Ok I haven’t taken the plunge of migrating to Feisty yet. I figured it would be a good idea to get Edgy working on the new workstation before I try to migrate. Turns out it is a good thing I did.
When I did a clean install of Feisty as a test run - I clicked on the new handy control panel - “Enable Restricted Drivers”. When I did that X completely broke. I figured that the feature might be a little bumpy - but I didn’t realize it wouldn’t work at all.
It turns out that the control panel worked fine - in that it installed the nvidia driver. The problem is that my video card only got Linux support starting on March 7th (Well after the Feisty freeze). I guess I should have looked into that before I started the install process. I was able to download the latest greatest driver from Nvida and thanks to a little help from the nvidia-settings tool I was able to get back up in Dual head mode in no time.
Now that my new machine works just like my old one - it’s time to dive into the migration. I’m crossing my fingers that the migration will be completely uneventful - especially since I need to migrate three different computers (workstation, laptop, and file server).
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