Ubuntu 10.04 Gets A New Catalyst Pre-Release

A month ago the Canonical crew working on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS received an unreleased Catalyst 10.4 driver from AMD for inclusion with the Lucid Lynx since the publicly available ATI Catalyst drivers had not — and to this day still do not — support the X.Org Server 1.7 used by this next Ubuntu release. Similar [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 To Hang Onto Old Intel Driver

When it comes to Intel’s X.Org driver for Linux, xf86-video-intel, the most recent release was version 2.10 and it arrived in early January complete with Pineview (their next-generation Intel Atom systems) support, X-Video improvements, and various other features. The xf86-video-intel 2.11 driver is now emerging as their next quarterly update that brings in the KMS [...]

Ubuntu Officially Switches To Nouveau As The Default Nvidia Graphics Driver

Ubuntu officially transitioned from -nv to -nouveau as the default driver for the Nvidia graphics cards. The main reason for this change is that nouveau is more actively developed than nv and is considered to be at least as good as nv. However, based on feedback, it seems there will be regressions on certain hardware [...]

Ubuntu 10.04′s Nouveau Stack Gets Ready

One of the slated features for Ubuntu 10.04 early on in its development cycle was support for the Nouveau graphics driver on NVIDIA hardware since it’s much better than the xf86-video-nv driver mess and has a much brighter future, which is especially important with 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” being a Long-Term Support (LTS) release. This was [...]

Ubuntu To Stop Supporting LPIA Architecture

Two years ago Ubuntu began supporting LPIA, or the Low-Power Intel Architecture. LPIA is i386, but with different compile-time optimizations. LPIA was in use by the Ubuntu Mobile project with Intel’s recent mobile CPUs supporting this lower-power architecture. Tests we carried out earlier this year at Phoronix showed Ubuntu’s LPIA-based MID spin can conserve 10%+ [...]

EnvyNG 1.1.0 is now available – please test it

Here is a new release of EnvyNG (which supports only Ubuntu Hardy). EnvyNG 1.1.0 is made up of 3 packages: * envyng-core (which contains the main program + the textual interface) * envyng-gtk (which contains the new GTK interface for GNOME, XFCE, etc. users) * envyng-qt (which contains the new QT4 interface for KDE users) [...]

EnvyNG – The End of the Artwork Contest

First of all I would like to thank all the ones who contributed to EnvyNG with their icons and logos. You all did an amazing work. I received many works and they were simply beautiful, therefore it was very hard for me to choose only one. My choice is based on my (questionable) personal taste [...]

Envy and driver 169.09

envy 0.9.10-0ubuntu2 adds the support for the latest Nvidia driver and fixes a bug: * Fixed: Envy stopped after the process in the virtual terminal ended. * Added: Nvidia driver 169.09 * Removed: Nvidia driver 169.07 Here are the release highlights from Nvidia’s website: * Fixed a problem causing the fan on some GPUs to [...]