NVIDIA Linux Driver 180.29 Released
Here are the highlights of the latest NVIDIA Driver released for Linux:
Version: 180.29Operating System: Linux x86Release Date: February 11, 2009
Release Highlights
* Added support for the following GPUs: o GeForce 9300 GE o Quadro NVS 420 * Added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs. * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to display a green screen when using the overlay-based presentation queue with interlaced modes. * Fixed a bug that prevented VDPAU from working correctly after X server restarts on some GPUs. moving supplies . * Improved VDPAU’s handling of mode switches; eliminated a crash in its mode switch recovery code and a hang in the blit-based presentation queue. * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to crash when using DisplayPort devices. * Fixed a potential hang in VDPAU when using the blit-based presentation queue on systems with multiple GPUs not in SLI mode. * Implemented missing error checking of layer data in VDPAU’s VdpVideoMixerRender function. * Improved VDPAU’s handling of setups with multiple GPUs, if a subset of the GPUs cannot be supported due to resource limitations. * Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the NVIDIA X driver and VDPAU. * Fix potential hang in VDPAU when the overlay is already in use. * Improved workstation OpenGL performance. * Fixed an X driver acceleration bug that resulted in Xid errors on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs. * Updated the X driver to consider GPUs it does not recognize supported, allowing it to drive some GPUs it previously ignored. * Added the ability to run distribution provided pre- and post-installation hooks to ‘nvidia-installer’; please see the ‘nvidia-installer’ manual page for details. * Updated the X driver’s metamode parser to allow mode names with periods (i.e. ‘.’s). * Fixed a problem in VDPAU that prevented the overlay-based presentation queue from being used on displays connected by component video. * Fixed various problems in VDPAU that caused visual corruption when decoding certain MPEG-2 video streams. * Fixed a crash in VDPAU caused by certain invalid MPEG-2 streams, in 64-bit drivers for some GPUs. * Fixed an X driver performance problem on integrated GPUs. * Fixed a stability problem with OpenGL applications using FSAA. * Fixed an initialization problem that caused some AGP GPUs to be used in PCI compatibility mode. * Fixed a bug that could result in stability problems after changing clock settings via the Coolbits interface. * Fixed a problem with hotkey switching on some recent mobile GPUs. * Worked around a power management regression in and improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
Download them here: x86 180.29x86_64 180.29To install simply run:Assuming youre running x86
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run
You can uninstall the previous version of the nvidia driver by running:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run uninstall
Note: I haven’t installed and tested this version yet
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My Ubuntu starts with the X server Gnome, uhm..I tried to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and install it but it said I was still running the Xserver (because I was) duh!. So I set the X config to chooser instead of Greeter. But it still, well now that i think about of coiurse, it went to the X server login. Questiosn is: how can I add an command line login to Ubuntu (in addition to my Gnome login) as a menu item using GRUB?
You can just log into run level 3.
If you’re logged into your machine, you can simply do:
sudo init 3
That would kill the X session and allow you to install, when you’re doing go back to runlvl 5 via
sudo init 5
Again when booting and at the grub screen just add a 3 to your boot line, and that will bring you directly to runlvl 3, or add another entry in menu.lst that has the 3 included.
Believe me or not, I am using Opensuse 11.1 right now, and either Nvidia from Nvidia repository, and 180.22 and this new 180.29 standalone installers gave me periodic X freezes. I am right now using version 180.17 (beta) and no more crashes.
At first I thought it was a problem with the whole Opensuse distro, and went back to my Mandriva 2008.1 install (I was testing Opensuse because of the better kde 3.5 setup), wich has never crashed, but after updating my Nvidia to 180.22 the truth has revealed, the culprit was the Nvidia X driver! After seeing the version of the Nvidia driver shipped with Mandriva (a beta!) was stable for me, I reinstalled Opensuse with this beta version and no more X freezes!
A side note, after testeing Kde 4.2 on Opensuse, I am not ever looking back to Kde 3.5 again!
Paul, log as root in terminal (using Ctrl-Alt-F1) and do “telinit 3″ (this will shut down your X), install your Nvidia binary, setup your X and do “telinit 5″ to restart your X.
@Flavio
Flavio,
What card do you have? I haven’t had any issues with 180.22 and 180.29 and my glxgears has increased since 17x.xx days on openSUSE 11.1 running KDE 3.5.10
@ ben.kevan
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nvidia driver 180.29 installation problem has been solved. here is the way out
http://samet.kilictas.com/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-18029-on-your-ubuntu/
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