Linux Display Driver - x86

• Added code to forcibly terminate long-running CUDA kernels when Ctrl-C is pressed.
• Fixed a bug that could cause occasional memory corruption problems or segmentation faults when running OpenGL applications on Quadro GPUs.
• Fixed a deadlock in the OpenGL library that could be triggered in certain rare circumstances on Quadro GPUs.
• Fixed an interaction problem between PowerMizer and CUDA applications that caused the performance level to be reduced while the CUDA kernel is running.
• Made CUDA compute-exclusive mode persistent across GPU resets.
• Fixed the order of outputs in the GPUScaling nvidia-settings property.
• Fixed a bug that caused graphics corruption in some OpenGL applications when the Unified Back Buffer is enabled the application window is moved.
• Fixed a bug that caused glXGetVideoSyncSGI, glXWaitVideoSyncSGI, and glXGetRefreshRateSGI to operate on the wrong screen when there are multiple X screens.
• Fixed a bug that causes corruption or GPU errors when an application paints a redirected window whose background is set to ParentRelative on X.Org servers older than 1.5. This was typically triggered by running Kopete while using Compiz or Beryl.
• Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption when decoding H.264 clips with alternating frame/field coded reference pictures, and a video surface is concurrently removed from the DPB, and re-used as the decode target, in a single decode operation. This affected all GPUs supported by VDPAU.
• Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption near the bottom edge of the picture when decoding VC-1 advanced profile clips whose heights are not exact multiples of 16 pixels, on G98 and MCP7x (IGP) GPUs.
• Enhanced VDPAU to better handle corrupt/invalid H.264 bitstreams on G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, or GT200 GPUs. This should prevent most cases of "display preemption" that are caused by bitstream errors.
• Fixed an X server crash when using the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue and VT-switching away from the X server.
• Enhanced VDPAU's detection of the GPU's video decode capabilities.
• Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause ghosting/flashing issues when decoding H.264 clips, in certain full DPB scenarios, on G98 and MCP7x.
• Fixed VDPAU to detect an attempt to destroy the VdpDevice object when other device-owned objects still exist. VDPAU now triggers "display preemption", and returns an error, when this occurs.
• Enhanced VDPAU's error handling and resource management in presentation queue creation and operation. This change correctly propagates all errors back to the client application, and avoids some resource leaks.

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:
GTX 260, GTS 250, GTX 295, GTX 280, GTX 285

GeForce 100 series:
GT 130, GT 140, G 100, GT 150, GT 120

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quadro SDI series:
Quadro SDI

ION series:
ION

GPU Computing Processor series:
Tesla C1060