Tag Archives: Driver

NVIDIA Linux Driver Vulnerability Exploits Root Privileges!

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Gaming On Linux, News, Software

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According to NVIDIA there is a major vulnerability in their UNIX/Linux driver that every Linux user should be aware of. Especially now, that most of us play Steam games using proprietary drivers, this is quite dangerous and you should pay … Continue reading

Nvidia 302.17 has been released! Install in Ubuntu12.04, LinuxMint13, Fedora17

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Hardware Linux, Linux tutorials, Releases

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Few days ago was released Nvidia 302.17, the new release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fixes, some of the new added features we find a new option, –restore-original-backup, to nvidia-xconfig. nvidia-xconfig creates a backup of the original … Continue reading

Nvidia driver 295.59 released! Install in Ubuntu 12.04, LinuxMint13, Fedora17, Arch, Debian

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in News, Releases, Software

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Announced today the release of Nvidia  295.59,  the new release added suppport to the following GPUs:  NVS 5400M, NVS 310, GeForce GT 620M, GeForce GT 640M, GeForce GT 640M LE, GeForce GT 650M, GeForce GTX 660M,   GeForce GTX 670M, GeForce … Continue reading

Nvidia 295.49 has been released!

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux tutorials, News, Ubuntu

Nvidia 295.49 driver has been released! The new release added support  for GeForce GTX 690, Fixed a problem where starting, stopping, and moving OpenGL application windows was very slow on Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600, GeForce 8800 GTX, GeForce 8800 GTS, … Continue reading

Nvidia 295.40 is available! Install in Ubuntu11.10/12.04, LinuxMint via PPA

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Fedora, Linux Mint, Software, Ubuntu

Few days ago was released the new Nvidia driver 295.40, the new release added support for the following GPUs: GeForce GT 635M and  GeForce 610M ,closed a security vulnerability which made it possible for attackers to reconfigure GPUs to gain … Continue reading

NVIDIA 256.53 Stable Linux Driver is released!

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Over the weekend there was a new Linux binary driver release from NVIDIA that was the 256.52 driver in a pre-release state. It didn’t deliver on OpenCL 1.1, Fermi Linux overclocking  support, or any other radical features, but it did … Continue reading

Google Gets Into The 3D Driver Game

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

To help out the adoption of WebGL, the Khronos-backed API originally started by Mozilla that seeks to let web developers tap into modern graphics processors via the web-browser natively, has caused Google to get into the graphics driver game.  

ATI Linux Video Driver 9.8 Supports Newer Kernels

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Advanced Micro Devices announced last night (August 17th) a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary Linux display driver,