[olug] Hardy Upgrade

[Dave Thacker]

On Monday 06 October 2008 21:24:09 Dan Linder wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Russell Monaghan 
<russellmonaghan at cox.net>wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. I'm an impatient person when it comes to new
> > software, so I started the upgrade about 15 minutes after posting my
> > message. It seems to have worked ok so far. I can see graphical stuff,
> > so that's definitely something to be thankful for.
>
> (I didn't want to hijack this thread earlier, but since Russell has taken
> the plunge to Hardy, I'll add some thoughts...)
>
> My home workstation is a testbed for many things, one of them is running
> the latest Ibex betas.  Everything has continued to work quite well with
> the exception of Amarok4 and my tri-monitor NVidia setup.
>
> The Amarok4 thing might be my fault - I need to remove it completely and
> re-install it, then re-setup my podcasts (I tried a migration script
> someone wrote in a forum that I don't think did everything 100%)...
>
> NVidia has been another story.  In my Hardy configuration, I ran the NVidia
> compiled drivers to drive my dual-head 8600, and I used the plain old "nv"
> drivers to drive the older GeForce2 video card.  That all worked
> well....until. :-)
>
> Apparently Ubuntu has enabled the "xen" support in the -generic kernel.
> That causes the NVidia installer to exit saying they don't support Xen in
> the kernel.  After a bit of digging, I found that Ubuntu was now packaging
> NVidia drivers (nvidia-177 for my 8600, and nvidia-96 for the GeForce2) so
> I installed them.  After fighting for two evenings, and only getting the
> 8600 to come up, I found that there is some bug with the nvidia-96 drivers
> that causes them to crash badly if you have 4+GB RAM.
>
> That revalation was made only this weekend, so I haven't had much time to
> triage my options.  I need to see if booting with the command line option
> to limit RAM will help.  (What is that?)  After that, there have been some
> patches that fix the NVidia driver and allow it to compile even if it
> detects Xen. Finally, I am going to try to recompile my kernel from source
> without Xen and see if the NVidia drivers will compile.
>
> Aahh, the fun of trying to live on the bleeding/alpha edge! :-)

Did you get that into Launchpad?   DT
>
> Dan