Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the two major companies specialized in programmable graphics processor technologies, released a couple of days ago new and improved versions of their video drivers for Linux systems, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures.AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.12 was released on December 13th and int... (read more)
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) proudly announced a few minutes ago, July 26th, another improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. ATI Catalyst 10.7 introduces final and stable support for the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, early support for the newly rel...
NVIDIA has released a new Linux display driver build, version , for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 Linux systems that utilize their graphics hardware (thanks Ant!). There are many, many changes, such as unofficial GLX support and several bugfixes. As always, hit the README for additional info. Download: [ nvidia.com ]
AMD has just announced the release of its newest graphics card drivers for Linux. ATI Catalyst 10.4 brings a number of fixes and also gets initial support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, due to be released later today. It’s available in package form for most of the popular commercial Linux distributions. The drivers are updated to version 8.723, in ATI Catalyst 10.4.
The latest nVidia Driver for Linux is available. Here I will show you how to install nVidia 256.35 display drivers in Ubuntu using PPA Repository.
A few minutes ago, June 14th, Nvidia launched version 275.09.07 of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems, which brings improved support for the GNOME 3 desktop environment and KDE SC 4.6.The new Nvidia Display Driver 275.09.07 introduces support for new GPUs, such as GeForce GTX 560, GeFor... (read more)
On April 10, Canonical published in a security notice details about an NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to run programs as an administrator.
It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled large ARGB cursors.
NVIDIA has released a new Linux display driver build, version 185.18.29, for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 Linux systems that utilize their graphics hardware. The changelog delineates the various bugfixes.
As always, hit the README for additional info.
Download: [ nvidia.com ]
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.3, which should ultimately remove some of the problems that occasionally caused system interruptions when writing to slow storage devices. Dozens of new and revised drivers improve the kernel's hardware support so there is progress in the open source drivers for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA graphics.