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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 an...

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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