Update to 310.19

[Bryce Harrington]

Version 310.19 was released recently.

As per the TB expedited experimental driver policy, precise, quantal, and raring should all be updated to this version as soon as practical. (For raring we're still waiting on the package to get moved out of New.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[yossarian_uk (morgancoxuk)]

Really Ubuntu needs to ship the nvidia driver as a roling release.

Ubuntu devs cannot fix the driver (being closed source..) and keeping an older version with known bugs in is insane.

i.e in the name of 'stability' Ubuntu ships a nvidia driver with known bugs in that are fixed in later releases - that doesn;t make any sense.

As well as shipping a driver with known bugs (how on earth is that good for LTS versions?) it lacks support of later cards.

i.e at work a person who has never used Linux on the desktop before (normally a Mac user) came across the bug where a 2nd monitor will never wake up . You have to reboot to fix it - this was fixed in a later version but Ubuntu keeps the version with the bugs.....

[John Calla (jwcalla1)]

Hopefully a good resolution can be found for this.

We went from having the ease of the x-swat PPA updated with the latest stable driver on the day of release to then being forced to play with beta drivers only in Jockey, to now having to find the option buried somewhere under Software Sources.

What used to be an extremely easy task in Ubuntu (i.e., keeping video drivers up to date), has become very convoluted and troublesome.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Is this still useful now that 310.32 is a stable driver?

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

We'll get the latest stable driver into Precise as soon as our policy is finalised.