Nvidia Linux Display Driver version 169.07 was released yesterday. If you own a GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS 512 or 8800M graphics card, you should know that this driver offers support for them.

The highlists of this release are:

￭ Added CUDA driver to .run file.
￭ Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce 8 series GPUs.
￭ Fixed several X rendering issues.
￭ Fixed problems scrolling ARGB X drawables in Qt.
￭ Improved support for interlaced DVI, HDMI, and HDTV modesetting.
￭ Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 8 series GPUs.
￭ Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs multi-core/SMP systems.
￭ Improved hotkey switching support for some Lenovo notebooks.
￭ Fixed a problem with Compiz after VT-switching.
￭ Improved RENDER performance.
￭ Improved interaction with Barco and Chi Mei 56" DFPs, as well as with some Gateway 19" DFPs.
￭ Added an interface to monitor PowerMizer state information.
￭ Fixed rendering corruption in Maya's Graph Editor.
￭ Improved interaction between SLI AFR and swap groups on certain Quadro FX GPUs.
￭ Fixed a bug that caused corruption with redirected XV on GPUs without TurboCache support.
￭ Improved display device detection on GeForce 8 series GPUs.
￭ Improved usability of NVIDIA-settings at lower resolutions like 1024x768 and 800x600.
￭ Improved GLX visual consolidation when using Xinerama with Quadro/GeForce 8 series and older GPUs.
￭ Added experimental support for running the X server at Depth 30 (10 bits per component) on Quadro G8x and later GPUs.
￭ Worked around a Linux kernel/toolchain bug that caused soft lockup errors when suspending on some Intel systems.

Nvidia really made some Linux users happy with this driver - a true Christmas present - which will let them fully enjoy their video cards capabilities.

You can download the latest Nvidia video driver for Linux operating systems for x86 architecture and AMD64/EM64T from Softpedia.