Download Driver For Nvidia Linux Display Driver 185.18.36

Nvidia released new *nix display drivers on Friday with version number 185.18.36. 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. There are no 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 a bug that caused kernel panics when starting X on some mobile GPUs.
• Fixed an interaction problem between VDPAU and PowerMizer when using VDPAU solely as a display mechanism, and not to decode video streams. The GPU performance level should now be raised, if required, in this scenario.
• Fixed VDPAU to avoid “display preemption” in some cases where a VdpOutputSurface is deleted while it is still active (either queued or visible) in a VdpPresentationQueue. In particular, this can occur in MPlayer when using the “-fs” option, and could completely prevent VDPAU from operating successfully, depending on the exact timing conditions.

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