Henri Cook

15 Nov, 2009

Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) a great success!

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| Technical Support| Ubuntu

While I haven’t noticed much new graphical sugar with my recent install of Karmic, I have noticed a significant increase in driver support – this is the first time i’ve managed to install my system without having to drop back to a terminal or even play with text configuration files!

I have a system with three screens across two nVidia graphics cards and a Creative X-Fi Xtremegamer driving the sound instead of the on-board. These are the hardware elements that usually prove contentions and in Karmic:

  • Creative X-Fi drivers were installed by default although strangely were muted, I had to go into the sound preferences, select the X-Fi card as the primary output (which is probably as expected) and then crucially, unmute said card – after that sound worked really well with no further steps
  • nVidia 8800GTX and nVidia 8400GS worked perfectly once the drivers had been installed with the restricted/hardware drivers application (System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers) – I configured all three screens with nvidia-settings and all was good from there

    • No other problems to report, great release for improving driver support and boot time.

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