Linux Display Driver - x86

• Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
• Fixed a Xinerama drawable resource management problem that can cause GLXBadDrawable errors in certain cases, such as when Wine applications are run.
• Fixed XineramaQueryScreens to return 0 screens instead of 1 screen with the geometry of screen 0 when XineramaIsActive returns false. This conforms to the Xinerama manual page and fixes an interaction problem with Compiz when there is more than one X screen.
• Moved kernel module loading earlier in the X driver's initialization, to facilitate more graceful fallbacks if the kernel module cannot be loaded. Removed the LoadKernelModule X configuration option.
• Added support for new horizontal interlaced and checkerboard passive stereo modes.
• Fixed an OpenGL driver crash while running Bibble 5.
• Fixed a DisplayPort interaction problem with power management suspend/resume events.
• Fixed occasional X driver memory management performance problems when a composite manager is running.
• Fixed a bug with VT-switching or mode-switching while using Compiz; the bug could lead to a corrupted desktop (e.g., a white screen) or in the worst case an X server crash.
• Fixed a bug that could cause GPU errors in some cases while driving Quadro SDI products.
• Fixed a several second hang when VT-switching while OpenGL stereo applications were running on pre-G80 Quadro GPUs.
• Added support for multiple swap group members on G80 and later Quadro GPUs.
• Fixed the behavior of the NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SYNC_DELAY NV-CONTROL attribute on Quadro G-Sync II.
• Fixed a problem with Quadro SDI where transitioning from "clone mode" to "OpenGL mode" would fail.
• Fixed VDPAU to eliminate some cases of corruption when decoding H.264 video containing field-coded reference frames on G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, or GT200 GPUs. Such streams are commonly found in DVB broadcasts.
• Slightly improved the performance of the VDPAU noise reduction algorithm.
• Enhanced VDPAU to validate whether overlay usage is supported by the current hardware configuration, and to automatically fall back to the blit-based presentation queue if required.
• Fixed error checking in VdpVideoMixerRender, to reject calls that specify more layers than the VdpMixer was created with.
• Modified VDPAU's VDPAU_DEBUG code to emit a complete backtrace on all platforms, not just on 32-bit Linux.
• Improved interaction between VDPAU and PowerMizer; appropriate performance levels should now be chosen for video playback of all standard resolutions on all supported GPUs.
• Fixed a bug in VDPAU that sometimes caused "display preemption" when the VdpDecoderCreate function failed.
• Fixed a potential segfault in the VDPAU trace library, triggered by a multi-threaded application creating a new VdpDevice in one thread, at the same time that another thread detected "display preemption".

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-x86-185.18.31-pkg1.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:
GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 295, GTX 285

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quadro Plex series:
Model IV, D Series, Model II

Quadro G-Sync series:
G-Sync II, G-Sync I

Quadro SDI series:
Quadro SDI

ION series:
ION

GPU Computing Processor series:
Tesla C1060