** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** No longer affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates (Ubuntu)
** No longer affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates (Ubuntu
Precise)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219908
Title:
[needs-packaging] All nvidia-current and nvidia-updates need
repackaging to mirror official Nvidia releases...
Status in Nvidia Feature Request and Bug Reporting:
New
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates” source package in Precise:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates” source package in Precise:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
The official Nvidia long-lived-branch stable driver is now 319.49.
That means that the recommended official driver is 319.49 and should
be used by all Nvidia users except those using old legacy devices.
There are important fixes that are in this driver and the previous
319.17 that affect Chromium browser users especially:
+ Fixed a memory leak that occurred when destroying a GLX window but
not its associated X window.
These can crash machines using Nvidia GPU's according to a Chromium-
bug http://crbug.com/145600 "NVIDIA linux drivers are unstable when
using multiple Open GL contexts and with low memory.:" and if check
`about:gpu` you will see this is a major reason most if not all Nvidia
GPU's are currently blacklisted.
Also, when using Windows 7 I am at liberty to install any driver
version I want, keeping my machine up to date with the latest official
Nvidia fixes. With Ubuntu I'm stuck with older drivers that affect
performance and contain old bugs that have already been fixed. This
leads to a lower quality experience than with Windows. Drivers need
to be kept current with upstream in my opinion. For the time being I
have been cherry-picking *.deb packages from X-Org-Edgers so that I
can replicate that Windows experience and it's been working. However,
all Ubuntu users should have this experience as well and most do not
know how to manually install packages using DPKG so it is out of their
reach.
The current Nvidia driver versions are as follows:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Long Lived Branch version: 319.49 <-- `nvidia-current` should be here as
stable
Short Lived Branch version: 325.15 <-- `nvidia-updates` should be here as
unstable
Legacy GPU version (304.xx series): 304.108 <-- `nvidia-current-legacy`
should be here.
This situation has to be solved, Ubuntu cannot be so far behind the
curve that it cannot keep Nvidia drivers fresh and in sync with the
upstream Nvidia release schedule...
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