[ale] New Nvidia Drivers

[Robert Coggins]

The 180 driver didn't work too well for me. I had several occasions
where the screen would completely black out and my attached monitor to
my laptop would say it was in powersave mode.  This is in the middle of
me working on it.  Although, some of the performance was definitely better.

Rob

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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