Yeah, it doesn't make any difference. I've even waited to see if the new 2.6.3x kernel might make a difference, but no dice.
Jim On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:00 -0500, Chris McQuistion wrote: > Ubuntu lets you choose between the open source Nvidia driver and the > proprietary Nvidia driver. Have you tried both? Does one work any > better than the other? > > Chris > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Jim Peterson <jim.sokytec...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm currently DB with OS X & Ubuntu 10.04. The Nvidia driver is a bit > > wonky, though, when rendering web pages that you have to scroll on. It > > quite often gives you double lines of text/pictures, but you can "select > > all" on the page & straighten most of it out. Kind of annoying, and I > > think I'll probably end up switching distros or something to see if that > > makes a difference. > > > > Jim > > > > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 12:51 -0500, Chris McQuistion wrote: > >> That's really good to know. I've used REFit on dual-boot Mac/Windows > >> systems. I didn't realize you could use that for dual booting to > >> Linux, too! > >> > >> Chris > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jim Peterson <jim.sokytec...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > EFI is already used by Apple, and if you want to dual-boot one with > >> > Linux (or that other major OS) then you have to download & install > >> > REFIt, which acts like a bootloader & gives you the options to boot into > >> > an OS, from a CD or flash drive, or go into a shell, use the disk > >> > partitioner, get the "about" info, or restart/shutdown the computer. > >> > > >> > Jim Peterson > >> > Technology Coordinator > >> > Goodnight Memorial Library > >> > 203 S. Main St. > >> > Franklin, KY 42134 > >> > (270) 586-8397 > >> > www.gmpl.org > >> > Tweet me @GMLGeek > >> > Library Technology Blog > >> > I'm on Facebook, too! > >> > > >> > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 07:19 -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: > >> >> grub2 supports efi . I don't think grub 1 does. This is one of things > >> >> I noticed when I was playing with gentoo on itanium (one of the first > >> >> architectures to incorporate efi). Isn't efi supposed to replace the > >> >> bios eventually? > >> >> > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "NLUG" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >> > > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
