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Thread ID: 40905 2003-12-23 07:20:00 News: nVidia releases new display driver for Linux IA32 Jen C (20) Press F1
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202471 2003-12-23 07:20:00 For all those Linux users with nVidia cards :)

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Linux Display Driver - IA32

Version: 1.0-5328
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: December 22, 2003

Release Highlights

* Supports latest GeForce FX and Quadro FX GPUs
* Added support for UBB and FSAA Stereo.
* Improved GLXPixamp support.
* Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.
* Added support for GLX_SGI_swap_control.
* Reduced CPU usage when OpenGL applications are syncing to vblank.

Download here (www.nvidia.com)

Slashdot (slashdot.org) comments on the new drivers.
Jen C (20)
202472 2003-12-23 09:31:00 Thanks Jen,

Took me a while to get the drivers to work in Fedora, but I got through it, now it looks like it's time to update the drivers.

Have had a few noticable problems, but hopefully these drivers will fix that problem.
Kame (312)
202473 2003-12-23 09:39:00 I had a bit of a battle with Fedora and the previous nVidia driver due to compiler differences between the kernel and the drivers. But I won, and they did work fine for me after that :)

I have already installed the latest drivers now, I just dropped into runlevel 3 and ran the nvidia-installer --update which automatically downloaded and installed the new 1.0-5328 drivers. They installed OK with only a few error messages about not being able to write to the message log (or something along those lines), and I was able to load X straight afterwards without any problems.
Jen C (20)
202474 2003-12-23 10:45:00 > just dropped into runlevel 3 and ....

You mean people dont use that as their Default????

;-)

Thanks Jen, I'll get them later tonight :-)
Chilling_Silently (228)
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