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Nvidia releases 100.14.19 with proper X.Org 7.3 support
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2007-09-19 14:11
Well, Linux team at Nvidia certainly know their job, because they released new version of Nvidia Linux display driver 100.14.19 not long after X.Org 7.3 started showing up in popular Linux distribution. It even looks like they actually waited for X.Org to release 7.3 first, so they could sync with it pretty fast. I can only agree with such strategy. :) The new drivers come with all sorts of fixes and improvements and I can't wait to test it on my desktop.
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Running Nvidia display drivers with X.Org 7.3
Submitted by linportal on Mon, 2007-09-17 20:17This morning, hardworking Debian developers pushed the remaining pieces of the brand new X.Org 7.3 to Debian sid (unstable) distribution. And it must be said, a well done job!
ii x11-apps 7.3+1 X applications
ii x11-common 1:7.3+2 X Window System (X.Org)
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.3+1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.3+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.3+1 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+1 X server utilities
ii xbase-clients 1:7.3+2 miscellaneous X clients - metapackage
ii xorg 1:7.3+2 X.Org X Window System
ii xorg-dev 1:7.3+2 the X.Org X Window System development
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+2 the X.Org X server
ii xutils 1:7.3+2 X Window System utility programs
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AMD Details Strategic Open Source Graphics Driver Development Initiative
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2007-09-08 12:35
Sunnyvale, Calif - September 7, 2007 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a major strategic initiative to support the Open Source development community for ATI Radeon™ graphics processors. The week of September 10th, AMD plans to provide an open source information and development package supporting the ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 series as well as ATI Radeon™ X1000 series of graphics processing units (GPU) on Linux desktops. To accelerate this initiative, AMD partnered with Novell's SuSE Linux engineering team.
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Nvidia Linux driver 1.0-9639, 1.0-7185 and Linux kernel 2.6.23
Submitted by Gingioerge on Mon, 2007-09-03 10:54Referencing the post Nvidia Linux driver 100.14.11 and Linux kernel 2.6.23. Here I have reported the patches for older versions of Nvidia drivers. The procedure to follow is the same described in the above document.
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Nvidia Linux driver 100.14.11 and Linux kernel 2.6.23
Submitted by linportal on Mon, 2007-08-06 00:54Well, they're not working together. Unless you're not willing to tweak it a little bit. So, out of the box, you won't be able to test brand new Linux CFS scheduler, merged in the 2.6.23-rc1 release, if you drive your Nvidia card with the proprietary driver. I guess that's what we get for running binary drivers.
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Your ATI Radeon very slow on Xorg X server 1.3?
Submitted by linportal on Sun, 2007-07-22 04:42This one has bothered me for a long time. The solution is, of course, simple. But, I still don't understand why was it necessary to force users to search so hard for this piece of information, where all the older X server releases worked OK out of the box?
If you find that after upgrading to X.Org 7.3 your display becomes very slow, and you own ATI Radeon, all you need to do is to put this line in the Device section of your xorg.conf:
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Preliminary opensource driver for the ATI R500-based cards
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2007-06-12 23:51
Jerome Glisse announced today that a small team of X.Org developers has managed to provide the initial support for ATI R500-based cards (ATI Radeon X1300 up to X1600 at the time) by reverse engineering. The released code is definitely not yet ready for the normal users, but it's the big step ahead nevertheless. Especially having in mind how ATI (now owned by AMD) has not provided specifications of their hardware to the open source community. Jerome writes:
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NVIDIA Linux Display Driver Release 100.14.09
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2007-06-09 22:50
Release Highlights
- Adds support for new GPUs: GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8600 GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GS, GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8400 GS, GeForce 8400M GT, GeForce 8400M GS, GeForce 8400M G, GeForce 8300 GS, Quadro FX 1600M, Quadro FX 570M, Quadro FX 360M, Quadro NVS 320M, Quadro NVS 140M, Quadro NVS 135M, Quadro NVS 130M.
- Adds support for Quadro FX 4600 G-Sync and Quadro FX 5600 G-Sync boards.
- Improved notebook GPU support.
- Improved RenderAccel support for subpixel antialiased fonts.
- Added XV brightness and contrast controls for GeForce 8 GPUs.
- Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
- Fixed a locale-interaction issue in the nvidia-settings configuration file parser.
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ATI Display Driver 8.29.6
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-09-21 00:53
ATI Linux display driver (fglrx) version 8.29.6 is out.
New Features
The ATI Proprietary Linux software driver introduces Linux Kernel 2.6.18 support.
Resolved Issues
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver. These include:
- Unreal Tournament 2004: Using the in-game options to change the desktop display resolution no longer results in the display failing to refresh properly when exiting the game.
- SpecViewPerf: Running the sub-test UGS-04 no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.
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NVIDIA Driver Release 1.0-8774
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-08-25 16:25
New version of NVIDIA's display driver for Linux (and FreeBSD) was released yesterday.
Release Highlights
- Added support for X.Org 7.1.
- Added support for XVideo with the Composite X extension when using X.Org 7.1.
- Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
You can download it here.
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ATI Display Driver 8.28.8
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-08-19 13:13
ATI has released version 8.28.8 of its fglrx Linux display driver, part of the ATI CATALYST suite.
New Features
This section provides information on new features introduced in the latest release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver.
Display Switching Support for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Products
This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver provides Display Switching support for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad products containing a supported ATI Radeon® Mobility™ product. This feature allows users to use the hotkey function Fn+F7 to toggle between display devices connected to the laptop.
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ATI Display Driver 8.27.10
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-07-29 00:32
Today, ATI has released new version 8.27.10 of its fglrx Linux display driver, part of the ATI CATALYST suite.
New Features
This section provides information on new features introduced in the latest release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver.
X.org 7.1 Support
This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver introduces support for X.org 7.1 X Server via the ATI Driver Installer as well as via packages for supported distributions that utilize X.org 7.1.
Fedora Core Package Support
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ATI Display Driver 8.26.18
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-06-26 23:00
ATI has released version 8.26.18 of its fglrx Linux display driver, part of the ATI CATALYST suite.
New Features
This section provides information on new features introduced in the latest release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver.
Hotplug Support for Digital Flat Panels
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ATI Display Driver 8.25.18
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-05-26 17:00
Today ATI released its 8.25.18 fglrx Linux display driver, part of the ATI CATALYST suite, two weeks later than its usual release time-frame.
New Product Support
This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver introduces support for the following ATI products:
NVIDIA Driver Release 1.0-8762
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-05-24 23:18
NVIDIA has just released a new driver, version 1.0-8762. This one looks to be pretty stable as it fixes some important bugs and adds new card support.
Release highlights
- Added support for QuadroFX 4500 X2, Quadro FX 5500, Quadro FX 3500, and Quadro FX 1500.
- Improved Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI support.
- Fixed video memory reporting with GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache.
- Fixed a problem with Overlay support when in TwinView.
- Fixed problems starting X with SLI Frame Rendering on nForce4 SLI Intel Edition.
- Fixed multiple issues with combinations of Stereo, SLI, FrameRendering and G-Sync.
- Fixed several issues with mode selection for CRTs and DFPs.
- Fixed a corruption problem with Rotation and large desktops on older GPUs, including GeForce4 MX.
- Fixed a system crash starting X with TwinView on certain GPUs.
- Addressed an NV-CONTROL compatibility issue; please see the Known Issues section of the README for details.
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