New nvidia official driver for Linux stable 270.41.19 and beta 275.09 has come out for few days.
270.41.19 improved:
- Fixed a bug in the VDPAU presentation queue that could cause 1 second hangs when transitioning from blit-based display to overlay- based display. This would most commonly happen when disabling a compositing manager.
- Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when capturing SDI video.
- Fixed a corner-case in which the OpenGL driver could leak resources in applications utilizing fork().
- Addressed a Linux kernel interface compatibility problem that could lead to ioremap() errors and, potentially, functional and/or stability problems.
- Fixed a bug that caused SLI initialization to fail on some Intel based systems.
- Fixed a bug that caused SLI initialization to fail when using recent Linux kernels, such as 2.6.38.
It has been added into X Updates PPA for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric. You can use following commands in terminal to install this stable version in Natty and Oneiric:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
If you’re running Ubuntu 10.10 or older or you want to test 275.09 beta version, download packages from official site:
270.41.19 stable:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/270.41.19/
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/270.41.19/
275.09 beta:
Deep blue Reply:
July 29th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I don’t recommend trying to install this. I got the same problem as “Dileep” above – screwed up everything and finally I had to reinstall natty 11.04. It seems like it’s not safe to uninstall – I couldn’t get back to using my old system. I think something is wrong, although I would be happy if somebody proved me wrong so I can install the new nvidia driver myself.
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