[needs-packaging] All nvidia-current and nvidia-updates need repackaging to mirror official Nvidia releases...
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nvidia |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
|
Alberto Milone | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
|
Alberto Milone | ||
Precise |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
|
Alberto Milone |
Bug Description
The official Nvidia long-lived-branch stable driver is now 319.49. That means that the recommended official driver is 319.49 and should be used by all Nvidia users except those using old legacy devices. There are important fixes that are in this driver and the previous 319.17 that affect Chromium browser users especially:
+ Fixed a memory leak that occurred when destroying a GLX window but not its associated X window.
These can crash machines using Nvidia GPU's according to a Chromium-bug http://
Also, when using Windows 7 I am at liberty to install any driver version I want, keeping my machine up to date with the latest official Nvidia fixes. With Ubuntu I'm stuck with older drivers that affect performance and contain old bugs that have already been fixed. This leads to a lower quality experience than with Windows. Drivers need to be kept current with upstream in my opinion. For the time being I have been cherry-picking *.deb packages from X-Org-Edgers so that I can replicate that Windows experience and it's been working. However, all Ubuntu users should have this experience as well and most do not know how to manually install packages using DPKG so it is out of their reach.
The current Nvidia driver versions are as follows:
http://
Long Lived Branch version: 319.49 <-- `nvidia-current` should be here as stable
Short Lived Branch version: 325.15 <-- `nvidia-updates` should be here as unstable
Legacy GPU version (304.xx series): 304.108 <-- `nvidia-
This situation has to be solved, Ubuntu cannot be so far behind the curve that it cannot keep Nvidia drivers fresh and in sync with the upstream Nvidia release schedule...
Related branches
description: | updated |
Changed in nvidia-drivers-ubuntu: | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
assignee: | Alberto Milone (albertomilone) → AG Restringere (ag-restringere) |
Changed in nvidia-drivers-ubuntu: | |
assignee: | AG Restringere (ag-restringere) → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → AG Restringere (ag-restringere) |
description: | updated |
affects: | nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 (Ubuntu) |
affects: | nvidia-drivers-ubuntu → nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates (Ubuntu) |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | AG Restringere (ag-restringere) → nobody |
Changed in nvidia: | |
assignee: | nobody → AG Restringere (ag-restringere) |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu-X (ubuntu-x-swat) |
description: | updated |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
affects: | nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates (Ubuntu) |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Ubuntu-X (ubuntu-x-swat) → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
tags: | added: precise |
tags: | added: saucy |
tags: | added: trusty |
no longer affects: | nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates (Ubuntu Precise) |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.