It would be incredibly crazy not to have the latest stable nvidia
driver.
Generally nvidia drivers has bugfixes in that fix issues
In particularly this release has various fixes (including Xserver
crashes) also it has fixes for KDE4 which will help everybody running
kubuntu 9.04..
This is one thing that bugs me about using the Ubuntu nvidia package -
it is never the latest driver and I always have to disable the
restricted manager from picking up nv then install the binary driver
(from nvidia.com) (its more hastle to install the latest driver in
Ubuntu than other distros.)
If you could always have the latest driver available i'm sure you would
have less bug reports, also if there were a bug in this release and it
were easy enough to quickly get the next stable release
(theres no point keeping a buggy driver in the name of stability)
i.e : - The present nvidia driver in ubuintu doesn't have these fixes in
(from 180.44)
* Fixed OpenGL crashes while running KDE4's Plasma.
* Fixed OpenGL crashes when using a large number of texture objects.
* Fixed the timestamp reporting in the GL_NV_present_video extension on SDI
II with Quadro FX 4800 and 5800.
* Improved power management support on some systems, such as
Hewlett-Packard xw4600 workstations.
* Fixed a problem that caused the screen to flicker momentarily when OpenGL
applications exit unexpectedly on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
* Fixed an X server crash when an X client attempts to draw trapezoids and
RenderAccel is disabled.
* Improved recovery from certain types of errors.
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nvidia driver 180.44 is available
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348852
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