nVidia 'binary blob' drivers

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Friday 03 April 2009 18:35:41 Clive Messer wrote:
> 
> The recently released "stable" nVidia 180.44 driver contains a fix for OpenGL 
> crashing when running plasma. Obviously relevant to this list. rpmfusion 
> latest f10 package was for 180.29. (I think 180.37 was only packaged for dev.) 
> Anyway, it might be worth asking if they can upgrade the f10 build. 
> 
> I've been running 180.44 on f10 with GTX295, GTX260, 8800GTX & 7900GTO, using 
> CUDA, mplayer with vdpau, and OpenGL games on top of KDE (de enabled), without 
> a single crash or hang so far. Certainly not the case, pre 180.44! Just 
> thought I'd mention it. 
> 
There are other problems right now with the 180.44 driver.

See post http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=130219

This problem has existed with every driver past 180.29. Unless you have a compelling reason to update your driver I would stick with 180.29

Eli


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