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New Nvidia Linux Driver Fixes GNOME Shell Issues

Earlier today, February 13th, Nvidia unleashed version 295.20 of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems. Nvidia 295.20 fixes lots of bugs to mention here, but a notable one is the "OpenGL applications hang" issue on GNOME Shell and KDE environments.The Nvidia Display Driver 295.20 also i...

13 February 2012
10:23 GMT

Windows 7 Blue and Black Screens for Graphics Driver Installs

Microsoft has informed customers running the latest iteration of its Windows client that, in specific scenarios, their laptops may crash when deploying graphics drivers. According to the Redmond company, issues have been reported involving the installation of a third-party driver in a hybrid graphics laptop running W...

26 April 2010
07:29 GMT

Latest Nvidia Linux Driver Brings Support for GeForce 8600 GS

On June 17, Nvidia launched version 173.14.09 of its graphics driver, which brought preliminary support for Linux kernel 2.6.26 and improved support for X.org server 1.5. Yesterday (July 30), Nvidia decided to make Linux users happy again, by releasing yet another bugfix version of its graphics driver, Nvidia 173.14....

31 July 2008
02:43 GMT

Catalyst 8.7 Drivers Bring 20% More Performance

The latest Catalyst drivers for the ATI Radeon graphics cards have been released by Advanced Micro Devices for both Windows and Linux. The company announced that the new drivers are capable of providing up to 20 percent better performance in the 3DMark Vantage benchmark and also up to 15 percent frame rate increase i...

22 July 2008
07:01 GMT

ATI Linux Display Driver 8.3 Released

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release introduces Xvideo extension for video scaling and color space conversion for Xpress 1200 series GPUs. The following issues were resolved in this release:■ On workstation hardware 3D applic...

6 March 2008
02:22 GMT

Open Source ATI 6.8.0 Driver Released

The open source ATI 6.8.0 driver was released yesterday, after a long time in the making. Some of the major improvements include Radeon support for r5xx, rs6xx and r6xx chips, using ATOMBIOS, the porting of mach64, r128 and radeon to libpciaccess and improved BIOS/driver interaction on Radeon.Here are some of the cha...

19 February 2008
04:37 GMT

ATI Linux Display Driver 8.2 Fixes Important X Server Bugs

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release fixes some important X server bugs, such as:■ The X server no longer crashes if the screen resolution is changed in horizontal or vertical desktop setup with a monitor that does not suppor...

14 February 2008
02:28 GMT


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