Another extremely urgent nVidia driver testing request

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Mon Apr 4 05:30:14 CDT 2005


Hi Daniel!

Daniel Stone [2005-04-04 20:10 +1000]:
> Hi all,
> nVidia have released another version of their driver (1.0.7174) as an
> errata release to 1.0.7167 with very few changes.  We're hopefully
> going to pick this one up for Hoary, but as with 7167, it needs a fair
> bit of testing.  If anyone with an nVidia card could please add this
> to their sources list:
> deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/l-r-m/ i386/
> for i386 users, or:
> deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/l-r-m/ amd64/

I upgraded, reloaded the module, restarted gdm, and tried glxinfo,
glxgears, tuxracer, and mplayer (nvidia also accellerates movie
playback considerably). I did not see any regresion.

However, what about adding "rmmod nvidia && modprobe nvidia" to the
postinst somewhere? 

Thanks,

Martin


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