14 DAY TRIAL // Nvidia has published details about the immediate availability of an updated proprietary video driver for GNU/Linux operating systems, Nvidia 352.21, the long-lived branch version.
According to the attached changelog, Nvidia 352.21 is a massive update that fixes numerous bugs that were present in previous versions of the driver and offers support for new graphics cards, including GeForce 720A, GeForce 920A, GeForce 930A, GeForce 940A, GeForce GTX 950A, and GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
The new version fixes a bug with nvidia-settings control panel's Display Configuration page, adds support for using the standard Display Configuration page in the nvidia-settings control panel when SLI Mosaic is activated, and adds GLX Protocol support to the GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object and GL_ARB_copy_buffer OpenGL extensions.
A few issues have been fixed with the Linux kernel, support for configuring the swapping behavior for quad-buffered stereo visuals has been added, support for ECC error reporting has been implemented in the nvidia-settings control panel, and a bug has been addressed in the GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB OpenGL extension.
Additionally, there are fixes for the mkprecompiled utility, the nvidia-installer tool, a rare deadlock condition on Quadro GPUs, video playback issues with VDPAU, a kernel memory leak on Maxwell-based GPUs, and a vesafb issue. Also, support for G-SYNC with sync-to-vblank support has been added.
Numerous other issues have been resolved in Nvidia 352.21
As mentioned, Nvidia 352.21 is a massive update and numerous other issues have been resolved, including a regression with the status of the GPU fan in nvidia-settings, some Wine issues, a bug in nvidia-settings related to the saving of the EDID to a file, an issue with X Sync Fence objects in OpenGL, an OpenGL bug, and a RandR 1.4 issue.
Last but not least, G-SYNC is now enabled by default when Unified Back Buffer (UBB) is disabled. Download Nvidia 352.21 video driver for 32-bit Linux and 64-bit Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems right now via Softpedia or directly from the official website of Nvidia. All users are urged to update as soon as possible.