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nux package

  1. Bug #728745
  2. Comment #116

Comment 116 for bug 728745

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Lapse of Reason (lapseofreason0) wrote :

Installing the most current nvidia drivers (275.09.07) as suggested in #114 doesn't work for me either.

I have found that the nouveau driver works quite well though, I've been using it for quite a while now and haven't had any problems. As a reminder: Comment #73 explains how to set it up.

It is a sometimes a little slow though, but according to this article http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTIzMg this is going to change. I tried the newest version by adding the xorg-edgers ppa and it was indeed a lot faster. The only drawback is that it only works with newer kernels though, so you need to install at least version 2.6.39 (An RC of 3.0 is present in the PPA).

I wouldn't recommend the xorg-edgers ppa and the new kernel to the "average" user, but I still thought some of you might find this useful. Most likely this will be in the next version of Ubuntu too, so we can look forward a fast working open source nvidia driver.