Public bug reported: The official Nvidia long-lived-branch stable driver is now 319.49. That means that the recommended official driver is 319.49 and should be used by all Nvidia users except those using old legacy devices. There are important fixes that are in this driver and the previous 319.17 that affect Chromium browser users especially:
+ Fixed a memory leak that occurred when destroying a GLX window but not its associated X window. These can crash machines using Nvidia GPU's according to a Chromium-bug http://crbug.com/145600 "NVIDIA linux drivers are unstable when using multiple Open GL contexts and with low memory.:" and if check `about:gpu` you will see this is a major reason most if not all Nvidia GPU's are currently blacklisted. Also, when using Windows 7 I am liberty to install any driver version I want, keeping my machine up to date with the latest official Nvidia fixes. With Ubuntu I'm stuck with older drivers that affect performance and contain old bugs that have already been fixed. This leads to a lower quality experience than with Windows. Drivers need to be kept current with upstream in my opinion. For the time being I have been cherry-picking *.deb packages from X-Org-Edgers so that I can replicate that Windows experience and it's been working. However, all Ubuntu users should have this experience as well and most do not know how to manually install packages using DPKG so it is out of their reach. The current Nvidia driver versions are as follows: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html Long Lived Branch version: 319.49 <-- `nvidia-current` should be here as stable Short Lived Branch version: 325.15 <-- `nvidia-updates` should be here as unstable Legacy GPU version (304.xx series): 304.108 <-- `nvidia-current-legacy` should be here. This situation has to be solved, Ubuntu cannot be so far behind the curve that it cannot keep Nvidia drivers fresh and in sync with the upstream Nvidia release schedule... ** Affects: nvidia Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Importance: Undecided Assignee: Alberto Milone (albertomilone) Status: New ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: AG Restringere (ag-restringere) Status: New ** Tags: multiarch needs-packaging ** Description changed: The official Nvidia long-lived-branch stable driver is now 319.49. That means that the recommended official driver is 319.49 and should be used by all Nvidia users except those using old legacy devices. There are important fixes that are in this driver and the previous 319.17 that affect Chromium browser users especially: + Updated the nvidia-settings command line interface to no longer assume the "X screen 0" target, when no target is specified in query and assign operations.Instead, all valid targets of the attribute are processed. + Fixed a memory leak that occurred when destroying a GLX window but not its associated X window. These can crash machines using Nvidia GPU's according to a Chromium-bug http://crbug.com/145600 "NVIDIA linux drivers are unstable when using multiple Open GL contexts and with low memory.:" and if check `about:gpu` you will see this is a major reason most if not all Nvidia GPU's are currently blacklisted. Also, when using Windows 7 I am liberty to install any driver version I want, keeping my machine up to date with the latest official Nvidia fixes. With Ubuntu I'm stuck with older drivers that affect performance and contain old bugs that have already been fixed. This leads to a lower quality experience than with Windows. Drivers need to be kept current with upstream in my opinion. For the time being I have been cherry-picking *.deb packages from X-Org-Edgers so that I can replicate that Windows experience and it's been working. However, all Ubuntu users should have this experience as well and most do not know how to manually install packages using DPKG so it is out of their reach. The current Nvidia driver versions are as follows: + http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html - Latest Long Lived Branch version: 319.49 <-- `nvidia-current` should be here as the stable version - Latest Short Lived Branch version: 325.15 <-- `nvidia-updates` should be here as the short-lived branch - Latest Legacy GPU version (304.xx series): 304.108 <-- `nvidia-current-legacy` should be here. - Latest Legacy GPU Version (71.86.xx series): 71.86.15 - Latest Legacy GPU Version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.23 - Latest Legacy GPU Version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.37 + Long Lived Branch version: 319.49 <-- `nvidia-current` should be here as stable + Short Lived Branch version: 325.15 <-- `nvidia-updates` should be here as unstable + Legacy GPU version (304.xx series): 304.108 <-- `nvidia-current-legacy` should be here. This situation has to be solved, Ubuntu cannot be so far behind the curve that it cannot keep Nvidia drivers fresh and in sync with the upstream Nvidia release schedule... ** Also affects: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: nvidia Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Assignee: (unassigned) => Alberto Milone (albertomilone) ** Changed in: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Assignee: Alberto Milone (albertomilone) => AG Restringere (ag-restringere) ** Changed in: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Assignee: AG Restringere (ag-restringere) => Alberto Milone (albertomilone) ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => AG Restringere (ag-restringere) ** Description changed: The official Nvidia long-lived-branch stable driver is now 319.49. That means that the recommended official driver is 319.49 and should be used by all Nvidia users except those using old legacy devices. There are important fixes that are in this driver and the previous 319.17 that affect Chromium browser users especially: - + Updated the nvidia-settings command line interface to no longer assume the "X screen 0" target, when no target is specified in query and assign operations.Instead, all valid targets of the attribute are processed. - + Fixed a memory leak that occurred when destroying a GLX window but not its associated X window. + + Fixed a memory leak that occurred when destroying a GLX window but not + its associated X window. These can crash machines using Nvidia GPU's according to a Chromium-bug http://crbug.com/145600 "NVIDIA linux drivers are unstable when using multiple Open GL contexts and with low memory.:" and if check `about:gpu` you will see this is a major reason most if not all Nvidia GPU's are currently blacklisted. Also, when using Windows 7 I am liberty to install any driver version I want, keeping my machine up to date with the latest official Nvidia fixes. With Ubuntu I'm stuck with older drivers that affect performance and contain old bugs that have already been fixed. This leads to a lower quality experience than with Windows. Drivers need to be kept current with upstream in my opinion. For the time being I have been cherry-picking *.deb packages from X-Org-Edgers so that I can replicate that Windows experience and it's been working. However, all Ubuntu users should have this experience as well and most do not know how to manually install packages using DPKG so it is out of their reach. The current Nvidia driver versions are as follows: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html Long Lived Branch version: 319.49 <-- `nvidia-current` should be here as stable Short Lived Branch version: 325.15 <-- `nvidia-updates` should be here as unstable Legacy GPU version (304.xx series): 304.108 <-- `nvidia-current-legacy` should be here. This situation has to be solved, Ubuntu cannot be so far behind the curve that it cannot keep Nvidia drivers fresh and in sync with the upstream Nvidia release schedule... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219908 Title: All nvidia-current and nvidia-updates need repackaging to mirror official Nvidia releases... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia/+bug/1219908/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
