The driver has been updated (Bug 315169), but the nvidia-settings package is comparatively ancient, dating back to:
ii nvidia-settings 177.78-0ubuntu2.1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
Confirmed with:
$ apt-cache show nvidia-settings Package: nvidia-settings Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 1992 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden> Original-Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <email address hidden> Architecture: amd64 Version: 177.78-0ubuntu2.1
Please upgrade us to the current release version: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-180.22.tar.gz
The driver has been updated (Bug 315169), but the nvidia-settings package is comparatively ancient, dating back to:
ii nvidia-settings 177.78-0ubuntu2.1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
Confirmed with:
$ apt-cache show nvidia-settings Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <email address hidden>
Package: nvidia-settings
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 1992
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-
Architecture: amd64
Version: 177.78-0ubuntu2.1
Please upgrade us to the current release version: ftp://download. nvidia. com/XFree86/ nvidia- settings/ nvidia- settings- 180.22. tar.gz