News: Nvidia VR with SDK.

November 18, 2015: NVIDIA released the GameWorks VR and DesignWorks VR Software Development Kits.
The 1.0 SDK releases also add support for Windows 10.
The main reason is a complex challenge VR versus graphics processing to traditional 3D apps and games.

You can read more about this here and can also see this video:

News: NVIDIA for Linux Released with GL_NV_command_list.

Nvidia comes with new drivers for Linux OS and support for the following GPUs:
Quadro K620M, Quadro K2200M, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 965M.

NVIDIA has published a long-lived branch release for Linux OS:

• Linux 64-bit
• Linux 32-bit
• Linux ARM
• Solaris
• FreeBSD 64-bit
• FreeBSD 32-bit

Add also adds one new extension: GL_NV_command_list and exposes 368 OpenGL extensions for a GeForce GTX 970.

News: NVIDIA PhysX SDK 3.3.2 under Linux.

Brings GPU acceleration under Linux with the new version is the GPU PhysX support. NVIDIA has updated the PhysX SDK in version 3.3.2. NVIDIA PhysX is available for Windows, Linux, OS X, Sony PS3/PS4/PSVita, Nintendo Wii U, Xbox (360, One), Android and iOS. The main changes in v3.3.2 :

• added set/getRunProfiled() for PxDefaultCpuDispatcher to control profiling at task level. 
• Android: Support for x86 based devices was added. PxProfileEventHandler::durationToNanoseconds() added. Translates event duration in timestamp (cycles) into nanoseconds. 
• added SnippetProfileZone to show how to retrieve profiling information. 
• added SnippetCustomJoint to better illustrate custom joint implementation, and removed SnippetExtension. 
• added SnippetStepper to demonstrate kinematic updates while sub stepping with tasks.
• fixed some issues.

News: Good and bad news about NVIDIA and Linux drivers.

NVIDIA would be dropping pre-Fermi support and will be removing all support for graphics processors prior to the GeForce 400 "Fermi" series.
NVIDIA will support newly-dropped GPUs on Linux through 2019, but also will come with support for new Linux kernels and X servers.
NVIDIA fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 304.* legacy releases through the end of 2017.
No further releases from the 71.86.* legacy driver series are planned.
The Linux 304.* legacy driver series is the last to support the NV4x and G7x GPUs and motherboard chipsets also support the G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on them.
And this it's wonderful for Linux users.
You can read more about this here.

Linux - NVIDIA has released R331.38 drivers

NVIDIA has released a new set of graphics drivers for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.
R331.38 comes with bugfixes and OpenGL improvements.
Also R331.38 is an OpenGL 4.4 and exposes 291 GL extensions + 28 GLX extensions. Read more about this here.

News: NVIDIA Linux Drivers 331.17 (beta) with OpenGL 4.4

NVIDIA comes with a new set of graphics drivers in beta version for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
This release - R331.17 is an OpenGL 4.4 driver and the same the same number of extensions than R331.13: 292 OpenGL + 28 GLX.
Also, support for the following GPUs:

• Quadro K510M 
• Quadro K610M 
• Quadro K1100M 
• Quadro K2100M 
• Quadro K3100M 
• Quadro K4100M 
• Quadro K5100M 
• GeForce 705A 
• GeForce GT 730A

Read more about this release nvidia devtalk forum.

News about NVIDIA Linux drivers.

The NVIDIA has just released an R331.xx driver for Linux.
You can download Linux Nvidia drivers from :
 nvidia 32bit nvidia amd64 nvidia solaris-display nvidia linux-display-ia32 nvidia freebsd-x86 nvidia freebsd-x64

Fighting Blender, NVIDIA and GNOME ...

Today I spent some time with Blender, NVIDIA and GNOME ...
Since I did pre-update and put Fedora 15, the system worked well until today.
Today I tried to relax a bit with Blender 3D, but ...

[free-tutorials@user ~]$blender
Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

How to prevent uploading that file? Simply using:

[free-tutorials@user ~]$blender --factory-startup 
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Obviously, I should try to debug:

[free-tutorials@user ~]$blender --factory-startup  -d
Blender 2.57 (sub 0)
Build: 2011-04-27 16:56:56 Linux:32bit Release
argv[0] = blender
argv[1] = --factory-startup
argv[2] = -d
read file 
  Version 256 sub 6 svn r36063

ordered
 OBCube
 OBLamp
 OBCamera
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Simply don't want, it's something related to graphics card ...

[free-tutorials@user ~]$blender --factory-startup  -d -noglsl 
Blender 2.57 (sub 0)
Build: 2011-04-27 16:56:56 Linux:32bit Release
argv[0] = blender
argv[1] = --factory-startup
argv[2] = -d
argv[3] = -noglsl
read file 
  Version 256 sub 6 svn r36063

ordered
 OBCube
 OBLamp
 OBCamera
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

So the problem is not related to GLSL.
Then I tried to see what glxinfo says.

[free-tutorials@user ~]$glxinfo | grep Error
Error: glXCreateContext failed

I found this problem and I added to xorg.conf the following lines of code.

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection 

I must admit that after restarting the computer, greeted me with the gnome interface and unprecedented special effects.
Then I waited ... and waited ... I fixed up with a simple line of code:

$  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'gnome-fallback'

... written in Xfce terminal, because in gnome I have not succeeded.
Now I have the old gnome, slightly improved but it works flawlessly with Blender 3D...

Fedora 14 and NVIDIA FX5200

Today I set video driver on Fedora 14.
I have an FX5200 and I use akmod to make this working.
First when I install akmod with :

yum install kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE.i686

I have some errors:

$ glxinfo | grep direct
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

But i solve and Savage XR working well :