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Yesterday, Nvidia announced a new beta release of its Linux display driver, version 177.67, which brings support for GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 280 GPUs. Let’s take a quick look now at the improvements and bug fixes that can be found in Nvidia 177.67 Beta:

• The RENDER masks, RENDER repeating modes and transformations, for video memory pixmaps, were greatly improved;
• GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs (video memory pixmaps) received accelerated support for the RENDER convolution filter;
• A new option in the xorg.conf was added, AllowSHMPixmaps. The new function can be used to prevent different programs from using shared memory pixmaps;
• DisplayPort display devices support was added;
• A workaround was found for the cache flushing problems, which caused stability and corruption issues;
• PCI-E MSI experimental support was added;
• GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9 and GTX stability issues were resolved;
• The TwinView display configuration bug that caused GPU errors, when using Compiz, was fixed;
• Fixed the GPU command stream corruption issues;
• The ‘incorrect fake Xinerama information’ workaround was removed;
• Better compatibility with the Linux kernel 2.6.x.

How to install?

Log out of your current session and hit the CTRL+ALT+F1 key combination in order to enter a text mode session. Log in as root (System Administrator), go to the folder where you’ve downloaded the Nvidia driver installer (see below for links) and type:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.67-pkg1.run or sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.67-pkg2.run, depending on your architecture.

Then, follow the on-screen instructions to install the video driver.

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