Some time within the next few days I need to perform quite a bit of follow-up testing to help squash this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...u/+bug/1412602
It affects Vivid, Utopic, and 14.04.2 (Trusty with the Utopic HWE stack). One of the big hang-ups for me is that's my HTPC (nothing fancy but I have no TV so it's my only source of entertainment aside from a small AM/FM radio) and it's also not in an ergonomic friendly location. So sometime in the next day or two I want to temporarily swap that computer into my testing suite (two PC's sharing peripherals with a KVM switch) and use another PC for streaming. I've already added some additional storage (a second hard drive) to that streaming box so I'll be able to turn it into a multi-boot box easily for testing.
I have a dumb question though :redface:
The biggest change will be going from a 21.5" widescreen monitor running @ 1920x1080 down to an 18.5" monitor running @ 1366x768. The current "stable" OS is Trusty and a recent kernel update breaks nouveau (that bug) but nvidia-current is fine. Naturally I'd like to NOT break the "stable" OS.
So if I were to boot the "stable" OS with the nvidia drivers enabled would the nvidia driver automatically handle the monitor change? Or would it be better to change to the nouveau driver before the swap? I guess the latter would be the safest way to go because I know I can boot nouveau using the "nouveau.config=NvMSI=0" boot parameter.
Any thoughts? Always better to ask a dumb question rather than make a dumb mistake, eh?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...u/+bug/1412602
It affects Vivid, Utopic, and 14.04.2 (Trusty with the Utopic HWE stack). One of the big hang-ups for me is that's my HTPC (nothing fancy but I have no TV so it's my only source of entertainment aside from a small AM/FM radio) and it's also not in an ergonomic friendly location. So sometime in the next day or two I want to temporarily swap that computer into my testing suite (two PC's sharing peripherals with a KVM switch) and use another PC for streaming. I've already added some additional storage (a second hard drive) to that streaming box so I'll be able to turn it into a multi-boot box easily for testing.
I have a dumb question though :redface:
The biggest change will be going from a 21.5" widescreen monitor running @ 1920x1080 down to an 18.5" monitor running @ 1366x768. The current "stable" OS is Trusty and a recent kernel update breaks nouveau (that bug) but nvidia-current is fine. Naturally I'd like to NOT break the "stable" OS.
So if I were to boot the "stable" OS with the nvidia drivers enabled would the nvidia driver automatically handle the monitor change? Or would it be better to change to the nouveau driver before the swap? I guess the latter would be the safest way to go because I know I can boot nouveau using the "nouveau.config=NvMSI=0" boot parameter.
Any thoughts? Always better to ask a dumb question rather than make a dumb mistake, eh?
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