NVIDIA Adds PureVideo support to its Linux Drivers
NVIDIA released their new set of beta drivers yesterday, with a version 180.04. While going through the release notes, I found this line very interesting.
Added initial support for PureVideo-like features on Linux via the new VDPAU AP.
Now I don’t know what exactly they mean by “initial support” but nonetheless its a pretty good that [...]
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[How to] Tackling Screen Resolution Problems in Linux
Many of us may feel screen resolution as the biggest pest in any OS. If we don’t get the screen resolution we want we get real fed up with the UI (dont we?). Personally, I very much hate if screen resolution gets screwed up and also have faced a lot of problems on that.
So I [...]
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NVIDIA Quietly Releases 171.05 Drivers
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 it’s not for everyone. There [...]
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NVIDIA 169.07 Drivers
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 tests with this new driver, [...]
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Compiz Fusion on openSUSE 10.3 and nVidia cards
In my previous post, I’d explained on how to install Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu Fiesty. This post will outline the simple steps for installing Compiz Fusion on openSUSE 10.3. This article is written from an nVidia user’s point of view.
First, you’ll have to download nVidia’s drivers. You can get it, via the 1-click install(for Legacy [...]
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NVIDIA 169.04 Driver Brings Improvements
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 a performance comparison of the [...]
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NVIDIA 169.04 (beta) Drivers for Linux
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 GPUs.
Fixed stability problems with some [...]
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