Canonical needs your help to test Nvidia support for Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10

Canonical's Will Cooke has invited members of the Ubuntu Linux community to participate in a testing program that he intends to enhance the experience for Nvidia graphics card users with proprietary or open source controller.

Canonical is looking for users with a computer with Nvidia graphics interested in test with the proprietary driver and the Nouveau open source graphics driver both on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver and the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish and report any issues that may be found.

"We are looking for volunteers who want to test Nvidia's proprietary and open source drivers. The goal is to find errors early in the cycle and correct them before they reach a larger audience. They are available for Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 on laptop or PC”Says Cooke, director of Canonical.

We're looking for people with nvidia hardware to help with testing on @Ubuntu desktop for both the open source and proprietary drivers. If you have the hardware and the time, please read this thread to get involved: https://t.co/b6ziJSuJTm pic.twitter.com/MImiaj88Ay

- Will Cooke (@ 8none1) August 30st, 2018

Here's how you can help find problems with your Nvidia card

If you are interested in participating, you will need to have a computer with an Nvidia graphics card, a small space on your hard drive to install the Ubuntu 18.10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS test image, and an active internet connection. If you can resize your current partition you can also run a "live" test.

You will also need to have a Launchpad account as this will publish data that will be publicly available. For that you will have to enter the tracker found on this page with your Launchpad credentials. Once you're in, add yourself to the participant list and that's it. Now is the time for testing.