** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-304 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: nvidia-settings-experimental-304 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-304 (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-304 (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-304 (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-304 (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: nvidia-settings-experimental-304 (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: nvidia-settings-experimental-304 (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: nvidia-settings-experimental-304 (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: nvidia-settings-experimental-304 (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: New => In Progress
** Description changed:
[Impact]
NVIDIA posts beta versions of their drivers to be tested over several weeks.
These drivers usually include important features and fixes but also sometimes
include known issues or regressions that make them unsuitable or too risky for
us to consider inclusion in the nvidia-current-updates package.
However certain commercial Linux games require features/fixes present
only in these NVIDIA beta drivers at the time of their release. Ubuntu
users who purchase these games currently have to manually install the
beta driver (or wait a month or two for it to appear in -updates).
Providing these drivers via nvidia-experimental will enable them to
install and run the game within the Ubuntu packaging system.
[Fix]
- The nvidia-experimental binary package is established (provided by the
nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental source package) for quantal 12.10 and
precise 12.04. This uses the packaging scripts from nvidia-current-updates,
with the renamed package and new .run files.
+ The nvidia-experimental-NNN binary package (and associated nvidia-setup-NNN)
is established (provided by the nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental source
package) for quantal 12.10 and precise 12.04. This uses the packaging scripts
from nvidia-current-updates, with the renamed package and new .run files.
- The nvidia-experimental package will be visible to users via Jockey as
- normal. When a user installs this package, any other nvidia drivers
- will be disabled. They will remain on nvidia-experimental until they
+ The nvidia-experimental-NNN package will be visible to users via Jockey
+ as normal, due to logic provided in nvidia-common. When a user installs
+ the experimental package, any other nvidia drivers will be disabled.
+ They will remain on the selected nvidia-experimental-NNN until they
upgrade to a new Ubuntu release or LTS point release, at which point
they'll be returned to nvidia-current. They can of course manually
- switch from nvidia-experimental back to nvidia-current or nvidia-
- current-updates if they wish.
+ switch from nvidia-experimental-NNN back to nvidia-current or nvidia-
+ current-updates (or some newer nvidia-experimental-MMM) if they wish.
[Regression Potential]
The reason we're adding this package in the first place is because of
concerns that beta drivers will have a high risk of regressions. Thus, users
need to be aware they are taking these risks when they opt-in to the driver.
As mentioned above, nvidia-current and nvidia-current-updates will still
be available to them in case they have problems. In a worst case
scenario they may need to do this from a recovery session.
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Add package nvidia-experimental for tracking nvidia beta drivers
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