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[George Nace <gnace@xxxxxxxx>]

I recently updated my NVIDIA driver on my Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1 desktop 
to get a performance gain using your suggested ppa:graphics-driver/ppa. 
I now have the latest beta version of the NVIDIA driver installed on my 
system: nvidia-396, updated from the very old distro version. I used all 
three methods listed in the following article:
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux

Some additional info:
GPU:  GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti]

I also during the process downloaded and manually installed the latest 
official NVIDIA driver for my system:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.87.run

While that ran successfully on my system without too much tinkering I 
can't recommend that method for obvious reasons (it took me several 
tries due to incompatibilities with nouveau drivers, etc.) and I wound 
up re-enabling my GRUB menu and installing it from a root prompt in GRUB 
recovery mode...

I tried to run the suggested phoronix-test-suite listed in your graphics 
drivers PPA (THANKS for the suggestion) both before and after installing 
the correct driver. The before test suite failed for some reason - 
either because I had only a frame buffer (no nouveau or GPU driver), or 
because I was using the old version of the phoronix-test-suite installed 
by apt - most of the tests ran okay until I got to the xonotic test 
suite which hung. I wound up installing the latest version of the 
phoronix-test-suite directly from the developer site: 
https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com (I downloaded the Debian package 
from their site which installed succesfully.)

Test suite command line as suggested in your PPA:

# phoronix-test-suite default-benchmark openarena xonotic tesseract 
gputest unigine-valley

Link to the results for my system on OpenBenchmarking.org:

https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1810097-RA-GNLIMBOTE74

Sorry to be so verbose, but I hope that gives you some context for the 
report. I hope it is useful. Let me know if you have any additional 
questions - I joined the team and am currently subscribed to the list 
email.

Congratulations on having no Open Bugs by the way!

--George Nace <gnace@xxxxxxxx>