Heads up: nvidia-310 on kernel 3.8.0-17-generic fails to build

[doctordruidphd]

Nvidia-304 (also nvidia-current, which at present points to 304) was a disaster, so I installed nvidia-310-updates. It worked well until today, when the 3.8.0-17-generic (amd64) kernel was installed by an update. At that point, 310 failed to build, and consequently, no kde.

Installing nvidia-313-updates and nvidia-settings-313-updates fixed the problem.

Forewarned is forearmed.

[ronw]

The nvidia driver wouldn't load after I upgraded to Raring. I uninstalled it and was pleasantly suprised to find that the nouveau driver now works in the last spot holding me to the nvidia drivers (citrix stuff in a windows vm would lose the mouse cursor).

[Teunis]

Based on this report I had a look what I installed a couple of weeks ago, nvidia-313, that explains last nights kernel went upgrade without problems

[blackpaw]

Unfortunately for me, hibernate and sleep crash KDE (on restore) with the nouveau driver. Nvida works fine.

[Teunis]

nVidia might not be very forthcoming to the Kernel people with necessary info for the development of nouveau but the binaries are pretty good these days.
Already since a couple of releases suspend to RAM and suspend to disk work fine on the Thinkpad although I do have to do a few extra and well documented steps to get the latter enabled.
This morning I read their latest version 319 will have improved support for Optimus.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTM0NzE
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/t...-319-12-beta-/

[ubersoft]

Nouveau has come a long way. I can actually play 3d games under wine using them. Performance is TERRIBLE, but I can play them.

... still plan to move back to the nvidia drivers once all the bumps get sorted out, though.