Need updated stable nvidia drivers landing

Bug #1295961 reported by dino99
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Bug Description

To be able to use the latest nvidia card : GTX 750, the 334.21 driver is needed as its the only unique choice right now (nouveau fails).
That driver can be found within ppa like "joe-yasi/xorg-related" but the ubuntu archives should now also propose it (at least).

driver ppa: https://launchpad.net/~joe-yasi/+archive/xorg-related

dino99 (9d9)
information type: Proprietary → Public
tags: added: bot-stop-nagging nvidia trusty
dino99 (9d9)
description: updated
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dino99 (9d9) wrote : Re: Newest "maxwell" cards like GTX 750 needs the driver 334+

Needs the 340 driver to work with the coming kernel 3.16

summary: - Newest "maxwell" cards like GTX 750 needs the 334 driver at least
+ Newest "maxwell" cards like GTX 750 needs the driver 334+
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Jaufré Aligé (jaufre) wrote :

GTX750,740, etc NEED this driver. We need to provide a new driver with actual distributions. This is catastrophic !

Changed in nvidia:
status: New → Confirmed
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

@ jau-3

you can find what you need outside of the default ubuntu archive, like:
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

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Jaufré Aligé (jaufre) wrote :

Useless : normal peaple can't do that. Xorg-edgers is the best way to doom for every non-geek and even ppa's are not something "natural".
Don't think as a geek, think as any craftsman or old man/woman who descovers Ubuntu and realizes that it won't work until he/he use some ppa's that he/she doesn't know...
Ubuntu MUST be user-friendly !!

Other problem : it's impossible to use cuda-toolkit ! THAT is a problem for graphic artists under Blender !

dino99 (9d9)
summary: - Newest "maxwell" cards like GTX 750 needs the driver 334+
+ Need updated stable nvidia drivers landing
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

Since that report date, several stable drivers has been published:
- 334.21: mainly added support for recent 7xx cards (750,...) and some opengl features/fixes
- 337.25: improved 334 with newer features/fixes about hardware like hdmi
- 340.32: again more fixes

All these published in: March, May and August (details for each at: http://www.geforce.com/drivers )

Sadly Canonical's support about third graphics driver like nvidia is always at least 6 months behind the actuality: latest Utopic archive only provide outdated drivers for recent hardware (nothing better than 331.20 as of today).

That means missing:lots issues already fixed upstream, better hardware support: 7xx cards, hdmi, hidpi), improved software features/fixes: mostly about opengl.

Please Alberto, we hardly need some work from you to be done with a closer timing. Note that Debian already propose the 340 driver.

I know that such report is not really seen by the supposed maintainer (only 2 subscribers !!!, a shame), and a quick launchpad's bug search about 'nvidia' provide an endless list of never been 'assigned' bugs.

dino99 (9d9)
tags: added: utopic
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Chris Hermansen (c-hermansen) wrote :

This is an even worse issue in 14.10 FCS. Nouveau doesn't work well for my 750, giving me only 1024 X 768 resolution. And worse, during install, I get such a low resolution I cannot see the full installation window, nor the settings window, so I don't know what that resolution is... but I bet it's not more than 640 X 480.

And even worse than that is I cannot get 334.21 to install under 14.10!!!! The NVidia script fails in various places depending on the options I select for the installation.

I see System76 is shipping computers with this graphics adapter; I guess they have solved the problem in a roundabout way.

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Chris Hermansen (c-hermansen) wrote :

An update to my earlier comment.

Nouveau in 14.10 continues to be unsatisfactory (1024 X 768 on NVidia GTX750 and a 1920 X 1080 monitor).

However, the really grossly disgusting low resolution seen on the live image was fixed by replacing the gfxboot.c32 which was a workaround to a boot problem as reported in 1325801.

Also, more good news... I used the ppa mentioned above in #3 to install nvidia-graphics-drivers-343 and it works just fine.

Still, there are lots of newer NVidia cards out there that need some of these newer drivers, or a more up-to-date nouveau...

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

That issue is now resolved

Changed in nvidia:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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