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NVIDIA Releases New Linux Drivers

Posted by timothy on from the proprietary dept.

mlmitton writes "NVIDIA just released new Linux drivers (1.0-5328). But the early reports by users are less than encouraging. People are weighing in with mostly bad news about how well these new drivers work. Some people are finding that Neverwinter Nights doesn't work and they're reverting to the old drivers (4496). I spent a few long hours recently trying to get the old drivers to work with Fedora Core 1 so I'm going to hold off on these new ones."

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  1. Yay! by Saville · · Score: 5, Interesting

    GNU/Linux gets dynamic shader compilers!
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_9292.h tml

    Do these drivers export all the same extensions as their windows counter parts?

  2. what about sleep? by ejaw5 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Judging from the Drivers page and README, it seems they haven't yet addressed the problem of the computer not able to go into sleep/suspend while the driver is loaded. A bit of a nuicance for notebook users...

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    $cat /dev/random > Sig