Hot on the heels of Jorge's request to make a more official way to upgrade to the latest Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu, a new PPA and packaging team has been born.
The members of this new "Graphics Drivers Team" are:
Alberto Milone
Jorge Castro
Michael Marley
Rico Tzschichholz
You can see the teams page here, and access the brand new PPA here.
They do state to give it a few days to iron out the kinks, but it's great to have a more official solution. In future it will be as easy as pointing anyone on Ubuntu/Mint to this single PPA to use, and in future hopefully an option directly in Ubuntu to enable it.
No AMD packages yet, but hopefully they will add them in eventually too. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The members of this new "Graphics Drivers Team" are:
Alberto Milone
Jorge Castro
Michael Marley
Rico Tzschichholz
You can see the teams page here, and access the brand new PPA here.
They do state to give it a few days to iron out the kinks, but it's great to have a more official solution. In future it will be as easy as pointing anyone on Ubuntu/Mint to this single PPA to use, and in future hopefully an option directly in Ubuntu to enable it.
No AMD packages yet, but hopefully they will add them in eventually too. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: ElectricPrismI dont really see this move as "deserving praise" as I feel that since Ubuntu is one of 2 supported Steam distros. I feel that having proper nVidia drivers is their duty to their users. Still it's good news, but it's like praising an employee for doing the job they were hired to do.Except that it is technically Valve who supports Ubuntu as a platform for their product, not the other way around. I doubt Valve actually pays Canonical to support Steam users.
Regardless, I agree that Ubuntu should have provided an official source for proprietary display driver updates for current (and LTS) Ubuntu releases ages ago. For hardware support if not for gaming.
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What's the difference between this one and xorg edgers?
(The version names even have edgers on them)
I use xorg edgers atm.
(The version names even have edgers on them)
I use xorg edgers atm.
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Edgers packages did screw up things for me quite often years ago, but over the last couple of years it's been smooth sailing. I'll stick to Edgers ppa unless things change or Ubuntu starts releasing latest drivers faster.
Last edited by Beamboom on 13 August 2015 at 6:44 am UTC
Last edited by Beamboom on 13 August 2015 at 6:44 am UTC
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Hee? WTF is this (this ppa)? This is just a dirty-part-copy of xorg-edgers ppa, but without some necessary files!
Installing those drivers without those needed files can broke someones system. Giving something like that for public use is IMHO totally irresponsible from the developers side.
Installing those drivers without those needed files can broke someones system. Giving something like that for public use is IMHO totally irresponsible from the developers side.
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Is there a forum thread or something to read words written by these guys? Just posting a link to a barebones PPA gives me no context, and thus no assurance that I'm not installing crap.
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Quoting: HunterZIs there a forum thread or something to read words written by these guys? Just posting a link to a barebones PPA gives me no context, and thus no assurance that I'm not installing crap.You can see that the PPA is owned and maintained by Canonical employees and there's a mailing list thread here as linked in the first GOL article on the subject. I don't know if it's official in the literal sense of the word though as the whole thing is very much a work in progress still.
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Quoting: tuubiYou can see that the PPA is owned and maintained by Canonical employees and there's a mailing list thread here as linked in the first GOL article on the subject. I don't know if it's official in the literal sense of the word though as the whole thing is very much a work in progress still.Thanks. Looks like Aspyr is supportive, but the Shadow of Mordor developers are neutral.
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I just figured out that Xorg edgers provide buggy intel drivers and it's better to use version from official Ubuntu repository.
I didn't want to hold intel driver at specific version so I just switched ppa.
I didn't want to hold intel driver at specific version so I just switched ppa.
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