Comment 219 for bug 982485

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Don Myers (donmyers) wrote : Re: [Bug 982485] Re: [regression] Nvidia 295.40: Unity 3D does not work at all with the new nvidia driver

Thank you so much for your input. I will keep an eye out for the 302.xx
version.

On 06/05/2012 06:27 AM, madbiologist wrote:
> You can only attach one file at a time in Launchpad.
>
> I'm not 100% sure if the updates should have automatically switched from
> nvidia-current to nvidia-current-updates, but I think they should have,
> base on other people's experiences (I don't own an NVIDIA card).
> Installing packages from the X Updates (x-swat) PPA may prevent this
> from occurring but you got a very similar package for that PPA anyway
> and it is working for you now, which is the main thing.
>
> I understand that you have locked the driver version in Synaptic to
> prevent being downgraded back to 295.40. You may want to remove the
> lock when driver version 302.xx hits that PPA, install it and then lock
> the version again. 302.11 beta is available for testing now (but not in
> that PPA), the final 302.xx driver will have a higher version suffix.
>

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