NVIDIA PRIME in Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10, and a call for testing

Ubuntu 18.04 marked the transition to a new, more granular, packaging of the NVIDIA drivers, which, unfortunately, combined with a change in logind, and with the previous migration from Lightdm to Gdm3, causedĀ (Intel+NVIDIA) hybrid laptopsĀ to stop working the way they used to in Ubuntu 16.xx and older. The following are the main issues experienced by […]

Hybrid Graphics with AMD and NVIDIA in Ubuntu 13.10 and 12.04.3

In this Ubuntu release cycle I worked, among other things, on improving user experience with hybrid systems and proprietary graphics drivers. The aim was to make it easier to enable the discrete card when in need of better performance i.e. when the integrated card wouldn’t be enough. In 13.10 I focused mainly on enablement, making […]

Updates on Nvidia (285.05.09) and Fglrx (11.11)

As you might already know, this release cycle we’re providing updated proprietary graphics drivers using the -updates flavours of our driver packages (e.g. nvidia-current-updates, fglrx-updates). These updates are optional and, if you don’t want to run the risk of dealing with regressions, you may want to keep using the non-updates flavours (e.g. nvidia-current, fglrx, etc.). […]