NVIDIA 180.22 Linux Drivers Released

kendall . New drivers for NVIDIA based cards have been released

Release Highlights Added support for the following GPUs:Quadro FX 2700MGeForce 9400M GGeForce 9400MGeForce 9800 GTGeForce 8200M GGeForce Go 7700GeForce 9800M GTXGeForce 9800M GTGeForce 9800M GSGeForce 9500 GTGeForce 9700M GTGeForce 9650M GTGeForce 9500 GTAdded 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 hereDownload x86_64 hereTo install simply run:Assuming youre 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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