nVidia released the most updated OpenGL3.0180.27 driver(Non-Open Source) yesterday,The NVIDIA 180.27 x86/x86_64 display driver for Linux brings OpenGL 3.0 support for the GeForce 8 series and later.

This guide is based on Ubuntu,but it can be a reference for other Linux distributions as well.

Normally, once you have sussccessfully installed NVDIA displayer driver,then you should see the NVIDIA logo when booting the computer. If you don't like it,you can cancel this logo.

Apparently,NVIDIA is more and more pay much attention to linux field,the NVIDA linux display driver often been updated .It is good news for our linux fans,right?'course we may run more and more game in linux smoothly like in M$ windows.

If you found the official NVIDIA display driver which you downloaded and installed doesn’t work or work not perfectly,you may try my tips to re-install it:

Nvidia released its new display driver 171.05 on 30 Jan.One of my friend has installed this new driver ,he said it works.

Release Highlights

• Added support for new GPUs:
  • Quadro FX 290
  • Quadro FX 370
  • Quadro FX 570
  • Quadro FX 1700