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Nvidia Linux Display Driver is a proprietary, yet freely distributed OpenGL video driver that aims to offer support for Nvidia graphics cards on any Linux kernel-based operating system.
This version has been designed to be installed only computers supporting the 64-bit architecture.
This Version 367.27 released on 13th June 2016 with a fix of bugs and support to new GPU's
Support to New GPU
- GeForce GTX 1080
- GeForce GTX 1070
- Added support for VDPAU Feature Set H to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver. GPUs with VDPAU Feature Set H are capable of hardware-accelerated decoding of 8192x8192 (8k) H.265/HEVC video streams.
- Fixed a bug that caused the X server to sometimes skip displaying Vulkan frames when the Composite extension is enabled.
- Fixed a bug that would cause OpenGL applications to crash when creating a context on one X display connection, then making it current with no associated drawable on another X display connection. This fixes a crash when starting some versions of Matlab.
- Fixed OpenGL presentation to SDI through the GLX_NV_video_out and GLX_NV_present_video extensions, which was broken by the introduction of the nvidia-modeset kernel module in 358.09.
- Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect offset to be applied when using the full composition pipeline on a display whose image has both a rotation and a ViewportOut offset applied.
- Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-settings to crash on some systems when responding to events such as hotplugging DisplayPort devices.
- Fixed a bug that could cause crashes in OpenGL applications which use glTextureView() with a non-zero minlevel.
- Enhanced the Display Device information page in nvidia-settings with additional information for DisplayPort devices to reflect attributes which are specific to DisplayPort connections.
- Fixed a bug which could cause deleted application profiles to appear when editing rules in the nvidia-settings control panel.
- Fixed a bug that caused hangs when a G-SYNC monitor is unplugged and a non-G-SYNC monitor is connected while G-SYNC is active.
- Fixed a bug that caused "nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Activating G-SYNC failed" to be printed to the system log if a G-SYNC monitor is connected and stereo is enabled in xorg.conf on a configuration that doesn't support it.
- Added the NV_robustness_video_memory_purge OpenGL extension, which
- allows applications to know when a mode switching or power event purged the contents of FBOs and BOs residing in video memory.
- Fixed a bug that prevented HDMI 2.0 4K monitors from waking up from sleep or hot-replug.
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a system crash if there was a peer-to-peer mapping still active during CUDA context teardown.
Installation steps
Step 1: Remove the Older version of Nvidia driver before installationsudo apt-get purge nvidia*Step 2: Reboot the system
Step 3: Download the Nvidia Driver 367.27
For 32bit
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/367.27/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-367.27.runFor 64 bit
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/367.27/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.runStep 4: Switch to command prompt and stop the running Graphics session by pressing
Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 , you will be entered into command prompt
For Ubuntu
sudo service lightdm stop
sudo service gdm stop
For LinuxMint
sudo mdm stopStep 4: Give execute permissions to the installer
sudo chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.runStep 5: Install the Nvidia 367.27 driver
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.runAfter successfull installation reboot the system.
Uninstalltion of Nvidia driver 367.27
For uninstall run the below commandsudo NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.run --uninstall
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