Ubuntu 11.10 will Provide Post Release Updates for ATI and Nvidia Proprietory Drivers
Interesting – searched for this after seeing as an option in Alternative drivers via Ubuntu control centre.
Tried it and it works for me ;-)
Updates to the proprietary AMD Catalyst and NVIDIA drivers post-release will finally be available! No longer will you be bound to the latest NVIDIA / AMD driver release at the time of the distribution’s release. Canonical is looking to provide optional packages via Jockey that user’s can opt-in to using that would enable using the latest monthly / stable blobs. This though isn’t for open-source driver users since those are harder to update in a sane manner, but there is also xorg-edgers for that as well.
In my list of drivers, there are 2 ati one is post release. What is the difference the the non-post release? shoul I install both?
jamesmuga
October 18, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I have NVIDIA so my options are:
Version 173
(post-release updates) Version 173
(version current) [Recommended]
(post-release updates) (version current-updates) <—-
I selected the last option.
SilverWav
October 23, 2011 at 10:00 am