NVIDIA Releases 195.30 Linux Beta Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases 195.30 Linux Beta Driver

Before going off on a holiday recess, NVIDIA's Unix graphics driver team has put out a new NVIDIA driver beta release in the 195.xx driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris. Just shy of a month ago NVIDIA had put out the 195.22 Linux display driver that delivered on VDPAU improvements, support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Stereo, better DisplayPort monitor handling, and many other enhancements. The just-released NVIDIA 195.30 beta display driver now delivers on fixed performance for KDE 4.x when dealing with text that hasn't been anti-aliased, GPU acceleration for many more X RENDER compositing operations, experimental GPU acceleration of the X RENDER CompositeTrapezoids, a VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue, and lastly "nvidia-settings --query all" now really reports all available attributes (something we had been after with NVIDIA to fix)...

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

[hax0r]

Oh yeah, time to nuke nouveau for a day...

[deanjo]

Oh yeah, time to nuke nouveau for a day...

I doubt nouveau pops into their minds when it comes to releasing new blobs.

[DanL]

GT240 support?

[not.sure]

I doubt nouveau pops into their minds when it comes to releasing new blobs.

Probably they think nouveau is a new name for an old driver anyway.

[runrun]

and GT220 HDMI audio support is where?....

[pirast]

VDPAU support for other graphics drivers would be nice.. with radeonhd my 1080p videos do not run smoothly, with windows they do.

[kuse]

VDPAU support for other graphics drivers would be nice.. with radeonhd my 1080p videos do not run smoothly, with windows they do.

I have a strange feeling that nvidia wont implement that for ati cards

[deanjo]

I have a strange feeling that nvidia wont implement that for ati cards

The API is there for anyone to use. It's up to the driver guru's of other cards to implement it.

[kuse]

The API is there for anyone to use. It's up to the driver guru's of other cards to implement it.

Exactly my point, but nvidia wont be that "anyone". This is however an article about nvidia.