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[Andrew Johnson <ajj9@xxxxxxxx>]

What problems are you having with nVidia drivers?  Mine seem to work fine.

Andrew Johnson


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Braden Walters <meoblast@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm talking about the mode where it upgrades everything off the disc if
> it's present there, and upgrading everything else over the Internet.
>
> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 17:00 -0400, Jacob Peddicord wrote:
> > Couple of issues here:
> >
> > A) Upgrading from the CD is not a good option unless you have never
> > installed any extra packages. It only brings core packages up-to-date.
> >
> > B) You would want to complain to NVIDIA about this, considering they
> > only offer a binary blob.
> >
> > Jacob Peddicord
> > http://jacob.peddicord.net
> > jpeddicord@xxxxxxxxxx
> > jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Braden Walters <meoblast@xxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >         Ok, not to be a total downer, but Ubuntu 9.04 was a crash in
> >         burn if
> >         I've ever seen one. Within less than 24 hours of upgrading
> >         I've already
> >         experienced multiple problems. A) The system wouldn't update
> >         properly
> >         from the CD so my upgrade failed. B) nVidia drivers didn't
> >         work without
> >         modifications. I feel sorry for the Ubuntu noobs trying to
> >         figure the
> >         nVidia mod out. Guess I should have waited a few weeks before
> >         upgrading.
> >
> >
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