[LAU] Ubuntu-Studio 13.04 Nvidia drivers?

[Len Ovens]

On Wed, February 13, 2013 8:59 pm, John Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:23:00 -0800, Len Ovens wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, February 13, 2013 5:54 pm, John Murphy wrote:
>>
>> > That's what I would have expected. Possibly the 'studio' parts are
>> > causing the problem then (in that I probably don't have the right
>> > linux-headers or something similar).
>>
>> Studio is xubuntu with extra apps. The kernel is the same as the generic
>> kernel (used for all the other buntus) with one different parameter for
>> lowlatency. I think you can even take the generic kernel and add the
>> param
>> at boot time. I could be wrong, we did try that at one time... just pre
>> 12.04 ish so the generic may have changed, zequence in the #ubuntustudio
>> IRC channel should know what the differences are these days. An easy
>> test
>> though is just to install the generic kernel on top of studio. You would
>> then be able to boot either one.
>
> Well I just tried an Xubuntu 13.04 'daily' build and, similarly to Ubuntu,
> I got a login prompt without X running and installed nvidia-310-dev, which
> works OK. It takes ages, compared to Studio, to boot from Grub to login
> though, so there's some magic under the hood of the Studio version I
> think.

Ubuntustudio took xubuntu as it's start at 11.10 and probably hasn't
merged in any new stuff xubuntu has since then. So there may just be less
stuff in Studio.


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Len Ovens
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