Canonical asks the community to test Nvidia support on Ubuntu 18.10 and 18.04

Through a special statement, Canonical's development team has made a call to the Ubuntu user community to be able to help test the driver support provided by Nvidia for Linux.

Although in this special case the Ubuntu developers they want to know a little more in depth about the performance of these and the main errors that have in "Ubuntu 18.04 LTS" and "Ubuntu 18.10".

In this way, by means of a request to the whole community they ask them to help test the support for Nvidia in Ubuntu and is inviting users to this task.

We have all heard of NVIDIA, an American multinational based in Santa Clara, California, which manufactures computer parts, and of course, is popularly known for its series of GeForce video cards.

But the great merit of it is that the company is one of the few hardware manufacturers that produces drivers for Linux. Even so, there is an open source driver for dialing GPUs.

And this is not surprising, because cWith the latest release by Nvidia there have been a lot of issues with the performance of Nvidia cards.

I can say this personally, because in my computer I have an Nvidia card and when installing the latest drivers I have had many problems with a secondary screen.

Besides that the Nvidia control center did not detect the "hardware" and a valid configuration of the "Xorg".

So I was forced to go back to a previous version and even go back to using the open drivers.

And even the third-party repositories that are dedicated to offering Nvidia drivers have been registering quite a few bugs.

Canonical requests to test the performance of Nvidia in Ubuntu 18.10 and 18.04

Now Will Cooke is inviting members of the Ubuntu Linux community to participate in a testing program which works to ease the experience of those using NVIDIA graphics cards with proprietary or open source drivers.

Canonical is looking for committed volunteers who own a computer with a dedicated Nvidia graphics card to test Nvidia's proprietary graphics drivers and the open source Nouveau driver both in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), as well as in the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) and report any problems you may encounter.

On this, Will Cooke said the following:

“We are looking for committed volunteers to test your Nvidia graphics cards with proprietary and open source drivers. The objective of this test is to detect regressions at the beginning of the cycle and to correct errors before they reach a general public, of which they are planned to work for Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) and Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic), on laptops or pc. «

Si you are interested in participating, you will need to have a computer with a dedicated Nvidia graphics card, an extra partition on the disk drive to run the installation test on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.10 or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and an active internet connection.

Of course, it is also possible to run the test in a live session, if you cannot resize the current partitions.

You will also need to have a Launchpad account, which will be used to generate the data that will be publicly available to everyone.

For this, those who are interested in contributing to the tests have to enter In the following link with your Launchpad credentials.

And with this they will already be contributing and sending data to the Ubuntu developers.

Without further ado, I can say that it is an excellent initiative, because with it not only Canonical developers will limit themselves to testing their equipment.

If not, now they will have the support of the community and they will have a more open hardware catalog in which the different tests will be developed and they will be able to collect data from a more open tide with all kinds of hardware that the participants have.