Re: Nvidia Driver naming: confused

Thank you for your quick response, Rashkae

Leo

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 04/05/2012 08:57 AM, Leo Noordhuizen wrote:

Hello,

I have hold back asking the following question but it am very curious
about
it.

I am running UBUNTU 11.10 with a Nvidia based graphics card.
Over the past time (years ?) I have seen discussions about the nv and
'nouveau' drivers.

However when I open 'additional drivers' from System Settings I get 2
choices which seem identical:

- NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver [recommended]
and
- NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver [post-release updates]


The descriptions with these drivers are identical...

Which driver is this ? NV ? Nouveau ?
Both ? One of them and the second with the latest bug-fixes ?


Neither. NV and Nouveau are the Open Source drivers and are already
included with the default install of your system. (which one is installed
and you are using will depend on which version of Ubuntu you have installed
and how your hardware was detected. I have no current info on how this
determination is made.)

The drivers form "Additional Drivers" however, are the binary, proprietary
drivers released by Nvidia.

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