Originally Posted by
mc4man
There is an overabundance of nvidia packages atm - 9 total for 3XX in synaptic.
Some are currently the same like '310 & 310-updates', '304, 304-updates & nvidia-current', the experimental packages are slightly older versions of 304 & 310
I'd probably use the latest - 313 (only 1 version) or the latest 304 or 310 (ie. not the experimental
Ultimately use what works best for your hardware, read changelogs if need be.
I moved from the nvidia-current to 313, the performance in steam was not very good, well not as good as the 310 repo in 12.10.
I noticed that enabling the Nvidia repo still messes up the the splash screen. I normally use the answer to this Ask Ubuntu question Enabling Nvidia driver messes up splash screen to change the settings, but it does not seem to work now. I noted that after inputting the final stage I got the following output;
~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-11-generic
modprobe: ../tools/modprobe.c:550: print_action: Assertion `kmod_module_get_initstate(m) == KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)