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New ATI Video Driver Fixes GNOME 3 Issues

AMD announced two days ago, September 28th, the immediate availability for download of the AMD Catalyst 11.9 video driver for Linux platforms.  The new AMD Catalyst 11.9 driver fixes a few GNOME 3 issues, but most of them are still there. Moreover, it appears that many KDE SC 4.x users are having lots of problem...

30 September 2011
13:01 GMT

New Nvidia Linux Driver Brings Support for GNOME 3 and KDE SC 4

A few minutes ago, June 14th, Nvidia launched version 275.09.07 of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems, which brings improved support for the GNOME 3 desktop environment and KDE SC 4.6.The new Nvidia Display Driver 275.09.07 introduces support for new GPUs, such as GeForce GTX 560, Ge...

14 June 2011
13:01 GMT

New Nvidia Linux Driver Supports Ubuntu 11.04

On April 20th, Nvidia launched version 270.41.06 of its graphics driver, which brought initial support for Xorg Server 1.10 and support for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system.The new Nvidia Display Driver 270.41.06 introduces support for new GPUs, such as GeForce GT 520, GeForce GT 525M, GeFor...

21 April 2011
06:00 GMT

Nvidia and AMD Release New Video Drivers for Linux

Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the two major companies specialized in programmable graphics processor technologies, released a couple of days ago new and improved versions of their video drivers for Linux systems, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures.AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.12 was released on ...

15 December 2010
09:02 GMT

New ATI Linux Video Driver Has Support for OpenGL ES 2.0

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced last evening, August 25th, yet another improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. ATI Catalyst 10.8 introduces final and stable support for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ...

26 August 2010
02:34 GMT

ATI Catalyst 10.5 Comes with Support for SLED/SLES 11 SP1

The latest ATI graphics drivers are here to satisfy the needs of the Linux gamers out there. ATI Catalyst 10.5 comes with preliminary support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server 11 Service Pack 1. It also fixes quite a lot of Linux-specific issues and bugs. Other than that, it’s just a regular evolutio...

27 May 2010
10:58 GMT

New Nvidia Video Driver for Linux Supports X Server 1.8

Nvidia announced a few days ago, on its forum, a new version of its proprietary driver for the Nvidia graphics cards. Nvidia 195.36.24 adds support for new GPUs, and fixes a few issues. But the most important thing is that Nvidia 195.36.24 has support for X Server 1.8. Among the supported graphics cards in Nvidia 19...

27 April 2010
06:43 GMT

ATI Linux Video Driver 9.12 Released

Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, announced on December 17th a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary Display Driver for Linux users. The new ATI Catalyst 9.12 Display Driver is, as usual, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures and it updates the software to version 8.681. ATI Catalyst 9.12 also...

18 December 2009
05:45 GMT

Download Nvidia 190.53 Linux Display Driver

After a short development period, the Nvidia Corporation announced on December 16 a brand-new and improved version of its video driver for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris systems. The new Nvidia 190.53 graphics driver comes only with improvements and fixes, especially to VDPAU. Without further introduction, let'...

17 December 2009
14:08 GMT

Nvidia 190.42 Linux Display Driver Has Support for OpenGL 3.2

After quite a long development period, Nvidia finally decided to make Linux users happy again, by releasing a few minutes ago a brand-new and improved version of its graphics driver, Nvidia 190.42. As you see in the title, the big news is that Nvidia 190.42 now supports OpenGL 3.2. But, it also introduces support for...

27 October 2009
10:01 GMT

ATI Linux Video Driver 9.9 Has Support for openSUSE 11.1

Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, announced on September 9th a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary display driver for Linux users, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The ATI Catalyst 9.9 suite updates the software to version 8.65 and brings production support for openSUSE 11.1 and initial support ...

15 September 2009
06:28 GMT

ATI Linux Video Driver 9.8 Supports Ubuntu 9.04

Advanced Micro Devices announced last night (August 17th) a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary Linux display driver, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The ATI Catalyst 9.8 suite updates the software to version 8.64 and brings support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 and Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jac...

18 August 2009
13:34 GMT

ATI Linux Video Driver 9.7 Has Support for RedFlag DT 7.0

Advanced Micro Devices announced on July 23rd a new version of their popular ATI Catalyst proprietary Linux display driver, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. With version 9.7, the ATI Catalyst suite updates the software to version 8.632 and brings support for the RedFlag DT 7.0, a Chinese Linux distribution. Wit...

24 July 2009
05:11 GMT

New ATI Video Driver Fixes Ubuntu Issues

Advanced Micro Devices released yesterday, June 16th, a new version of their ATI proprietary video driver for Linux. With version 9.6, the ATI Catalyst driver updates the software to version 8.62. This release comes with several new features and also a lot of bugfixes. ATI Catalyst 9.6 brings production support for S...

17 June 2009
13:01 GMT

Available Now: Nvidia Linux Video Driver 180.60

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....

1 June 2009
11:01 GMT

ATI Video Driver for Linux Reaches Version 9.5

Advanced Micro Devices announced two days ago, on May 18th, a new version of their popular ATI Catalyst proprietary Linux display driver, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. With version 9.5, the ATI Catalyst driver updates the software to version 8.612. Unfortunately, this release doesn't bring any new featu...

20 May 2009
06:13 GMT

New Nvidia Video Drivers for Linux Bring Support for Newer Cards

Last evening, April 21st, Nvidia announced yet another maintenance version of their proprietary video driver for the Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris open-source operating systems. The new version, Nvidia 180.51, provides support for many new GPUs, such as: GeForce GT 130, GeForce GT 140, GeForce GTS 250, GeForce 9400 GT a...

22 April 2009
06:49 GMT

Latest ATI Linux Driver Introduces Support for Ubuntu 9.04

Yet another stable version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. With version 9.4, ATI Catalyst introduces early support for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 operating system and full support for the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. Users of the Rel...

18 April 2009
04:11 GMT

Latest ATI Linux Driver Introduces Support for Ubuntu 8.10

Yet another stable version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. With version 8.12, ATI Catalyst introduces early support for the Ubuntu 8.10 operating system, support SurroundView and support for ATI Stream Computing. Among other enhancements, we can noti...

11 December 2008
02:19 GMT

Nvidia 177.67 Beta Linux Display Driver Brings Support for New GPUs

Yesterday, Nvidia announced a new beta release of its Linux display driver, version 177.67, which brings support for GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 280 GPUs. Let's take a quick look now at the improvements and bug fixes that can be found in Nvidia 177.67 Beta:• The RENDER masks, RENDER repeating modes and trans...

20 August 2008
02:37 GMT

Latest ATI Linux Driver Introduces Support for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both the x86 and the x86_64 platform. ATI Catalyst 8.7 introduces support for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2. It also introduces early support for openSUSE 11 and Redflag DT 7.0. The following are some of the impo...

22 July 2008
02:30 GMT

Latest ATI Linux Driver Introduces Support for YUY2 and UYVY

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both the x86 and the x86_64 platform. ATI Catalyst 8.6 introduces support for YUY2 and UYVY pixel format, which will provide interleaved stream support for the MythTV and TVTime video playback programs. The following are some of the import...

19 June 2008
02:39 GMT

NVidia 173.14.05 Display Driver Brings Support for X.Org 1.5

NVidia decided to please the Linux world and launched another version of their graphics driver. The new display driver is version 173.14.05, which doesn't bring so many changes in comparison with the Beta releases.What does the NVidia 173.14.05 driver bring? It comes with support for GeForce 9800GTX, 9800GX2, 96...

29 May 2008
03:48 GMT

ATI Linux Driver 8.5 Available Now

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both the x86 and the x86_64 platform. In this release, the 3D ORCA page of the Catalyst Control Center has now the following new components: Catalyst A.I., Mipmap Detail and AA Filters. Moreover, the following issues were resolved in this ...

22 May 2008
02:45 GMT

Latest ATI Linux Driver Brings Support for Ubuntu 8.04

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release introduces early look support for Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy Heron. The following issues were resolved in this release:■ Selecting Wait for vertical retrace in the AMD Catalyst Control Center -...

17 April 2008
02:28 GMT

Nvidia Linux Display Driver 173.08 Beta Released

Nvidia, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, released a new beta of its Linux video driver, version 173.08, which introduces support for some GeForce 9800, 9600, 9500 and 8400 graphic cards, among other bugfixes and improvements. But we'd better take a closer look at the highligh...

12 April 2008
07:31 GMT

RadeonHD Video Driver 1.2.0 Released

RadeonHD video driver version 1.2.0 was announced last night on the X.org Foundation website. RadeonHD is also known as xf86-video-radeonhd and it's an X.org video driver for R500 and newer ATI graphics devices. It is being developed by Novell for AMD.The RadeonHD video driver supports full modesetting (read: an...

11 April 2008
02:40 GMT

New Nvidia Video Driver Brings GeForce 8 Improvements

Another month, another Nvidia driver... as last night Nvidia announced the release of yet another new and improved video driver for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris systems. In this version, we can notice some very nice improvements to GeForce 8 GPUs, a bugfix for those of you who play Counter-Strike under Wine and more.Th...

27 February 2008
02:44 GMT

Nvidia Linux Display Driver 169.09 Released

One month ago, Nvidia, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, released version 169.07 of their popular video driver, which introduced support for GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and GeForce 8800M graphic cards (among other bugfixes and improvements).Two days ago, they released a n...

23 January 2008
03:22 GMT

ATI Linux Display Driver 8.1 Released

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release includes support for new operating systems and also resolves the following issues:■ Corruption will no longer be noticed in the lower right corner of the display or on the mouse pointer af...

18 January 2008
10:14 GMT

Latest ATI Linux Driver Brings Support for openSUSE 10.3

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released two days ago, for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release includes support for openSUSE 10.3 and Red Flag DT 6.0 Linux distributions. Issues resolved in this release:■ A memory leak is no longer noticed when running OpenGL applications. ■...

21 December 2007
03:04 GMT

RadeonHD Video Driver 1.0.0 Released

RadeonHD video driver version 1.0.0 was announced today on the X.org Foundation website. Luc Verhagen, from Novel says: "We still have some open bugs which will require some further investigation. But no release will ever be perfect, and our early adopters are reporting far less issues already, so we feel that our dr...

30 November 2007
09:41 GMT

Latest ATI Linux Driver Brings Support for Ubuntu 7.10

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release is a bit special, as it includes support for Ubuntu 7.10. Moreover, starting with this version, the ATI Catalyst software suite does not support the Linux kernel 2.4, XFree86 4.3 software and work...

22 November 2007
02:51 GMT

NVIDIA 100.14.19 Linux Display Driver Released

Last night, Nvidia released a new version of its video driver for the Linux operating system. Besides the fact that this release contains support for some interesting GPUs, it also comes with improved GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap out-of-memory handling for every Linux customer that uses Compiz Fusion or Beryl on his/h...

19 September 2007
02:43 GMT


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