Nvidia has announced today, June 1st, the immediate availability of another maintenance release for their proprietary video driver for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems. The new 180.60 display driver comes with improved stability for GeForce 6200, 7200 and 7300 cards running on SMP and multi-core machines. Several other fixes are also part of this new release:

· The VGA console restoration was repaired on several notebook GPUs;
· Removed the bug that caused Kernel crashes when trying to initialize NvAGP on x86-64 Linux kernels created with the CONFIG_GART_IOMMU option;
· Repaired an issue that disabled some performance levels on several GeForce 9 powered notebooks;
· Repaired an OpenGL driver crash that occurred when running Bibble 5.

How to install the Nvidia video drivers on your Linux box?

Log out of your current session and hit the CTRL+ALT+F1 key combination in order to enter a text-mode session. Log in as root (System Administrator), go to the folder where you've downloaded the Nvidia driver installer for your architecture (see below for links), and type the following corresponding command.

For 32-bit users:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.60-pkg1.run

For 64-bit users:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.60-pkg2.run

Then, follow the on-screen instructions to install the Nvidia video driver. Please note that the Linux kernel headers and a GCC compiler will be required to complete the installation!

Download the Nvidia Linux display driver 180.60 for the x86 architecture right now from Softpedia.

Download the Nvidia Linux display driver 180.60 for the AMD64/EM64T architectures right now from Softpedia.

Download the Nvidia FreeBSD display driver 180.60 for the x86 architectures right now from Softpedia.

Download the Nvidia Solaris display driver 180.60 for the x86 architecture right now from Softpedia.