[ale] New Nvidia Drivers

[Jeff Hubbs]

I had to chuckle a bit...

When I last put Gentoo on an nVidia desktop, the proprietary nVidia 
driver that was selected by Portage as current at that time was too 
*new* for the card; I backed it down a version or two (can't recall 
exactly), recompiled kernel, and all was good. 

Omar Chanouha wrote:
> I don't know if this message will help anyone, but it may.
>
> If you happen to be running a desktop with nvidia drivers, and your
> distro does not automatically update you to the bleeding edge, ie.
> gentoo. Then you might want to consider getting the new 180.* series
> of drivers have resolved what I would consider a huge bug with
> firefox. Prior to updating, certain sites, gmail specifically, would
> scroll very slowly and hi-res flash videos were very choppy.
>
> You can get your current driver number from /proc/driver/nvidia/version
>
> and you can test your driver with this site:
>
> http://www.gatechdining.com/plans.html
>
> Just go there and scroll up and down quickly, if it scrolls your good.
> If it freezes and your CPU jumps to 99%, your not so good.
>
> Hope that is not old news, and helps someone,
>
> -OFosho, Miami Dolphin and Relieved Nvidia User
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