Sunday, May 6, 2012

Install nVidia Linux Display Driver 295.49 for Ubuntu

Upgrade your nVidia display driver version to 295.49
Here the latest version driver for ubuntu platform based. It has more featured and fixed several issued for your performance.

Image credits: nVidia

The 295.49 version of nVidia display driver has been released. it comes with completely featured and some bugs fixes. Here some of main features issued at this latest update :

OpenGL performance regression fixed that affected Geforce 6/7 series integrated GPUs
Adding support to GeForce GTX 690

Fixed slow problems in moving, starting or stopping windows of OpenGL applications for these graphics cards:

GeForce 8800 Ultra
GeForce 8800 GTS
GeForce 8800 GTX
Quadro FX 5600
Quadro FX 4600

You can run the instalation steps with these following guide :

- Ubuntu 64-bit (amd64):

cd ~/; mkdir nvidia295.49; cd nvidia295.49/
wget -O NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.49.run http://goo.gl/hg4Kz
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.49.run
sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.49.run

- Ubuntu 32-bit (i386):

cd ~/; mkdir nvidia295.49; cd nvidia295.49/
wget -O NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.49.run http://goo.gl/1f9kc
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.49.run
sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.49.run

Then complete the installation wizard and reboot your system.

In the next few days, you can install the Nvidia 295.49 driver with these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current