Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 package

  1. Intrepid (8.10)
  2. Bug #297543
  3. Comment #47

Comment 47 for bug 297543

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Shock (mmiron) wrote : Re: Update Package: nVidia 180.06

Alberto: Where are the packages available from? I wasn't able to find them.
They show up in the Jaunty queue https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+queue but I don't think they've been built yet. Launchpad search returns no matches: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+search?text=nvidia-glx-180

I completely understand that the packages are in universe, but in the grand scheme of things Canonical is doing a very poor job especially in light of bug #1. Weeks have passed since the driver has been released by Nvidia and it's still not available in Ubuntu. I consider good hardware support the bare _minimum_ for us to stand a chance of resolving bug #1.

Please let me assure you, Alberto, that in no way I consider you responsible for any of this -- In fact I have nothing but praise for your work so far. Instead I think Canonical needs to find better ways than relying on the community for basic hardware support such as video. For example, Nvidia provides OpenSuse packages for their video drivers, I would assume the same would be possible for Ubuntu.