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nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 package

Add nvidia-180 proprietary driver

Bug #298306 reported by Joe_Bishop
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #297543: Update Package: nVidia 180.11. Edit Remove
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Nominated for Intrepid by Jean-Marc Fontaine

Bug Description

Please add nvidia 180-beta proprietary driver. It has PureVideo support and in some cases dramatically reduces CPU usage in playing HD video.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_180_vdpau&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_vdpau&num=1

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Xavier Gnata (xavier-gnata-gmail) wrote :

Not only :)
It looks like this version fixes this bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/294941 (or at least I'm not able to reproduce this bug anymore.)

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Matt (emaillists) wrote :

It should also fix this bug, which seems to be fixed for everything but the Nvidia Restricted driver:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/125970

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Ignacio Castano (castano) wrote :

This driver also has support for CUDA 2.1, which is the first release that supports Ubuntu 8.04.

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