Nvidia 346.59 is now available for all Linux OSes

Apr 7, 2015 21:01 GMT  ·  By

Nvidia had the pleasure of publishing today, April 6, an update to its Long Lived Branch of the Nvidia video driver for GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris operating systems, version 346.59.

Nvidia 346.59 is now the latest stable and long-term supported version of the proprietary video drivers for Nvidia GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). It replaces Nvidia 346.47 video driver.

The new version introduces support for no more than nine new graphics cards, including Quadro K1200, Quadro M6000, GeForce 920M, GeForce 930A, GeForce 930M, GeForce 940M, GeForce GTX 950M, GeForce GTX 960M, and GeForce GTX TITAN X.

Four bugs have been repaired, including a kernel memory leak

Nvidia 346.59 also fixes four bugs that have been discovered since the previous release of the driver, including a kernel memory leak on Maxell-based GPUs, which occurred when looping hardware-accelerated video decoding with (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) VDPAU.

A bug that affected several SLI Mosaic configurations by artificially limiting the maximum pixel clock on displays has been fixed, as well as a bug that made framebuffer depth attachments to be cleared using the glClearTexImage() function, causing texture corruption.

Last but not least, Nvidia 346.59 fixes a bug that affected various applications that use transform feedback when display modes were switched, causing corruption. In addition, a bug in the nvidia-settings tool that crashed the application when it was closed on 32-bit Linux systems has been fixed.

How to get the latest Nvidia 346.59 video driver on your Linux box

Arch Linux users are the luckiest ones, as the newly released Nvidia 346.59 proprietary video driver is already available in the main software repositories of their distributions.

Users of other GNU/Linux distributions can download the binary Nvidia 346.59 video driver right now from Softpedia and install it manually (detailed installation instructions are provided on the download page).

Nvidia 346.59 is also available for 32-bit ARM architectures on Linux, as well as for 64 and 32-bit architectures on the FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems.