Gee I don´t have Nvidia drivers so I can´t test it. Nicholas, is it that the Drivers will have their own testcase in the packages tracker?
Regards, Howard (smartboyhw) 2012/9/18 Phill Whiteside <[email protected]>: > F.Y.I. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nicholas Skaggs <[email protected]> > Date: 18 September 2012 16:39 > Subject: New -experimental drivers for nvidia/fglrx > To: Ubuntu QA <[email protected]> > > > The technical board has decided to make some tweaks to how the nvidia/fglrx > drivers work inside ubuntu in response to better supporting newer hardware. > > An -experimental package for each released Nvidia/fglrx beta driver will be > made availible. Users can install these drivers independently, with a > fallback by default to the stable driver. They will all have -experimental > in the package name and will be selectable as part of software updater's > 'additional drivers'. > > The packages will come with a warning about stability upon installation, and > the typical SRU requirements will be waived. There will not be a one-week > wait, and while people will respond to bugs found in these drivers, > regressions and bugs can easily occur given the closed binary nature of the > packages as well as the "beta" label given to them by the company releasing > the driver. > > What this will allow for is support for newer games and technology as it > becomes available, even when running a stable release. I wanted to let > everyone know to be on the lookout in about 2 weeks for these new drivers to > land into quantal and precise. Additionally, the package names will be > cleaned up next cycle to better represent the packages and prevent > confusion. > > Thanks, > > Nicholas > > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
