171.06 (beta) for Linux x86/x86-64 released

[AaronP]

Release Highlights:

• Added support for GeForce 9600 GT.

The 171.06 NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver Set for Linux/x86 is available for download via HTTP. The 171.06 NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver Set for Linux/x86-64 is available for download via HTTP.

Please see the README (x86, x86-64) for more information about this release.

Please note: This NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release supports GeForceFX and newer NVIDIA GPUs, GeForce4 and older GPUs are supported through the 96.43.xx and 71.86.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.

Please also note: If you encounter any problems with the 171.06 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).

Note: This release has experimental support for a glyph cache on the GeForce 8 and 9 series that may improve anti-aliased font rendering performance. Enable with nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1.