NVIDIA Releases Optimus Linux Driver With New Features

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 9, 2013 @11:40AM from the baby-steps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nearly one year after Linux creator Linux Torvalds publicly bashed NVIDIA and several years after their multi-GPU mobile technology premiered, the graphics vendor has finally delivered an Optimus-supported Linux driver. NVIDIA released the 319.12 Beta Linux driver that brings support for 'RandR 1.4 GPU provider objects' that basically allows for Optimus-like functionality when using the latest X Server, Linux kernel, and XRandR. The 319.12 beta also has many other features including better UEFI support, installer improvements, new pages on their settings panel, and new GPU support."

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Re:nVidia have been jerking Linux around by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-09 13:13 · Score: -1, Troll

nVidia is still the worst company regarding linux support. I have phisical pain because I can't connect an external montitor to my linux labtop. They are fucking morrons who obviously can't program a driver. FUCK U NVIDIA! Linus is right that they are a lot worse than AMD. At least they could have the dignity to support the nouveau driver. FUCK U NVIDIA. At least Ubuntu 13.04 and probably fedorda 19 won't support the latest latops that have an current nvidia chip. And thanks to optimus you can't connect an externeal monitor. FUCK U NVIDIA!