Download Driver For nVidia Linux Display Driver 1.0-7167

On the nVidia website, a new version of the Linux Display Drivers is announced with 1.0-7167 as the version number. This driver is suitable for IA32 platform and AMD64 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. The included changelog shows us the following changes:

• Support for GeForce 6200 with TurboCache GPUs
• Improved OpenGL workstation performance.
• Added support for XRandR rotation; see Appendix W in the text README.
• Added ExactModeTimingsDVI X config option to give explicit control over the mode timings used on Flat Panels.
• Added Xorg dll loader support.
• Changed driver behavior such that PAT (Page Attribute Table) is used where possible instead of MTRRs.
• Added a workaround for an X server bug with PCI-E GeForce 6800 and GeForce 6600; a fix has been provided to XFree86 and XOrg.
• Fixed stability problems on x86_64 PCI-E systems.
• Fixed 2D rendering corruption on certain older GPUs.
• Improved compatibility with Linux 2.6 kernels.
• Fixed compatibility problems with some SWIOTLB em64t systems.
• Fixed a bug that triggered error messages of the form: “ioctl32(doom.x86:6747): Unknown cmd fd(16) cmd(c0384642)” rel=”external”>00 arg(ffffc75c) on /dev/nvidiactl”
• Fixed NvAGP incompatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
• Improved interaction with the udev filesystem.
• Improved performance of PCI cards on Linux 2.6 systems.
• Documented change_page_attr problems with x86_64 2.6 kernels; please see the known issue “The X86-64 platform (AMD64/EM64T) and 2.6 kernels” in the text README
• IA32: Updated documentation. Please see the text README file.
• AMD64: Updated documentation. Please see the text README file.

[break]The following two flavors are ready to be brought in:
nVidia Linux Display Driver 1.0-7167 – IA32
nVidia Linux Display Driver 1.0-7167 – AMD64