Comments | markgritter: Success, of a sort

markgritter

Success, of a sort

Apr 24, 2011 00:59

Long, long ago I installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Linux box at home. I set it up with a RAID 1 configuration because I was sick of reinstalling whenever a hard drive went bad. (Previously I had just backed up home directories to a separate disk ( Read more... )

computers, hardware, rant

Comments 3

mgrape April 26 2011, 00:41:42 UTC

Hmm, did you install the proprietary driver for whatever card you have?

There's a tool called envy that might help:

https://launchpad.net/envy

I switched from Ubuntu to (Ubuntu-based) Mint a couple years ago, and for the most part have been very happy I did. There a few downsides, but things seem to "just work" more often.

markgritter April 26 2011, 01:29:45 UTC

I would like to but it appears my card is old enough that it's not supported by the proprietary driver (any longer?) I found a couple other people asking the same thing about the card, with negative responses.

markgritter April 26 2011, 02:04:40 UTC

Envy is now replaced by Jockey, which says there aren't any proprietary modules I can use--- alas.