Do you recall that natty PPA Canonical set up to help Ubuntu gamers install the latest graphics drivers on Ubuntu? Heck, you might even be using it. And if you are it won’t have escaped your notice that the PPA only […]
Unity, the well known engine powering some of the world's most popular games, has launched an experimental version of its games editor on Linux.
Just days after proposing the creation of a new PPA to provide Ubuntu users with the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers the Ubuntu community has, well, just that.
Ubuntu developers want to make it easier for you to install latest NVIDIA Linux driver release on Ubuntu.
The latest NVidia GeForce driver, released yesterday, gives Linux users 'double the performance' and 'dramatically reduces game loading times', according to the company's press release. Having been in development for almost a year, the GeForce R310 driver has been designed to 'showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system'.
Open-source "Nvidia Optimus" graphics switching tool 'Bumblebee has a PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu users with laptops housing NVIDIA's "Optimus" technology, which allows Windows users to switch between Intel integrated graphics and NVIDIA's own graphics chips as and when needed, may be interested to learn of a new open-source tool which aims to enable the feature on Linux.
Longing to install and try out the open-source accelerated 'Nouveau' driver in Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10? There's a guide that just might help... Nouveau is a project tasked with creating Open Source 3D drivers for NVidia cards. Whilst they don't (yet) provide anywhere near the same level of performance as the proprietary drivers most folks use they are a free and capable drop-in.
Jean-Baptiste Lallement from the Ubuntu Quality Assurance team has announced the introduction of a weekly testing program for nVidia proprietary drivers.
With the current flurry of excitement over the announced aim of Ubuntu switching the current X server with the promising ‘Wayland’ display server in the near future, NVidia have decided to join in the jamboree […]
Nvidia using Ubuntu 10.10 adopters suffering from performance regressions in which some applications are slow to 'redraw' and text rendering is laggy, may wish to try one of the two following solutions.
Installing Nvidia drivers manually isn’t as big of a deal as it sounds. It’s literally a few button pushes, a round of “Ok”, “Ok”, “Ok” and a reboot. In many respects it’s the easiest way […]