Nvidia driver 295.20 - far to many issues to ship in stable release. Games / cinnamon / gnome3 segfaults - use the previous driver!

[yossarian_uk]

Hi

I am deeply worried that Ubuntu 12.04 is going to be released with the latest stable Nvidia driver.

At present there are far to many issues with that diver (that is fixed by using the previous one - 290.10)

For example

1 . Game not able to run *UNLESS* you run with gdb:-

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174245

2. Default 295.20 crash on fork call :-

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174244

3. Cinnamon segfaults with 295.20 :-

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=175501

4. [Regression] 295.17 / 295.20 segfault when searching in gnome3

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174049&page=3

These are manjor issue that are going to cause Ubuntu to get a flood of queries wondering why Ubuntu 12.04 is so unstable (when it won't be - the driver is...)

Nvidia have acknowledged the issue with the driver

"NVIDIA internally filed bug 943126 to track this issue."

So a new version will be out shortly

I would suggest reverting to 290.10 and moving to the new one when it comes out or its going to be a complete mess on release day.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[yossarian_uk (morgancoxuk)]

Hi

New Nvidia driver is out 295.33

Not tested yet - will do over the weekend.

[yossarian_uk (morgancoxuk)]

295.33 fixes the issues as far as I can see