I love my Nvidia GTX 260 card and want treat it to the latest Linux drivers.
However, Ubuntu public repositories provide only the "stable" versions of everything.
In the case of nvidia binary packages, newer releases are almost always more stable than the previous ones. Its in your best interests to use the latest binary packages.
The "loop F5" way of doing this is to keep an eye out for the latest driver releases.
In this case, you have to do all the hard work yourself: Download, kill gdm, install package, reboot, and so on.
Any kernel update from Canonical and you have to re-install the whole thing once again.
Wouldn't it be good if there was a repository that would just do all this for you?
Presenting: Launchpad X Updates PPA!
Obey.
Friday, June 5, 2009
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