NVIDIA has released the updated 295.53 binary Linux display graphics driver for GeForce and Quadro hardware…
Hybrid Computing’s Radical Growth
Our GTC 2012 coverage continues as Dan Olds examines the growth of the CUDA environment from 150,000 downloads in 2007 to 1.5 million today: More importantly, there are 35 NVIDIA-fueled hybrid supercomputers on the Top500 list today. The NDUT Ti…
NVIDIA 295.49 Fixes Linux Performance Regression
While NVIDIA this week put out their first 302.xx series beta Linux graphics driver, yesterday they also released the 295.49 stable Linux driver. This update does fix the 295.40 performance regression that affected some users in April…
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Approaches Stable State
Nouveau, the reverse-engineered open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA's entire range of graphics processors, is reaching a stable state where it's exiting the "staging" area of the Linux 3.4 kernel and being considered part of the…
A NVIDIA Tegra 2 DRM/KMS Driver Tips Up
Besides a binary driver update from the GeForce/Quadro camp coming out today, a basic DRM/KMS driver for NVIDIA's ARM-based Tegra 2 SOC has appeared this morning…
Nouveau Project Has Huge Surprises Today
The reverse-engineered Nouveau driver project has two huge surprises to share with the NVIDIA-using Linux desktop community today. One announcement concerns new hardware enablement (Kepler!) and the other concerns the Nouveau driver's position w…
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" On Linux?
NVIDIA has finally introduced their first Kepler-based graphics card: the GeForce GTX 680. The new Kepler graphics architecture is an exciting successor to Fermi, but how well does this new graphics processor work under Linux? Here's a glimpse i…
NVIDIA Tegra 3 Makes For Fast Ubuntu On ARM
Here are the first set of Phoronix.com benchmarks of the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3. Needless to say, four Cortex-A9s combined with NVIDIA graphics leads to a fairly fast ARMv7 experience when running Ubuntu Linux…
NVIDIA Joins the Linux Foundation
Fluendo, Lineo Solutions, Mocana and NVIDIA have joined the Linux Foundation. However, there is no indication that this step will have an immediate effect on NVIDIA's driver policy…
There’s Hope For DMA-BUF With Non-GPL Drivers
There's some resurrected hope for the kernel symbols of the DMA-BUF buffer sharing mechanism to be not restricted to only GPL drivers, which started off as a request by NVIDIA. This could lead to better NVIDIA Optimus support under Linux, among …
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