Added support for the nvcuvid API. nvcuvid provides a mechanism for decoding video and exposing the surfaces to CUDA, allowing applications to perform custom processing of the video. nvcuvid is primarily targeted at transcoding and video- processing applications. nvcuvid was already available on other platforms.
By default, nvidia-installer places headers in /usr/include/nvcuvid, and library in /usr/lib/libnvcuvid.so, or in the appropriate library path for your system.
Stopped packaging and installing OpenGL, VDPAU, CUDA, and OpenCL header files with the driver. Those interested in these files can get them from their Linux distributions' packages, where available, or upstream from:
Note that while libvdpau.so is still included in 260.xx drivers, it will be removed from a future release series in early 2011. Distributors are encouraged to package libvdpau.so from http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause a "display preemption" when toggling MPlayer to full-screen the first time. Added OpenGL 4.1 support for Quadro Fermi, GeForce GTX 4xx, and later GPUs. Enhanced VDPAU to fully support Xinerama. Fixed a bug in the X driver that prevented operation of Xinerama when using multiple NVIDIA GPUs from different major hardware generations on X with ABI 4 or greater. Fixed a bug in the OpenGL driver's Xinerama support. Rendering should have ocurred to all physical X screens driven by an NVIDIA GPU compatible with the NVIDIA GPU driving physical X screen 0. However, if some physical X screen did not satisfy that requirement, then not only would that physical X screen not be rendered to (as expected), but also all physical X screens with a higher number would not be rendered to (which was unexpected).
Added GPU "Processor Clock" reporting to the nvidia-settings PowerMizer page. Implemented support for SLI Mosaic Mode on Quadro FX 5800 and Quadro Fermi and newer Quadro GPUs. Enhanced the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue to allow it to be used when SLI is active, and in some cases when the X composite extension is enabled. See the README for further details. Added support for configuring the dithering mode used when driving a flat panel with a GeForce 8 family or Quadro 4600/5600 or newer GPU.See the "Dithering Controls" in the Flat Panel page in nvidia-settings. Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_EXT_texture_integer
GL_ARB_stencil_two_side
GL_EXT_transform_feedback2
GL_NV_transform_feedback2
GL_NV_conditional_render
Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_NV_point_sprite
GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
GL_EXT_point_parameters
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample
GLX protocol for the following OpenGL extension is promoted from unofficial GLX ptotocol to ARB approved GLX protocol:
GL_EXT_geometry_shader4
GL_ARB_shader_objects
GL_ARB_vertex_shader
GL_ARB_fragment_shader
Added support for configuring individual displays as any eye in passive stereo mode "4" when using TwinView or SLI Mosaic through extensions to the MetaMode syntax. Added ColorSpace and ColorRange features for HDMI. These give the ability to output YUV over HDMI and select full/reduced color range on RGB over HDMI. ColorSpace and ColorRange are X Configuration options and can be changed dynamically through nvidia-settings.
Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution's native package management format. This may interact better with the rest of your distribution's framework, and you may want to use this rather than NVIDIA's official package.
Also note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer
HOWTO before downloading the driver.
Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.04.run
One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run nvidia-xconfig
See the
README for more detailed instructions.
GeForce 400 Series:GeForce GTX 480, GeForce GTX 470, GeForce GTX 465, GeForce GTX 460
GeForce 400M Series (Notebooks):GeForce GTX 480M
GeForce 300 Series:GeForce GT 340, GeForce GT 330, GeForce GT 320
GeForce 300M Series (Notebooks):GeForce GTS 360M, GeForce GTS 350M, GeForce GT 335M, GeForce GT 330M, GeForce GT 325M, GeForce GT 320M
GeForce 200 Series:GeForce GTX 295, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 275, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce GTS 250, GeForce GTS 240, GeForce GT 230, GeForce GT 240, GeForce GT 220, GeForce G210, GeForce 205
GeForce 200M Series (Notebooks):GeForce GTX 280M, GeForce GTX 260M, GeForce GTS 250M, GeForce GT 240M, GeForce GT 230M, GeForce GT 220M
GeForce 100 Series:GeForce GT 140, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GT 120, GeForce G100
GeForce 100M Series (Notebooks):GeForce GTS 160M, GeForce GT 130M, GeForce GT 120M, GeForce G 110M, GeForce G 105M, GeForce G 103M, GeForce G 102M
GeForce 9 Series:GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX/GTX+, GeForce 9800 GT, GeForce 9600 GT, GeForce 9600 GSO, GeForce 9600 GSO 512, GeForce 9600 GS, GeForce 9500 GT, GeForce 9500 GS, GeForce 9400 GT, GeForce 9400, GeForce 9300 GS, GeForce 9300 GE, GeForce 9300 SE, GeForce 9300, GeForce 9200, GeForce 9100
GeForce 9M Series (Notebooks):GeForce 9800M GTX, GeForce 9800M GTS, GeForce 9800M GT, GeForce 9800M GS, GeForce 9700M GTS, GeForce 9700M GT, GeForce 9650M GT, GeForce 9650M GS
Quadro NVS Series (Notebooks):NVS 5100M, NVS 3100M
NVS Series:Quadro NVS 285, Quadro NVS 290, Quadro NVS 295, Quadro NVS 420, Quadro NVS 440, Quadro NVS 450
NVS Series (Notebooks):Quadro NVS 510M, Quadro NVS 320M, Quadro NVS 160M, Quadro NVS 150M, Quadro NVS 140M, Quadro NVS 135M, Quadro NVS 130M, Quadro NVS 120M, Quadro NVS 110M
