Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Nvidia, the two major companies specialized in programmable graphics processor technologies, released new and improved versions of their display drivers for Linux systems, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures.AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.11 was released on November 17th and introduces various f... (read more)
Nvidia has announced yesterday, August 13th, the immediate availability for download of the 304.37 version of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems. Nvidia 304.37 video driver has one of the largest changelogs I've seen in a while. Usually, video drivers come with just a few small updates and support for the n... (read more)
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.
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...
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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.
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.
Installing a driver on Linux used to be quite difficult, but in the past few years the process has become quite common. Here is a short tutorial on how to install the latest certified drivers from Nvidia, 310.19. After the launch of Steam for Linux, Nvidia has released two major driver versions, featuring a huge number of i... (read more)
Nvidia has just announced the release of their latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers, R310, and accidentally revealed the launch date of Steam for Linux, before Valve. According to Nvidia, the new drivers double the performance and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system.... (read more)