Here's my experience with a nvidia 8600GT card on ubuntu 12.04. All previous ubuntu releases have worked fine with with proprietary driver over many years. Installed clean 12.04 and using gnome-shell + gnome3 team ppa, nvidia driver 295.40 did a segmentation fault after a hour or so mainly just using terminals and chrome. Installed v295.49 direct from nvidia web site. Still seg faulted after a couple of hours. Installed v302.07 direct from nvidia web site, seg faulted after a few more hours. I have listed the xorg log seg faults [url=http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11904367&postcount=8]here[/url] and [url=http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11907292&postcount=10]here[/url]. Then added xorg-edgers ppa which includes v302.07 plus other updated xorg stuff, still get seg fault after a few hours.
Removed nvidia driver and fell back to nouveau (still from latest xorg- edgers) and Unity 3D plus gnome-shell working beautifully. Note also that virtual consoles (alt+F1->f6) work with nouveau but just gave black screen on all nvidia versions with 12.04. Note that the Settings/Additional Drivers dialog says that a user MUST install nvidia proprietary drivers before Unity 3D will work, to get desktop effects, etc. Clearly this is not true anymore. Nouveau is working without compromise for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/982485 Title: [regression] Nvidia 295.40: Unity 3D does not work at all with the new nvidia driver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/982485/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
