Nvidia Driver naming: confused

[Leo Noordhuizen]

Thank you for your quick response, Rashkae

Leo

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> On 04/05/2012 08:57 AM, Leo Noordhuizen wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have hold back asking the following question but it am very curious
>> about
>> it.
>>
>> I am running UBUNTU 11.10 with a Nvidia based graphics card.
>> Over the past time (years ?) I have seen discussions about the nv and
>> 'nouveau' drivers.
>>
>> However when I open 'additional drivers' from System Settings I get 2
>> choices which seem identical:
>>
>>    - NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver [recommended]
>>    and
>>    - NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver [post-release updates]
>>
>>
>> The descriptions with these drivers are identical...
>>
>> Which driver is this ? NV ? Nouveau ?
>> Both ? One of them and the second with the latest bug-fixes ?
>>
>
> Neither.  NV and Nouveau are the Open Source drivers and are already
> included with the default install of your system.  (which one is installed
> and you are using will depend on which version of Ubuntu you have installed
> and how your hardware was detected.  I have no current info on  how this
> determination is made.)
>
> The drivers form "Additional Drivers" however, are the binary, proprietary
> drivers released by Nvidia.
>
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