> > From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> > > Date: 18 September 2012 16:39 > > Subject: New -experimental drivers for nvidia/fglrx > > To: Ubuntu QA <ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com> > > > > > > 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 > > Hallo I've just installed the experimental package of proprietary driver and it finally fix my problem with nouveau or others nvidia. There's a way to lay a feedback ?
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