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Nvidia Linux Display Driver 173.08 Beta Released

By: Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

Nvidia, the world leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, has released a new beta version of its Linux video driver, 173.08 option, which provides some support for GeForce 9800, 9600, 9500 and 8400 graphics cards, among other corrections and improvements. But we better take a closer look
the main contents of this beta:

• Added support for the following new GPUs:
· Quadro FX 3600M
· GeForce 9800 GX2
· GeForce 9800 GTX
· GeForce 9600 GT
· GeForce 9500M GS
· GeForce 8400
· GeForce 8400 GS

• Added support for Quadro FX 5600/4600 SDI and Quadro G-Sync II;
• Fixed a problem that caused OpenGL to stop rendering to windows with origins at or beyond 4096 pixels (horizontally) on GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs;
• Fixed OpenGL rendering corruption with textures compressed using the DXT5 compression algorithm;
• Fixed a regression that caused invalid EDIDs to be detected for the internal display device on some notebooks;
• Improved hotkey switching and power management support on some GeForce 8 notebooks;
• Fixed a bug that prevented the console from being restored correctly in SLI mode on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs;
• Fixed a problem that caused the synchronization signal polarity to always be positive for DVI devices on GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs;
• Fixed a problem that caused TV output on secondary TVs to be black and white on some GPUs;
• Restored compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.

As you can see, this new driver fixes some important bugs and brings support for Linux kernel 2.6.25, which will be in its final version quite sooner then you think.

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