Nvidia have pushed out three new driver updates today. One for their latest stable branch and two for older hardware.
375.26: here
340.101: here
304.134: here
In most cases you will want the 375.26 driver, unless you have pretty old hardware. It's primarily a bug-fix release with it fixing regressions.
The 340.101 and 304.134 releases aimed at older cards add support for xorg-server 1.19 as well as fix a bug in the nvidia-installer. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
375.26: here
340.101: here
304.134: here
In most cases you will want the 375.26 driver, unless you have pretty old hardware. It's primarily a bug-fix release with it fixing regressions.
The 340.101 and 304.134 releases aimed at older cards add support for xorg-server 1.19 as well as fix a bug in the nvidia-installer. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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BlackBloodRum Dec 14, 2016
Hey Liam,
Thanks for posting the direct links to the driver updates, that's very helpful :-).
In my drunken opinion, you should do all Nvidia updates like that, it's helpful for those of us who are complete nerds and manage this stuff on our own :-).
(I get that distros have their own repo's for this kind of thing, but sometimes a direct link to the source can be better for some of us.)
Note: Drunk pirate alert.
Thanks for posting the direct links to the driver updates, that's very helpful :-).
In my drunken opinion, you should do all Nvidia updates like that, it's helpful for those of us who are complete nerds and manage this stuff on our own :-).
(I get that distros have their own repo's for this kind of thing, but sometimes a direct link to the source can be better for some of us.)
Note: Drunk pirate alert.
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Avehicle7887 Dec 15, 2016
Quoting: Eric1212God, i still have vr 367.44 :P
I was with 355.11 for over a year before moving on to these new ones. I upgraded only because of the increased shader cache.
Let's see how long it will be before I upgrade again :D :D
Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 15 December 2016 at 7:30 am UTC
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In progress testing NVIDIA 375.26 :-)
For now all looks ok.
For now all looks ok.
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It was added to the Ubuntu PPA a few hours ago at https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa and hopefully makes its way into the SolusOS repos soon. Solus currently has 375.20.
Last edited by t3g on 15 December 2016 at 3:31 pm UTC
Last edited by t3g on 15 December 2016 at 3:31 pm UTC
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I have manually installed the driver 375.26 and I have used it extensively with no problems.
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I just manually installed 375.26 and well, it fucked up my XServer. .xsession-errors revealed "cannot connect to brltty, no such file or directory". Never seen such a strange error, but also didn't bother looking it up. sudo apt purge nvidia* && apt install nvidia-370 fixed it, didn't want to bother with 375.20 from the stable repos either. So a bit of a warning seems to be appropriate for Ubuntu 16.04 users.
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Why do Ubuntu users install manually when there's a PPA maintained by Ubuntu staff? A mystery for the ages. Or at least for me.
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Quoting: tuubiWhy do Ubuntu users install manually when there's a PPA maintained by Ubuntu staff? A mystery for the ages. Or at least for me.The ppa is relatively new.
You can install the driver without waiting for the ppa to be updated.
The same way I install it in Debian and other distributions.
I've installed it manually since forever.
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Quoting: tuubiWhy do Ubuntu users install manually when there's a PPA maintained by Ubuntu staff? A mystery for the ages. Or at least for me.
You get Arch users doing the same thing, despite the official repositories having the latest Nvidia driver available. It's usually down to a lack of knowledge, or a lack of patience. Packages take a little while to be updated by their maintainers, and some people just aren't capable of waiting for that to happen.
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