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. The result was an openGL system that crashed the X server. This wouldn't have been a problem since I don't normally use openGL but lo and behold the new version of KDE used openGL for some silly 3d effect at login time. So always upgrade nvidia after X. Apart from that everything works well. -- Anthony Shipman Mamas don't let your babies als@iinet.net.au grow up to be outsourced.