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.).<\/p>\n
If you’d like to help us test the new drivers, we have 2 updates available:<\/p>\n
Nvidia’s (nvidia-current-updates) 285.05.09<\/a> and AMD’s fglrx 11.11 release<\/a><\/p>\n Please leave your feedback in the bug reports so that the SRU team can promote the drivers (currently in the oneiric-proposed repository) to regular distro updates.<\/p>\n NOTE:<\/strong> you might also want to keep an eye on this twitter page<\/strong><\/a> for more updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.). […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driver-updates","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","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=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}