{"id":482,"date":"2010-03-06T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=482"},"modified":"2010-03-06T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T14:35:20","slug":"warning-for-nvidia-users-on-lucid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/warning-for-nvidia-users-on-lucid\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning for Nvidia users on Lucid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting my email to different Ubuntu mailing lists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Nvidia, drivers 195.36.08 (i.e. the current driver in the<br \/>\narchive) and 195.36.03 might be affected by the same <strong>GPU fan speed<br \/>\nissues<\/strong> which affect the Windows driver:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nvnews.net\/vbulletin\/announcement.php?a=39<\/p>\n<p>I have been using these drivers for while now without experiencing<br \/>\nthat problem but, if you want to be on the safe side, I suggest that<br \/>\nyou temporarily switch to the open driver until we&#8217;re sure that the<br \/>\nproblem is fixed. In order to do so you can follow either point 1 (the<br \/>\neasy way) or point 2:<\/p>\n<p>1) Disable the driver with Jockey (the restricted drivers manager) and<br \/>\nrestart your computer.<\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>2) Open the terminal and type the following commands:<br \/>\n<code>sudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf (and select the alternative<br \/>\nprovided by mesa)<br \/>\nsudo ldconfig<br \/>\nsudo update-initramfs -u<br \/>\nsudo mv \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf_old<\/code><\/p>\n<p>and restart your computer.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the inconvenience, I&#8217;ll keep you posted on the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting my email to different Ubuntu mailing lists: According to Nvidia, drivers 195.36.08 (i.e. the current driver in the archive) and 195.36.03 might be affected by the same GPU fan speed issues which affect the Windows driver: http:\/\/www.nvnews.net\/vbulletin\/announcement.php?a=39 I have been using these drivers for while now without experiencing that problem but, if you want <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/warning-for-nvidia-users-on-lucid\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planet","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}