I had pretty much forgotten about the issues since I discovered “envy”, which did a wonderful job of sorting out the correct Nvidia driver for me.
Unfortunately when I upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu Gutsy yesterday I ran into issues. While the upgrade itself went fine (as far as I can see!) envy simply will not work any longer. It throws a totally unhelpful error and doesn’t give anything in the logs (apart from “I’m not happy”).
Hopefully Alberto will release a new version of his scripts that will work, but for the moment I’m stuck using the “nv” driver.
The latest version of Ubuntu replaces Gaim with Pidgin, which isn’t that surprising!
You can also opt to install Swiftweasel to replace Firefox if you are that way inclined. Apparently there are trademark issues with Firefox’s inclusion in distros such as Debian and so the Ubuntu developers maybe replacing Firefox completely.
The rest of the upgrade was quite boring, which is a very good thing! I got prompted about configuration options for various things. Some I kept, others I let the upgrade overwrite.
I’ve heard that other people have had mixed results with the new release, with some people reporting “interesting” issues with sound amongst other things. I’m glad my desktop PC is being so boring!
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