Canonical includes nVIDIA and AMD proprietary drivers into their official repository

Nowadays. thanks to Valve and their Linux Steam client, more and more people are interested into PC gaming and Ubuntu/Linux GPU drivers. Currently, Steam is under closed beta phase with 5000 beta-testers worldwide, while much more users have been by-passing the login. This means that more than 5000 linux users are already using Steam in … Read more

NVIDIA 304.64 (R310) drivers Deliver Massive Performance Boost To Linux Gaming

NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® drivers — R310 — double the performance and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system. [button color=”green” link=”http://utappiablog.wordpress.com/howto/how-to-install-nvidia-drivers-304-64/”]How to install[/button] The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce … Read more

How to fix Steam for Linux video problems

As you can probably imagine, Steam in Linux issues are related to video drivers. Thus, Valve wants to be ensured that only with the latest binary blob you’ll be able to play Steam games into Ubuntu. So, if you want to become Steam compatible you have to install proprietary nVIDIA or AMD drivers into your … Read more

How to install nVIDIA 310.14 drivers, major changes

NVIDIA has released a new (beta) Linux graphics drivers for Linux community. The latest beta nVIDIA 310.14 driver is now available for download. This time nVIDIA comes with some new major changes, such as fixing (at laaaast) the Youtube-blue-face bug caused Adobe Flash and libvdpau. Next to that, VDPAU is optimized for significant improvement in moving … Read more

How to install nNVIDIA 304.51 drivers in Ubuntu

Today NVIDIA has released a new (stable) Linux graphics drivers for Linux community. The latest beta nVIDIA 304.51 driver is now available for download and offers support for the new models of GeForce GTX 6xx series, meaning GTX650 and GTX600. Simply put, this is the stable version for 304.48 — the last week’s beta driver. … Read more

nVIDIA 304.48 drivers released – Install Guide

Today NVIDIA has released a new (beta) Linux graphics drivers for Linux community. The latest beta nVIDIA 304.48 driver is now available for download and offers support for the new models of GeForce GTX 6xx series, meaning GTX650 and GTX600. For more information take a look at the changelog below: [toggle title=”304.48 Changelog”] – Fixed … Read more

AMD Catalyst 12.9 released – Install Guide (updated)

The latest AMD Catalyst 12.9 was released yesterday (13/9/12) . The most significant change here is that Catalyst 9 improves your embedded Radeon graphics. For example if you’re using a netbook with an AMD CPU, then you have better support for its embedded IGPU, like E6760, E6460 etc.

Last but not least, the AMD hasn’t updated their website, thus this link is located under embedded graphics, not PC Desktop. Hopefully they will update their website during the next 24 hours.

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Fix startx failure on PowerXpress A+A platforms
– Fix performance downgrade with 3DMarkVantage
– Fix startx failure on some specific ASICs
– Fix PowerPlay settings not persistent after reboot
– Fix problem that the hardware information is shown twice in AMD CCC:LE for Power Saving mode of PowerXpress A+A
– Fix severe corruption when switch between multiple X servers
– Fix cursor disappear when open AMD CCC:LE with specific steps
– Fix suspend/resume hang on PowerXpress A+A in Power-Saving mode
– Fix system hang after panning
– Fix system font change after enable Xinerama
– Fix X crash when run 32bit AMD CCC:LE on 64bit system
– Fix the issue that monitor goes into sleep for some ASICs after kill X

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Click to download the drivers for 64/32 bit (the package contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit driver.).

[button color=”orange” link=”http://www2.ati.com/drivers/embedded/9.00-120815a-146426C-EDG_Direct.zip”]Download 32/64bit[/button]

Currently you can’t install this driver using Xorg-Edgers PPA because the repository has not been updated yet. You have to built it by you own following the hard(manual) way.

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How to Install nVIDIA 304.43 with one click

Yesterday, we’ve informed you about the latest nVIDIA driver 304.43. Today, we show you how to install them using our script that automatically configures your Ubuntu system. Click to the button bellow to learn how you can use our script. [button color=”orange” link=”http://utappiablog.wordpress.com/howto/nvidia-drivers-installer-script/”]Download Installer[/button] [youtube id=”ZxweogK3yBw” width=”600″ height=”350″] After the reboot, open Dash and type … Read more

NVIDIA 304.43 Driver Released

Ten days after the Windows’ version, the new NVIDIA 304.43 driver is now available for Linux. It comes with many features, but most significant is GeForce GTX 600 series support. Bug-fix wise, the driver includes a GLX crash fix on X.Org Server 1.13 and fixes the VDPAU hanging on YouTube. Next to that, the driver … Read more