NVIDIA Quietly Releases Two New Drivers

Last week NVIDIA presented the new 100.14.19 Linux display driver, but NVIDIA had also quietly released two new legacy drivers. The NVIDIA 71.86.01 and 96.43.01 releases basically offer X.Org 7.3 compatibility and support for the latest Linux 2.6 kernels. A few other fixes also made their way into these two legacy Linux driver releases. The NVIDIA 96.43.01 driver corrected a TV-Out corruption problem on some GeForce 4 GPUs, notebook problems with incorrect EDIDs, and power management support on some GeForce 4 notebooks. Both the 71.86.01 and 96.43.01 releases do also fix a nvidia-installer bug. These software releases are designed for their older generations of graphics processors that are not supported by the new mainstream Linux binary graphics driver. The FreeBSD and Solaris legacy drivers have also been updated as well. However, the mainstream FreeBSD driver remains at 100.14.11 instead of 100.14.19. As always, grab these latest drivers for your hardware out of your distribution's package repository or from NVIDIA's website.