Release Highlights:
- Fixed an X server hang rendering very large fonts.
- Added a check to nvidia-installer to not consider Compiz's libglx.so a conflicting X extension library.
- VDPAU updates:
- Relaxed restrictions on the number of H.264 references frames.
- Fixed corruption problems in some video bitstreams.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the presentation queue from working in some multi-display or multi-screen configurations when using overlay based presentation.
The
180.18 NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver Set for
Linux/x86 is available for download via
FTP.
The
180.18 NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver Set for
Linux/x86-64 is available for download via
FTP.
Please see the
README (
x86,
x86-64) for more information about this release.
Please note: This NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release supports
GeForce 6xxx and newer NVIDIA GPUs, GeForce4 and older GPUs are supported through the
96.43.xx and
71.86.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers. GeForce FX GPUs are supported through the
173.14.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.
Please also note: If you encounter any problems with the
180.18 NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release, please start a new thread and include a detailed description of the problem, reproduction steps and generate/attach an
nvidia-bug-report.log file (please see
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678 for details).