Comment 189 for bug 186382
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| Jonathan Blackhall (johnny-one-eye) wrote Re: [Bug 186382] Re: [nvidia 169.xx] gtk window decorator somtimes draws decoration ugly or not at all | #189 |
I *believe* that the point being made about DKMS is that you should now be
able to install the driver directly from nVidia if you want to use it (and
you don't have to wait for the repos to be updated, if they ever are in this
case). This was not a good idea in past versions of Ubuntu because any
kernel updates would break the self-installed nVidia driver and you'd boot
into low-graphics mode. This is frustrating when the kernel gets upgraded
every couple of weeks. Since DKMS has been implemented by default in
Intrepid, this is no longer a problem. When Ubuntu updates its kernel, it
should no longer break you system (it recompiles the custom nVidia kernel
modules whenever the kernel gets updated). So you're able to install the
new driver directly from nVidia without worrying about future kernel updates
breaking your system.