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NVIDIA Updates Its Legacy Linux Drivers

Written by Michael Larabel in NVIDIA on 17 July 2008 at 07:47 PM EDT. Add A Comment
If you're using an older NVIDIA graphics card and haven't yet turned to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver, you may want to check out the latest NVIDIA legacy drivers. NVIDIA has updated its two oldest legacy drivers -- the 71.xx.xx and 96.xx.xx series -- for Linux. The new 71.86.06 driver for Linux fixes a bug that resulted in black-and-white video output on secondary TVs. The other new driver, 96.43.07, has this TV fix too along with improved nvidia-xconfig parsing when using a xorg.conf file that lacks a module section. Both of these new drivers also have support for the Linux 2.6.26 kernel. The NVIDIA 71.86.06 and 96.43.07 Linux drivers can be downloaded from here and here, respectively.

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