[ale] New Nvidia Drivers

[Robert Coggins]

Thanks!  I installed the drivers and browsing seems to be much better.
I hope this resolves all of my overall refreshing issues.  I see them
mostly in FF and rdesktop when connecting to windows machines.  We'll see...

Robert

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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