New drivers for NVIDIA based cards have been released

Release Highlights
Added support for the following GPUs:
Quadro FX 2700M
GeForce 9400M G
GeForce 9400M
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 8200M G
GeForce Go 7700
GeForce 9800M GTX
GeForce 9800M GT
GeForce 9800M GS
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9700M GT
GeForce 9650M GT
GeForce 9500 GT
Added initial support for PureVideo-like features via the new VDPAU API (see the vdpau.h header file installed with the driver).
Added support for CUDA 2.1.
Added preliminary support for OpenGL 3.0.
Added new OpenGL workstation performance optimizations.
Enabled the glyph cache by default and extended its support to all supported GPUs.
Disabled shared memory X pixmaps by default; see the “AllowSHMPixmaps” option.
Improved X pixmap placement on GeForce 8 series and later GPUs.
Improved stability on some GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs.
Fixed a regression that could result in window decoration corruption when running Compiz using Geforce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
Fixed an nvidia-settings crash when xorg.conf contains Device and Screen sections but no ServerLayout section.
Fixed a problem parsing the monitor sync range X config file options.
Fixed a problem with the SDI sync skew controls in nvidia-settings.
Fixed a problem that caused some SDI applications to hang or crash.
Added support for SDI full-range color.
Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.

Download x86 here
Download x86_64 here

To install simply run:
Assuming you’re running x86

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.22-pkg1.run

You can uninstall the previous version of the nvidia driver by running:

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.22-pkg1.run –uninstall

Note: I have downloaded and installed without any issues.

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