Comment 82 for bug 948053
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| Daniel Cantarín (omega-canta) wrote Re: nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 uninstallable on Precise | #82 |
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Michael:
thank you very much for the explanation. Since yesterday, after installing the last nvidia-current version from x-swat ppa, i didn't suffered any reboot or hang yet. But if the symptoms come back, i'll try the method you posted here (and, of course, post the results).
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On the other hand, i'd like to say something about your suggestion on upgrading: NO.
That's exactly the kind of things Wintel did to every one of us during the last two decades, and is not the answer.
There was no problem with 173 drivers, there's no problem with the hardware, the problem lies in the distribution changes.
I don't pretend to be naggy here: i love Ubuntu, love gnu/linux, and it dramatically changed my life for good (as a developer) when it gave me the chance to go away from Microsoft. So i'm grateful, and now i tell everyone to get into FLOOS and the community-made software world. That's the reason i can't stand before your recomendation of changing the video card, and of course then the motherboard, which also implies almost everytime a new processor, sometimes new ram, not to mention the rest of the "legacy" peripherals, because of a package dependency problem.
The hardware is fine, the distro runs fine on it, it's just a package change what's bringing all the buzz here. I have a GeForce 9800 GT, 512 MB DDR3, PCIE, and can't install the driver that always worked for me because of that "xorg-video-abi-10" package.
(To be fair, NVidia always had A LOT of trouble, and responsability, regarding graphic cards drivers: anyone tried TNT2 on Win2k?)
What i would like is to get the ability to change my current video driver using "jockey-gtk". That is: selecting 173 for stability, and selecting 295 for new technologies testing purposes. Much more than changing the hardware, i would check for some hack to tell 173 that "abi-10" is installed even when it's not, and tell it then to use whatever other package is out there replacing "abi-10".
Of course, that would be a lot of work. But the consequences are: a lot of people does not need to buy a new PC.
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Anyway, i'm sure that sooner or later we'll have a 173.14.35 package on ubuntu repos, and #948053 will at last be closed. I'll be patient a few months.