Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Last night NVIDIA quietly uploaded a new Linux display driver to their FTP server. This new driver is tagged 171.05, while the latest public driver has been 169.09. Having already three releases in the 169.xx series, this is a moderate update to 171.xx, but according to NVIDIA ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
NVIDIA has released a new Linux display driver, which is a stable version of their previous 169.04 beta last month. In addition, the new NVIDIA 169.07 Linux driver has a few changes, while most of the release highlights were already found in the 169.04 release. We are preparing additional Linux ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Part 2 deals with installation of ATi drivers and visually enhancing that ubuntu
First of the Ati drivers
Ati have released catalyst 7.11 for Linux. Download this from their website. Next login as root in ubuntu. Then double click the downloaded file. You will get different options here choose to run the ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Phoronix reports that NVIDIA's 169.04 driver brings out a lot of improvements over its predecessor. This X.Org driver contained a number of GeForce 8 fixes, initial support for the GeForce 8800GT graphics card, monitoring of PowerMizer state information, and other changes.
What Phoronix had not tested, however, at that time was ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
NVIDIA has released new BETA drivers for x86 and x64 (AMD64/EM64T). This new driver is now off of their latest 169 code line and will possibly net some performance benefit on top of the long release highlights list:
Added support for GeForce 8800 GT.
Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce 8 series ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Hakan Bayindir at Phoronix writes about ATI's new drivers, their performance(Non-performance, should I say ?).
It's been nearly seven months since I wrote my first article about ATI drivers and how they literally crippled my computer and my daily life. Last month, ATI had finally released their latest drivers ...
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