NVIDIA 1.0-9742 Display Driver Released

[Michael]

Changes

- Adds support for GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS GPUs.

x86: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_linux_display_x86_1.0-9742.html

x86_64: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_linux_display_x86_64_1.0-9742.html


For the 1.0-9626 official drivers, see: http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=356

[joshuapurcell]

I can say that these drivers support the 8800 very well. There is one issue with getting them installed (at least for me). I had to run these commands after downloading the package:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9742-pkg2.run -x
cd usr/src/nv
sudo vi conftest.sh # On line 350, change the "==" to "="
cd ../../..
sudo ./nvidia-installer
After this the nvidia module installed without a problem. I also needed these package installed (for Ubuntu):

linux-generic
linux-headers-$(uname -r)
linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)
linux-source
build-essential

Not sure if each of the above is absolutely required, but the nvidia install failed before I installed these packages (all at once). I have to say that Quake4 looks awesome... I've never seen a game as good as what this game looks like on this setup. I'm looking forward to Quake Wars :D.