NVidia Bitmap Corruption and Beta 180.06 Drivers Report

[Octavian Florea]

On 11/25/2008 10:09 AM, Michael Krueger wrote:
> I'm not sure if this was already discussed... but the Kubuntu folks do
> provide updates to the Linux Kernel as well ... and since everybody knows
> that with the 177 nVidia driver KDE 4.x has still rendering issues... what
> are the chances that we get a Kubuntu supported update via Adept to 8.10
> of the nVidia driver that would fix all known KDE issues? Be it 180 or 182
> or whatever. If tests do show that there is a stable working nVidia driver
> I would like to get it via Adept, so that I don't have problems with
> Kernel updates...
>    
Well, the 180.xx nvidia drivers are betas and I think the devs are 
waiting for a final release.
But since that may take a while (and 177.80 doesn't get along too well 
with KDE4) it's no wonder that quite a few users turned into "beta-testers".