Nvidia Linux Display Driver 169.07 Now Available

Nvidia Linux Display Driver version 169.07 was released yesterday. If you own a GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS 512 or 8800M graphics card, you should know that this driver offers support for them.

The highlists of this release are:

• Added CUDA driver to .run file.
• Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce 8 series GPUs.
• Fixed several X rendering issues.
• Fixed problems scrolling ARGB X drawables in Qt.
• Improved support for interlaced DVI, HDMI, and HDTV modesetting.
• Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 8 series GPUs.
• Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs multi-core/SMP
systems.
• Improved hotkey switching support for some Lenovo notebooks.
• Fixed a problem with Compiz after VT-switching.
• Improved RENDER performance.
• Improved interaction with Barco and Chi Mei 56″ DFPs, as well as with some Gateway 19″ DFPs.
• Added an interface to monitor PowerMizer state information.
• Fixed rendering corruption in Maya’s Graph Editor.

• Improved interaction between SLI AFR and swap groups on certain Quadro FX GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that caused corruption with redirected XV on GPUs without TurboCache support.
• Improved display device detection on GeForce 8 series GPUs.
• Improved usability of NVIDIA-settings at lower resolutions like 1024×768 and 800×600.
• Improved GLX visual consolidation when using Xinerama with Quadro/GeForce 8 series and older GPUs.
• Added experimental support for running the X server at Depth 30 (10 bits per component) on Quadro G8x and later GPUs.
• Worked around a Linux kernel/toolchain bug that caused soft lockup errors when suspending on some Intel systems.

Nvidia really made some Linux users happy with this driver – a true Christmas present – which will let them fully enjoy their video cards capabilities.

You can download the latest Nvidia video driver for Linux operating systems for x86 architecture and AMD64/EM64T

Tags: driver, Linux, nvidia, Nvidia driver

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