I can’t seem to understand this for the life of me. Why is it that the versions of the Nvidia drivers always seem to be so far behind the version available directly from Nvidia? I’m assuming this is the case, as I just upgraded my Nvidia driver to 195.x using the repository through Yast2 and it broke my X configuration. No matter what I did it refused to play nice. So i rebooted into failsafe, went straight to the website and found version 256.X, installed it and now everything is great. What’s up with that? Am I confused here or is that not a big leap going from 195.x to 256.x? Am I misconstruing the nomenclature here? I’m just confused and please I don’t need to be flamed for my ignorance I just really don’t understand. Just hoping someone may be able to shed some light on this.
Ask here. NVIDIA Linux - nV News Forums
The nvidia linux developers are there and would likely be able to answer your question.
I’ll check that out. Looks like some good info there. Thanks. Oh and it appears 256.x is just the latest release since 195.x Not that far of a leap I guess. Strange how Nvidia warns to only use the drivers supplied in my distributions repo when it was, in fact, that driver that borked my system. The latest version has fixed it and it seems to be alot smoother as well. Strange indeed.lol!