Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD driver 310.32 (long-lived branch release)

The 310 series replaces the 304 series as the current long lived branch. This branch supports GeForce 8 series and higher graphics products.

The 304 series, which was the previous long-lived branch, is now a legacy branch which supports GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs. GeForce FX GPUs are supported through the 173.14.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.

Release highlights since 310.19:

  • Added support for the following GPUs:
    • GeForce GTX 680MX
    • Tesla K20Xm
  • Fixed a bug when enabling framelock between displays connected to the same GPU as other displays with different refresh rates, which caused the latter to be incorrectly assigned to the framelock group.
  • Updated the reporting of HDMI 3D framerates and pixel clocks to be more consistent with how they are reported by HDMI 3D displays.
  • Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented rotation controls in the nvidia-settings control panel from working after changing resolutions.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause applications using GL_NV_vdpau_interop to crash during modeswitches.
  • Fixed a regression that could cause OpenGL applications to crash while compiling shaders.
  • Added a kernel module parameter, "NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3", which can be used to enable PCIe gen 3 when possible. Note that on many systems where the NVIDIA driver does not allow PCIe gen 3 by default, stability problems can be expected when this option is enabled: users should do so at their own risk.
  • Fixed a VDPAU bug that could cause the X server to hang when decoding some corrupted video streams.
  • Renamed VGX products to GRID products in the "Supported NVIDIA GPU Products" list.
  • Added support for X.org xserver ABI 14 (xorg-server 1.14).
  • Fixed a bug in nvidia-settings that could cause the wrong resolution to be set in basic mode for setups based on one display per X screen.
  • Fixed libnvidia-encode.so library dependency by linking it with libnvcuvid.so.1 instead of libnvcuvid.so while creating it.
  • Improved performance of OpenGL framebuffer object binds with Xinerama enabled by 2000-3000% when the application's windows do not span screen boundaries.
  • Fix performance issues when using some versions of HyperMesh with Quadro GPUs.

Linux x86: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-310.32-driver.html
Linux x86_64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-310.32-driver.html
Solaris: http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris-display-310.32-driver.html
FreeBSD x86: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x86-310.32-driver.html
FreeBSD x86_64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x64-310.32-driver.html