New nVidia beta driver released

[Macr237]

Now they have 180.22 released. I haven't loaded it yet to see what differences, but I have been happy with 180.17.

[loomsen]

I have downloaded and installed it some days ago. Did not noticable change performance, tho I'll probably switch back to the opengl3.0 driver which I liked better somehow. Can't tell exactly but for my computer it just seems to suit somewhat better.

[HunterK]

Now they have 180.22 released. I haven't loaded it yet to see what differences, but I have been happy with 180.17.

I tried that driver with my 6800GT and it really messed things up for me. Clicking on a window to drag it resulted in a split second pause. Firefox scrolling was horrible.

180.18 work great for me!

[Zakhafr]

Do you know, by any chance, if 180.22 will be on backports repositories for Intrepid... or if someone has it on some kind of PPA repo (it has already been packaged for Jaunty : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...cs-drivers-180)

[loomsen]

You can still use the jaunty pkges in intrepid.

jaunty is a hint that this version isnt stable yet.

Do this to download all available binaries to a folder in your home directory:

NOTE the links are for the amd64 version. You'll find the pkges for the 32bit version HERE, on the right side, where resulting binaries are listed.

Open a terminal, type (or simply copy n paste):

mkdir src && mkdir nvidia && cd src/nvidia

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21067512/nvidia-180-kernel-source_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21067509/nvidia-180-libvdpau_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21067508/nvidia-180-modaliases_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21067510/nvidia-glx-180_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21067511/nvidia-glx-180-dev_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Make sure u copy the whole lines to get all (5) available binaries
When done you can install the pkges with:

sudo dpkg -i nvidia-180-kernel-source_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb nvidia-180-libvdpau_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb nvidia-180-modaliases_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb nvidia-glx-180_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb nvidia-glx-180-dev_180.22-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Reboot your computer, and if you disable the bootsplash you should be able to read a line telling you that DKMS compiled the nvidia kernel module version 180.22 for your kernel.

You can also type

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

into a terminal to check which version is installed.