NVIDIA Releases 295.20 Linux Drivers

[Fenrin]

gnome shell users should better not update their nVidia driver yet. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174049
new releases not only fix bugs, they also introduce bugs it seems
Well or it's all gnome shell's fault...

[prophet5]

Slightly off topic, but I do have a question.

Since the update to 295.20, Powermizer settings have disappeared. Is this because it's on a desktop system, or should it be there?

GTX 260 btw

[RealNC]

I still have the settings. They didn't go anywhere.

[prophet5]

Wierd. It's no big deal I guess. Out of interest I'm wondering if it's distro related, or the way I upgraded. I just "upgraded" to Kubuntu 11.10 if it matters and used the x swat ppa to install the nvidia driver.

[johnc]

I'm using the x swat PPA on 11.04 and all seems fine.

[prophet5]

A purge and reinstall fixed that little problem I now have Powermizer Settings back.

[storma]

I've still got the mythweb fullscreen popup window flicker. :/

[not.sure]

They still didn't fix the GPU usage monitoring via smi, even for Quadro GPUs.

[efikkan]

Does this seem like a solid driver release? I don't test every single release, but I will look into this one when I have time.

Could Linux developers just ban proprietary blobs please?

The alternatives are not 100% free either, go ahead and ban them as well!

[amrs]

Very happy with this upgrade. I upgraded recently to the oddly named "GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores" since those were in stock in a lot of places. It's actually a GTX 570 sans 32 cores, a GF110 chip instead of GF114.

But the previous NVidia drivers for Linux had problems, waking up from suspend to disk or ram was a little hit-or-miss. More annoyingly, opening a new tab in browser (Firefox or Chrome) from another application (Thunderbird or urxvt) often turned the display into a blinking mess needing a reboot to get the display going again. Otherwise system kept running just fine, remote access was still working.

Now, with the 295.20 drivers things are working great. Haven't had a single problem waking up. With the browser tab thing there's still sometimes a pause for a few seconds, but display resumes after that.