Download Driver For nVidia Linux Display Driver 1.0-8756

nVidia has released a new set of Linux display drivers with version number 1.0-8756 that are suitable for both the IA32– if it AMD64/EM64T-platform. Before you can use these drivers, you must first agree to the nVidia Software License, although that won’t be a problem for most people. A lot of new features have been added in this release, such as OpenGL support for the Composite X extension, hardware acceleration for the Render X extension, GLX 1.4 and improved power management and suspend-to-disk for Kernel 2.6.14 and above. The full changelog looks like this:

Release Highlights

• Adds support for GeForce 7300, GeForce 7400 Go, GeForce 7600 and GeForce 7900 GPUs.
• Added support for running OpenGL applications while the Composite X extension is enabled; see “The X Composite Extension” appendix for details.
• Enabled hardware acceleration of the Render X extension by default.
• Added “AddARGBGLXVisuals” X configuration option, so that OpenGL applications can render to X Windows’ alpha channel.
• Added Linux/i2c support to the NVIDIA kernel module; see the “i2c Bus Support” appendix for details.
• Improved power management support with Linux >= 2.6.14 and added support for suspend-to-disk.
• Added new “nvidia-auto-select” mode entry for use in the X configuration file; see description in the “Programming Modes” appendix.
• Added support for GLX 1.4.
• Added ability for OpenGL applications to span greater than 4096 pixels when in Xinerama.
• Improved G-Sync support.
• Fixed interlaced modes on CRTs.
• Improved compatibility with the latest Linux 2.6 kernels.

Support for the GeForce 7900 GTX has been added in this release.