Driver Update: Nvidia Linux Display Driver 180.60

On Monday, Nvidia released new *nix display drivers with version number 180.60. They are available for Linux (32-bit), Linux (AMD64/EM64T), Solaris (x64/x86) and FreeBSD. Specific installation instructions can be found on the individual pages. We do not find any new features in this release. Of course, several problems have been resolved and stability has been worked on. Below are the main improvements made in this release:

Release Highlights

• Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs on multi-core/SMP systems.
• Fixed VGA console restoration on some laptop GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that caused kernel crashes when attempting to initialize NvAGP on Linux/x86-64 kernels built with the CONFIG_GART_IOMMU kernel option.
• Fixed a bug that caused some performance levels to be disabled on certain GeForce 9 series notebooks.
• Fixed an OpenGL driver crash while running Bibble 5.

The following downloads are available:
Linux Display Driver – x86
Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver
Solaris Display Driver – x64/x86
FreeBSD Display Driver – x86