Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 package

  1. Intrepid (8.10)
  2. Bug #297543
  3. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 297543

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mattcasters (matt-casters) wrote : Re: Update Package: nVidia 180.06

For what it is worth, I agree with the caution of the packagers in this case.
The driver is tagged beta for a reason. Yes, it's true that most of my Kubuntu Intrepid issues went away with the upgrade to nvidia driver version 180.06. No, that was not the end of it.
As documented on the Nvidia forum, I'm still required to run this after every restart of X, including after every suspend/hibernate/reboot:

nvidia-settings -a GlyphCache=0 -a InitialPixmapPlacement=0

I also agree with Xavier and all since we can at least see "something" on our screens in stead of being dumped to a command line prompt without network support since that's apparently another stupid change in Intrepid.