14 DAY TRIAL // Nvidia today released a new long-lived stable graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems, versioned 375.66, which adds support for some recently released GPUs and numerous improvements.
Among the newly supported graphics cards by the Nvidia 375.66 video driver, which is here to replace the Nvidia 375.26 driver that probably many of you are currently using on your distros, we can mention Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Nvidia Quadro P3000, Nvidia Quadro M520, and Nvidia TITAN Xp for VR gaming.
Please note that the Solaris driver only adds support for the Nvidia Quadro P3000 and Nvidia Quadro M520 GPUs. Continuing with the changes, the Nvidia 375.66 driver appears to restore support for the Nvidia GRID K520 high-end professional graphics card and makes the installation of the nvidia-drm kernel module optional.
"The new '--no-drm' option can be used to prevent nvidia-installer from building and installing nvidia-drm, on systems where this kernel module fails to build and/or load," explained the Nvidia developers working on the Linux and UNIX graphics drivers in today's release notes.
Bug fixes, lots of bug fixes
Also updated in the Nvidia 375.26 graphics driver is the display configuration page in the nvidia-settings control panel, which now accurately reflects all HDMI 3D refresh rates. Of course, lots of regressions and issues discovered or reported by users from the previous release of the driver have been addressed.
Many of these bug fixes are here to improve PRIME Sync support, but also things like VT switching between multiple X servers, DisplayPort support, suspend and hibernate on some systems, backlight brightness on some notebooks with DisplayPort internal panels, HDMI and DisplayPort audio, as well as window border shadows in Unity.
We've attached the full changelog below for your reading please, and you can download the Nvidia 375.66 graphics drivers for 64-bit, 32-bit, and 32-bit ARM GNU/Linux systems, as well as for FreeBSD and Solaris platforms right now from our website. We recommend updating to this version as soon as possible.