The newest nvidia graphics drivers (302.17) is now available from the official Quantal repos.
Here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal...02.17-0ubuntu1
No do not try to install this one. It will break your graphics.
This is because it has been built against the old xserver 1.11 ABI (xorg-video-abi11).
It should have been built against the newest xserver 1.12 ABI (xorg-video-abi-12).
On April 10, Canonical published in a security notice details about an NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to run programs as an administrator.
It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled large ARGB cursors.
e.g.
The newest (beta) version of nvidia-graphics-drivers (304.22) is available from the xorg-edgers PPA.
That works just fine in QQ.
And yes, it needs the xserver_1.12
I just built the latest kernel from source and all went well, except when I boot into the new kernel I have no graphics acceleration. When I boot into the other kernel (3.2.something) I have nvidia drivers.
2 machines; one laptop with Intel graphics, one desktop with nvidia graphics.
Live cd boots fine in the laptop but displays weird graphical glitches when attempting to boot with nvidia machine.
Conclude that there must be a problem with nvidia graphics right now.
Tried nomodeset but only gets as far as login screen then freezes in low graphics mode.
Have had problems with every new ite
I want to get a new laptop with a decent graphics card. I don't care that nVidia's drivers are closed source as long as they're good. I've heard that ATI drivers are buggier and I was wondering which card would be best. I have options like GT 240M, GT 320M, Radeon HD 4670. In theory I think 4670 is fastest, but if it is going to cause computer bugs it's not what I want. So my question is...
In Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), there is no additional drivers section in system settings, in fact, it has moved to a new tab in software sources.
I have installed newest Nvidia drivers (from their site with the .run file) on my laptop with Nvidia Geroce 420M.
After some time I decided to try out open source drivers there I went to System Settings -> Software Sources -> Additional drivers and clicked Open source drivers and applied the changes.
After a reboot I have had no Unity panel shown when I logged into the system.
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