Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver

• Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash when renderingoccurred while the X server was not on the active VT.
• Fixed a regression that caused the driver to fail to properly adjustthe GPU fan speed on some GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that prevented performance level transitions on recentGPUs with SDDR3 and GDDR5 memory.
• Added support for the following GPUs:
Quadro FX 880M
GeForce GTS 350M
GeForce GTS 360M
• Added support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Stereo on Linux with Quadro GPUs. See the "Stereo" X configuration documentation in the README
  for details.
• Fixed a bug that caused screen corruption after an application released a GLX_NV_present_video device.
• Fixed an X server crash caused by starting nvidia-settings while X was not on the active VT.
• Fixed brightness control hotkeys on some laptops.
• Fixed an nvidia-settings bug that produced many "Bad argument" warning messages when running nvidia-settings --query all.
• Fixed an installer bug that produced the following message:
  WARNING: Unable to perform the runtime configuration check for library 'libGL.so.1' ('/usr/lib/libGL.so.195.36.03'); assuming successful installation.
• Fixed a bug that caused G-Sync stereo synchronization to fail sometimes when enabling frame lock.
• Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL applications to occasionally crash with "double free or corruption" messages when exiting.
• On GPUs with VDPAU feature set A, enhanced VDPAU's handling of some corrupted or incorrectly formatted MPEG-1/2 streams. This solves a reported issue with "0testbad.mpg".
• Fixed a bug in the VDPAU video mixer that caused chroma aberrations, and corruption in the right-hand few columns of pixels, when post- processing video surfaces with widths not an exact multiple of 4 pixels.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the GPUFanControlState attribute from being set on the nvidia-settings command line.
• Fixed a regression that made the "TVStandard" X configuration option cause system hangs with products from the GeForce 6 and 7 series.
• Worked around a bug in some AUO laptop flat panels where the native mode in the EDID is invalid, leading to a 640x480 desktop repeated six times
  across the screen.
• Increased the maximum number of slices supported by VDPAU for MPEG-2 streams, in order to cope with the region 1 DVD "A Christmas Story".
• Added unofficial preliminary support for xorg-server video driver ABI version 7, including xorg-server-1.7.99.2.
• Fix the soname of libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 and libvdpau_trace.so.1 to match their filenames.
• Fixed a performance regression with non-antialiased text in KDE4.
• Enabled GPU acceleration for many RENDER compositing operations that were previously processed in software, including conjoint and disjoint blending
  modes and component alpha blending.
• Added experimental GPU acceleration of the RENDER CompositeTrapezoids operation. This can be enabled at runtime by running:
nvidia-settings -a AccelerateTrapezoids=1
This is only supported on the GeForce GTX series or newer products.
• Fixed a bug in the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue that caused high CPU usage during "put bits" operations when more than two surfaces
  were queued.
• Updated `nvidia-settings --query all` to report all available attributes queryable through all NV-CONTROL target types.
• Enhanced the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue to provide values of "first_presentation_time" that have less jitter.
• Add support for R16F and RG32F GLXFBConfigs when using GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.
• Added support for A2BGR10 32-bit GLX visuals on 30-bit X screens. These allow some level of window transparency when using 30-bit visuals with GLX and Composite, but they may cause problems with older X servers and/or applications.ARGB GLX visuals can be disabled by adding:
  Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "False" to the X configuration file.
• Fixed a problem that caused DisplayPort devices to behave incorrectly when DPMS power saving mode was triggered.
• Updated VDPAU to improve thread concurrency.See the README for details.
• Altered NVIDIA X driver behavior in the case that no display devices are connected to the GPU.Previously, in this case, the NVIDIA X driver would pretend a CRT was connected to the GPU. Now, the NVIDIA X driver will not automatically pretend that any CRTs are connected.If the X driver does not detect any connected display devices, the X server will fail to start.
  
  To restore the old behavior, use the ConnectedMonitor X configuration option; e.g.,
  Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
  Alternatively, if display is not desired, Quadro and Tesla GPU users can enable "NoScanout" mode, which bypasses any mode timing validation or use of display devices; this is configured with:
  Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
• Disabled software cursors when the driver is operating in "no scanout" (UseDisplayDevice "none") mode.The software cursor image is not visible in remote desktop applications or screenshots anyway, so having software cursor enabled was unnecessary.
• Changed glXSwapBuffers() behavior for a pixmap such that it is now a no-op in the direct rendering case in order to match the indirect case and comply with the GLX spec. Previously, calling glXSwapBuffers() on pixmaps in the direct case would swap the pixmap's buffers if the pixmap was double buffered.
• Modified the installation location and names of internal VDPAU libraries to conform to conventions and Debian packaging guidelines. New versions of libvdpau expect this layout. Compatibility with old versions of libvdpau is maintained with symlinks.
• Fixed a bug that could cause errors in graphical applications run after a previous application using VDPAU and OpenGL. This behaviour was observed when running Gwenole Beauchesne's hwdecode-demos application.
• Modified vdpau.h to increment VDPAU_VERSION, to reflect the fact that new features have been added in the past. Also, add the new define VDPAU_INTERFACE_VERSION.
• Fixed a periodic temporary hang in the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue.
• Fixed a problem that caused resolution limitations or corruption on certain DisplayPort devices such as the Apple 24" Cinema display or some DisplayPort to VGA adapters.
• Disabled the UseEvents option for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs due to a problem that causes occasional short hangs.It will be re-enabled when that bug has been tracked down and fixed.
• VDPAU now allows multiple streams to be decoded at once, without the need to set any environment variables.

Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution's native package management format. This may interact better with the rest of your distribution's framework, and you may want to use this rather than NVIDIA's official package.

Also note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer HOWTO before downloading the driver.

Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.15-pkg2.run

One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run nvidia-xconfig

See the README for more detailed instructions.

GeForce 200 series:
GTX 295, GTX 285, GTX 280, GTX 275, GTX 260, GTS 250, GT 220, G210, 210

GeForce 200M series:
GTX 280M, GTX 260M, GT 240M, GT 230M

GeForce 100 series:
GT 140, GT 130, GT 120, G 100

GeForce 100M series:
GT 130M, GT 120M, G 110M, G 105M, G 103M, G 102M

GeForce 9 series:
9800 GX2, 9800 GTX/GTX+, 9800 GT, 9600 GT, 9600 GSO 512, 9600 GSO, 9600 GS, 9500 GT, 9500 GS, 9400 GT, 9400, 9300 SE, 9300 GS, 9300 GE, 9300, 9200, 9100

GeForce 9M series:
9800M GTX, 9800M GTS, 9800M GT, 9800M GS, 9700M GTS, 9700M GT, 9650M GT, 9650M GS, 9600M GT, 9600M GS, 9500M GS, 9500M G, 9400M G, 9400M, 9300M GS, 9300M G, 9200M GS, 9100M G

GeForce 8 series:
8800 Ultra, 8800 GTX, 8800 GTS 512, 8800 GTS, 8800 GT, 8800 GS, 8600 GTS, 8600 GT, 8600 GS, 8500 GT, 8400 SE, 8400 GS, 8400, 8300 GS, 8300, 8200 / nForce 730a, 8200, 8100 / nForce 720a

GeForce 8M series:
8800M GTX, 8800M GS, 8700M GT, 8600M GT, 8400M GT, 8400M GS, 8400M G, 8200M G

GeForce 7 series:
7950 GX2, 7950 GT, 7900 GTX, 7900 GT/GTO, 7900 GS, 7800 SLI, 7800 GTX, 7800 GS, 7650 GS, 7600 LE, 7600 GT, 7600 GS, 7550 LE, 7500 LE, 7350 LE, 7300 SE / 7200 GS, 7300 LE, 7300 GT, 7300 GS, 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7100 GS, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 620i, 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i, 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a

GeForce Go 7 series:
Go 7950 GTX, Go 7900 GTX, Go 7900 GS, Go 7800 GTX

GeForce 6 series:
6800 XT, 6800 XE, 6800 Ultra, 6800 LE, 6800 GT, 6800 GS/XT, 6800 GS, 6800, 6700 XL, 6610 XL, 6600 VE, 6600 LE, 6600 GT, 6600, 6500, 6250, 6200 TurboCache, 6200SE TurboCache, 6200 LE, 6200 A-LE, 6200, 6150SE nForce 430, 6150LE / Quadro NVS 210S, 6150 LE, 6150, 6100 nForce 420, 6100 nForce 405, 6100 nForce 400, 6100

Quadro FX series:
FX 5800, FX 580, FX 570, FX 5600, FX 560, FX 5500, FX 550, FX 540, FX 4800, FX 4700 X2, FX 4600, FX 4500 X2, FX 4500, FX 4000, FX 3800, FX 380, FX 370 Low Profile, FX 3700, FX 370, FX 3500, FX 350, FX 3450, FX 3400/4400, FX 1800, FX 1700, FX 1500, FX 1400, CX

Quadro FX Notebook series:
FX 570M, FX 370M, FX 360M, FX 3600M, FX 2700M, FX 1700M, FX 1600M

Quadro NVS series:
NVS 450, NVS 440, NVS 420, NVS 295, NVS 290, NVS 285, NVS 280, NVS 210

ION series:
ION

GPU Computing Processor series:
Tesla C1060