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
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