Using ‘proprietary/restricted’ drivers for Nvidia and ATI graphics cards often results in a less-than-perfect looking boot screen. Although purely a cosmetic flaw – it doesn’t impeded the boot speed or performance – its one that greets you time and time again. Thankfully we can ‘fix’ it. ‘Fixing’ the Plymouth boot screen in Ubuntu Open a [...]
Longing to install and try out the open-source accelerated ‘Nouveau’ driver in Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10? There’s a guide that just might help… Nouveau is a project tasked with creating Open Source 3D drivers for NVidia cards. Whilst they don’t (yet) provide anywhere near the same level of performance as the proprietary drivers most folks [...]
Longing to install and try out the open-source accelerated ‘Nouveau’ driver in Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10? There’s a guide that just might help… Nouveau is a project tasked with creating Open Source 3D drivers for NVidia cards. Whilst they don’t (yet) provide anywhere near the same level of performance as the proprietary drivers most folks [...]
After installing ubuntu 10.10 and installing the graphic drivers I noticed that the ubuntu plymouth logo was looking real ugly. Well here’s a good,simple guide to fix it. First you need to install the v86d package for that open up your terminal and type: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install v86d After installing the [...]
Compiz does not seem to run as smoothly as Metacity on my desktop system. With With desktop effects switched on, I’d also notice tearing in areas of the screen with fast motion including in videos. I was fiddling with Compiz settings recently and managed to fix the problem entirely. If you haven’t already installed the [...]
I recently bought a Hp 2410 flatbed scanner, but I couldn’t install it in my Ubuntu system. Searching tons of pages on net I perceived that the problem was with the drivers. After considerable searching I found the drivers and installed it in my system. Now my new scanner works like a charm in Xsane. [...]
