I believe no further work is required on this bug so closing out the
last task. If this is incorrect please reopen with list of things we
need to tend to still.
** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
** Changed in: nvidia-common (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047681
Title:
Add package nvidia-experimental for tracking nvidia beta drivers
Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-common” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-304” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-settings-experimental-304” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “jockey” source package in Precise:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-common” source package in Precise:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-304” source package in Precise:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-settings-experimental-304” source package in Precise:
Fix Released
Status in “jockey” source package in Quantal:
Won't Fix
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-304” source package in Quantal:
Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-settings-experimental-304” source package in Quantal:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
NVIDIA posts beta versions of their drivers to be tested over several weeks.
These drivers usually include important features and fixes but also sometimes
include known issues or regressions that make them unsuitable or too risky for
us to consider inclusion in the nvidia-current-updates package.
However certain commercial Linux games require features/fixes present
only in these NVIDIA beta drivers at the time of their release.
Ubuntu users who purchase these games currently have to manually
install the beta driver (or wait a month or two for it to appear in
-updates). Providing these drivers via nvidia-experimental will
enable them to install and run the game within the Ubuntu packaging
system.
[Fix]
The nvidia-experimental-NNN binary package (and associated nvidia-setup-NNN)
is established (provided by the nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental source
package) for quantal 12.10 and precise 12.04. This uses the packaging scripts
from nvidia-current-updates, with the renamed package and new .run files.
The nvidia-experimental-NNN package will be visible to users via
Jockey as normal, due to logic provided in nvidia-common. When a user
installs the experimental package, any other nvidia drivers will be
disabled. They will remain on the selected nvidia-experimental-NNN
until they upgrade to a new Ubuntu release or LTS point release, at
which point they'll be returned to nvidia-current. They can of course
manually switch from nvidia-experimental-NNN back to nvidia-current or
nvidia-current-updates (or some newer nvidia-experimental-MMM) if they
wish.
The control file for the experimental package proposed for precise has
some differences from the one in quantal, and also has some
differences against the non-experimental nvidia driver in precise.
Here is an explanation of those differences in turn:
* Conflicts/Replaces on nvidia-*-modaliases (from precise's nvidia
package) are no longer needed. The modaliases packages were used in
previous releases but no longer exist in precise. Since people can't
upgrade from those previous versions directly to nvidia*experimental,
there is no need to have Conflicts/Replaces.
* Conflicts/Replaces/Provides of various nvidia/fglrx packages (from
quantal's nvidia-experimental package) are only needed for quantal
forward. These are required by the new restricted drivers UI in
quantal. Since that UI is not in precise, we don't need it in
precise. (Ref. quantal changelog entry for nvidia-graphics-drivers
304.43-0ubuntu3.)
[Regression Potential]
The reason we're adding this package in the first place is because of
concerns that beta drivers will have a high risk of regressions. Thus, users
need to be aware they are taking these risks when they opt-in to the driver.
As mentioned above, nvidia-current and nvidia-current-updates will
still be available to them in case they have problems. In a worst
case scenario they may need to do this from a recovery session.
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