Comment 11 for bug 1431753

Dear Alberto and others, Could you please please backport this fix to the 331 driver, which is the most recent one available for 14.04 LTS (Trusty)? Or at the very least explain why this might not be as trivial as it sounds? This bug impacts a massive amount of Trusty users, and failing to get a graphical interface every time the kernel is upgraded is quite high-profile; a lot of people are abandoning Ubuntu altogether for it. Our whole workplace may do so soon because one of the programs we use professionally requires the proprietary Nvidia driver and our support people cannot afford the time commitment to have everyone use the non-LTS branches.

I also feel I need to point out that the "users affected" and bug heat of this report ( lp:1431753 ) are misleadingly low. Most of the users who trigger this bug land at lp:1268257 . If you look at the stats of *that* bug and all the recent comments, the whole affair starts to look like a trainwreck. We tried to make lp:1268257 a duplicate of this bug ( lp:1431753 ), which would presumably bump the latter to the top of the priority list, but were prevented from doing so by a bug in Launchpad itself ( lp:1450251 ).