nVidia Linux Display Driver is the OpenGL nVidia support for graphic cards on Linux operating systems.

Installation:

Type "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.67-pkg1.run" to install the driver. NVIDIA now provides a utility to assist you with configuration of your X config file.

What's New in This Release:

· Added support for the following new GPUs:

· GeForce GTX 260
· GeForce GTX 280

· Improved support for RENDER masks, as well as RENDER repeating modes and transformations, for video memory pixmaps.
· Added accelerated support for RENDER convolution filters for video memory pixmaps on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs.
· Added an 'AllowSHMPixmaps' X configuration option, which can be used to prevent applications from using shared memory pixmaps; the latter may cause some optimizations in the NVIDIA X driver to be disabled.
· Added support for DisplayPort display devices (including 30-bit devices).
· Resolved various stability problems on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs, as well as some GeForce 6 and 7 PCI-E GPUs.
· Fixed a bug that resulted in GPU errors when changing the TwinView display configuration while using Compiz.
· Further improved the error recovery paths taken in case of GPU command stream corruption.
· Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect fake Xinerama information to be reported after enabling a second TwinView display.
· Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC implementation.
· Fixed a problem that could result in IRQs being disabled on some multi-GPU SMP configurations.
· Worked around cache flushing problems (on some Linux kernels) that caused corruption and stability problems.
· Added experimental support for PCI-E MSI.
· Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.