nVidia drivers in Maverick do not work due to ABI level
Bug #629162 reported by
Jeff Lane
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #616023: nVidia card : X won't start since 1.9 update, no screens found.
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| nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
The version of the nVidia drivers packaged for Maverick is 256.44. The current version available from nVidia is 256.53.
The .44 version of the nVidia driver does not work at all on my system with a GT240M graphics card. I had to remove that and disable nouveau, download and install the .53 version from nVidia's website to get a usable display.
The nouveau driver is pretty useless, unfortunately, as it does not, on my system at least, support 3d and does not support the max resolution of my screen (1920x1080). The best resolution I could get with nouveau was something like 1280x720 and it looked horrible.
The .44 version does not work due to ABI changes (the .44 driver does not support the new ABI while the .53 version DOES).
| tags: | added: iso-testing |
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