On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Anthony Shipman <als@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:24:36 pm Toby Corkindale wrote:
However the official nvidia drivers have been pretty good for years now. There's a few tricky parts around building them, enabling right GL libraries and matching to the right kernel configs if you are doing it yourself, but if you use a distribution like Ubuntu or a derivative then you can just install their pre-packaged drivers and it all Just Works and you can get on with your life.
I hit a problem a while back when upgrading. I upgraded the kernel first to make sure that it worked, including the nvidia driver. When this worked I upgraded the rest of the system, including X. This overwrote the openGL library that nvidia installs.
To be fair, that definitely sounds like a distribution problem. An openGL package shouldn't be overwriting files owned by the nvidia package. Can't really blame nvidia for that one. The days of random crashes from the nvidia driver are decades ago. / Brett