NVIDIA 180.51 Display Driver Released

[bridgman]

Just curious, what are the "politics" everyone is talking about here ?

[immudium]

NVidia drivers == awsome.
ATI drivers (open and closed source) == major eye-gouging inducing suckage.

[DeepDayze]

And this suprises you? Development when unhindered by politics usually will deliver results faster.

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With all the hoo-ha surrounding ATI's fglrx, no wonder they have a problem getting out good releases. The open ATI drivers are getting better with time and perhaps be on a par with fglrx very soon

nVidia just gets better...and I do wish they opened their drivers as well.

[Kano]

as far as i know fglrx is full of crappy bugs, like that vdrift one i discovered using pts, but nvidia worked fine...

[d2kx]

As far as I know, AMD has to do more development work for new Xorg/Linux due to being closer to these systems / using more parts of them. NVIDIA has rewritten most parts for their own.

[deanjo]

So... NVIDIA has 0 problems making the blob driver compatible with a new unreleased Kernel (and Xserver), but with other companies the user has to wait many months after a new kernel/xserver release.

The good side of the story is that the free nv driver is bad (that is of course bad, fortunately nouveau is becoming better) and the radeon driver is every time better.
But that is not a excuse to not make the driver compatible with the latest stable kernel/xserver...

And this suprises you? Development when unhindered by politics usually will deliver results faster.

[KDesk]

So... NVIDIA has 0 problems making the blob driver compatible with a new unreleased Kernel (and Xserver), but with other companies the user has to wait many months after a new kernel/xserver release.

The good side of the story is that the free nv driver is bad (that is of course bad, fortunately nouveau is becoming better) and the radeon driver is every time better.
But that is not a excuse to not make the driver compatible with the latest stable kernel/xserver...

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 180.51 Display Driver Released

NVIDIA has now managed to make it nearly two weeks before issuing a new Linux driver update. The NVIDIA 185.19 Beta is still the latest in the 185.xx series, but NVIDIA has provided a pre-release of the 180.51 driver. The NVIDIA 180.51 driver adds support for the GeForce GT 130, GeForce GT 140, GeForce GTS 250, GeForce 9400GT, and GeForce 9600GSO 512MB...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzIxNg