[lucid] New nvidia 190.42 driver available

[Noel J. Bergman]

Changelog is here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2105790

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

I tried to make this a bug on nvidia-glx, which kept changing to this other package upon submit.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Is it possible create a package named nvidia-graphics-drivers-190/nvidia-glx-190?

[Nikola Yanev (gericom)]

check this out ;)
https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

What are you doing? Ubuntu doesn't have this driver in repository...

[Nikola Yanev (gericom)]

as far as i know, ubunti repo includes only stable nvidia drivers ;)
but this version is still in beta version, so...

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_190.18.html

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Nikola, a PPA (which I already know about and use) does not qualify as FIX RELEASED, as far as I know. And Karmic is still in alpha, so I don't know that the rule you believe applies actually does.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

For the stable 185 driver, see Bug 408561.

Please note that both 185.18.29 was pulled almost immediately after release, and although 185.18.31 is supposed to fix the defect, it does not, so I expect it to be pulled and replaced soon, too.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

New 190.18.03 beta driver: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html

Not yet in the PPA.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

190.18.03 is now in the PPA, and does not exhibit the problems that 185.18.31 does.

[amichair (amichai2)]

190.42 seems to be an official certified release... any chance of seeing it in the official repo?

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

nvidia confirms that "This driver is now the official stable release." Would be nice to see in the official repositories for karmic and lucid as nvidia-glx-190. People can choose to use either the 185 or 190 series, so it should be safe to add.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

It would be nice upgrade nvidia driver to 190.42 and shipping by https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-190 and both upgrade nvidia-settings to 190.42 version.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

nvidia-graphics-drivers (190.53-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Rework packaging taking Mandriva's as a model:
    - Use alternatives instead of diversions.
    - Reduce the number of binary packages to nvidia-current,
      nvidia-current-dev and nvidia-current-modaliases.
  * debian/rules:
    - Switch to CDBS.
    - Remove libGL.la as no static library is provided.
  * debian/nvidia-current.README.Debian.in:
    - Document the update process.
  * nvidia-current.postinst: try to build the module for the most
    recent kernel in addition to building it for the current kernel
    (LP: #474917).
  * New upstream release (LP: #494166):
   - Add support for xserver 1.7.x.
   - Added support for the following GPUs:
     o GeForce G102M
     o GeForce GT 220
     o GeForce G210
     o GeForce G210M
     o GeForce GT 230M
     o GeForce GT 240M
     o GeForce GTS 250M
     o GeForce GTS 260M
   - Fixed a bug in the nvidia-settings disclaimer window for the GPU
     Clock Frequencies Coolbits page, such that the "Accept" button is
     selectable when the desktop is so tall that the entire disclaimer
     can be viewed without scrolling.
   - Fixed a recent regression that caused the Xinerama option to not
     be set properly in the X configuration file when saving and
     merging from the nvidia-settings X Server Display Configuration
     page.
   - Fixed a resource leak in VDPAU's blit-based presentation queue.
     This bug limited the number of presentation queue objects that
     could be created and destroyed in a single application instance,
     and hence could limit the number of streams that could be
     displayed and/or the number of iterations of "loop" playback.
   - Fixed a power management regression that prevented some notebooks
     and systems with integrated GeForce 8 and 9 series GPUs from
     suspending.
   - Fixed a regression that caused TV-OUT controls to be unavailable
     on some GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
   - Updated the NVIDIA X driver to allow, on GeForce 8 or greater
     GPUs, more modes to validate on digital display devices whose
     EDIDs report very constrained HorizSync or VertRefresh ranges.
   - Fixed a randomly occuring X server crash caused by the PixmapCache
     option.
   - Increased the allowed amount of overscan compensation from 100 to
     200.
   - On GPUs with VDPAU feature set B, VDPAU's handling of some
     corrupted or incorrectly formatted H.264 and MPEG streams has
     been improved.
   - Fixed a memory allocation problem with pre-GeForce 8 GPUs that
     caused GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap clients (e.g., Compiz, KDE 4)
     to display incorrect contents.
   - Modified the installation location and names of internal VDPAU
     libraries to conform to conventions and Debian packaging guidelines.
     New versions of libvdpau expect this layout. Compatibility with old
     versions of libvdpau is maintained with symlinks.
   - Fixed a bug that could cause errors in graphical applications run
     after a previous application using VDPAU and OpenGL. This behaviour
     was observed when running Gwenole Beauchesne's hwdecode-...