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NVIDIA 190.42 Driver Released

Tue, Oct 27 2009
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Here are some highlights from the latest release for Linux:
Release Highlights:
Added support for OpenGL 3.2.
Updated the NVIDIA X driver to allow, on GeForce 8 or greater GPUs, more modes to validate on digital display devices whose EDIDs report very constrained HorizSync or VertRefresh ranges.
Fixed a randomly occurring X server crash caused by the PixmapCache option.
Increased the allowed amount of overscan compensation from 100 to 200.
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NVIDIA Linux Driver 180.29 Released

Fri, Feb 13 2009
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Here are the highlights of the latest NVIDIA Driver released for Linux:

Version: 180.29
Operating System: Linux x86
Release Date: February 11, 2009

Release Highlights

* Added support for the following GPUs:
o GeForce 9300 GE
o Quadro NVS 420
* Added support for [ continue reading... ]

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NVIDIA 180.22 Linux Drivers Released

Fri, Jan 9 2009
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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.
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Installing NVIDIA Drivers on openSUSE 11.0 & other Linux Distrubutions

Sat, Jun 7 2008
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You listened to many Graphics Card critics and went with an NVIDIA card for your Linux box. But just slapping the card in your machine or installing openSUSE 11.0 will not get you to fully utilize your card. Why? By default most distributions will setup your card using the nv driver which is included in the Xorg installation. So we need to download and install [ continue reading... ]

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