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

Installation:

Type "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg1.run" to install the driver. NVIDIA now provides a utility to assist you with configuration of your X config file.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Added support for the following GPU:

· Tesla X2090

· Fixed a bug that caused black areas to appear on the back faces of some models in Maya.
· Fixed a bug that resulted in the printing of spurious loader error messages.
· Fixed a bug that could cause X to crash after hotplugging displays.
· Fixed a bug which caused face selections to be misrendered in Maya when using the paint selection tool.
· Improved performance for interactive tools in Mudbox.
· Added a "--no-opengl-files" option to nvidia-installer to allow installation of the driver without OpenGL files that might conflict with already installed OpenGL implementations.
· Split the DFP configuration page in nvidia-settings into multiple tabs, allowing the controls to be displayed on smaller screens.
· Fixed a bug that could cause some OpenGL applications (including desktop environments like KDE and GNOME Shell) to hang.
· Fixed a bug that prevented the internal panel from working on some laptops with GeForce 7 series GPUs.
· Fixed an OpenGL bug where using display lists on Fermi-based GPUs could result in missing rendering in some cases.
· Fixed an OpenGL bug that caused incorrect rendering when using framebuffer objects to render to 16-bit color textures with alpha.
· Fixed two bugs that caused sporadic application crashes in some multi-threaded OpenGL applications.
· Fixed a bug that caused creating OpenGL 4.2 contexts with glXCreateContextAttribsARB to fail.
· Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL to print

· Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0". when used with a non-NVIDIA implementation of the GLX X extension.

· Implemented color depth 30 (10 bits per component) support for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.
· Implemented support for constraining cursors to the visible regions of connected displays; see the "ConstrainCursor" X Option in the README for details.