable too after Lucid install - not
> sure how that could have happened.
>
> One thing has me thrown for a loop...  I can't find xorg.conf  so I'm not
> even sure which card I'm using right now.  Is this no longer used?
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> Albert Vilella wrote:
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> Stable production environment, I would personally go for Ubuntu
> Karmic. The Fedora I am mentioning is the one released this last week:
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> http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/2010/02/fedora-13-with-nouveau-gallium3d-and.html
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> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Dale <dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> OK, I'll give it a test.  By latest, you mean latest stable or dev version?
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> And which distro, version do you recommend for a stable production
> environment on UL50vt?
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> On 2/16/2010 5:00 PM, Albert Vilella wrote:
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> Something that no-one has reported yet is the latest Nouveau code with
> nouveau_acpi _DSM calls to switch on/off the graphics card. The latest
> Fedora should have this in.
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> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Dale<dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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> OK.  So what value may I be to the team?  I've been using Linux almost
> exclusively on my home PC's for over 8 years or so, many distros, but
> usually Kubuntu  for the last 4 years or so, and lately Mint KDE.  I
> usually
> create several partitions for testing distros, 1 of which should be
> stable.
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> So, what will give me the most stable environment on this machine?
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> 2nd, what would you all like me to install and test in order to help the
> team?
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> Albert Vilella wrote:
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> Yes, the UL50Vt is also relevant to the team. ccing to the list now
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> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:54 AM, SteelShepherd.com
> <dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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> I just brought home a UL50vt...  Ready to to install Linux.  I'd like to
> help you all if my setup is relevant to your team.  I'm no developer,
> but I'd be happy to test as you suggest.  What version do you suggest I
> begin with?  Latest lucid?
>
> Dale Malony
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