Install - Update Nvidia 349.12 Beta Driver on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA

Nvidia 349.12 Beta Driver

Install - Update Nvidia 349.12 Beta Driver on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04 and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya via PPA

Nvidia Linux Display Driver is a proprietary OpenGL video driver that tries to bring support for the graphics cards produced by Nvidia on Linux-based operating systems. This version supports only the 32-bit architecture. For 64-bit support, see this link. Even if it provides a settings panel, the Nvidia Linux Display Driver is not an application. It is a hardware driver, which provides some instructions that tell an operating system how to use a piece of hardware.

According to the release notes, Nvidia 349.12 Beta video driver fixes a crash in the nvidia-settings tool, which occurred on systems with multiple X screens when the user assigned an attribute whose value was a display ID, introduces support for VDPAU Feature Set F to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver, and removes the "EnableACPIHotkeys" option.

Reporting of in-use video memory in the nvidia-settings tool just got a lot better, as it can now use the same accounting methods that are currently used in other utilities like nvidia-smi. In addition, a bug that prevented the changes of the graphics card’s fan speed to appear in the Thermal section of nvidia-settings control panel has been fixed, and hardware-accelerated decoding of H.265/HEVC video streams is now supported.

NVidia 349.12 Beta changelog

• Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to crash when assigning an attribute whose value is a display ID on a system with multiple X screens.
• Updated the reporting of in-use video memory in the nvidia-settings control panel to use the same accounting methods used in other tools such as nvidia-smi. nvidia-settings was not taking some allocations into account, e.g. framebuffer memory for the efifb console on UEFI systems, causing discrepancies in the values reported by different tools.
• Removed the “EnableACPIHotkeys” X configuration option. This option has been deprecated and disabled by default since driver version 346.35. On modern Linux systems, display change hotkey events are delivered to the desktop environment as key press events, and the desktop environment handles the display change by issuing requests through the X Resize and Rotate extension (RandR).
• Added support for lossless H.264/AVC video streams to VDPAU.
• Added support for VDPAU Feature Set F to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver. GPUs with VDPAU Feature Set F are capable of hardware-accelerated decoding of H.265/HEVC video streams.
• Fixed a bug that prevented GPU fan speed changes from getting reflected in the text box on Thermal settings page.
• Added nvidia-settings commandline support to query the current and targeted GPU fan speed.
• Added a checkbox to nvidia-settings to enable a visual indicator that shows when G-SYNC is being used. This is helpful for displays that don’t indicate themselves whether they are operating in G-SYNC mode or normal mode.
• Added support for the X.Org X server’s “-background none” option. When enabled, the NVIDIA driver will try to copy the framebuffer console’s contents out of /dev/fb0. If that cannot be done, then the screen is cleared to black.
• Added support for YUV 4:2:0 compression to enable HDMI 2.0 4K@60Hz modes when either the display or GPU is incapable of driving these modes in RGB 4:4:4
• Fixed a bug that could cause multi-threaded applications to crash when multiple threads used the EGL driver at the same time.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sync to VBlank to not work correctly with XVideo applications in certain configurations.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the X driver from correctly interpreting some X configuration options when a display device name was given with a GPU UUID qualifier.
• Fixed a bug that artificially limited the maximum pixel clock on displays in some SLI Mosaic configurations.
• Fixed a kernel memory leak that occurred when looping hardware-accelerated video decoding with VDPAU on Maxell-based GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-settings to crash on exit on 32-bit Linux systems.

How to Install - Update Nvidia 349.12 Beta Driver on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04 and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya via PPA

To Install/Update on Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-349 nvidia-settings

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Nvidia Linux Display Driver is a proprietary OpenGL video driver that tries to bring support for the graphics cards produced by Nvidia on Linux-based operating systems. This version supports only the 32-bit architecture. For 64-bit support, see this link. Even if it provides a settings panel, the Nvidia Linux Display Driver is not an application. It is a hardware driver, which provides some instructions that tell an operating system how to use a piece of hardware. - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/12/nvidia-linux-display-driver-34065.html#sthash.X5asG4i4.dpuf

Nvidia Linux Display Driver is a proprietary OpenGL video driver that tries to bring support for the graphics cards produced by Nvidia on Linux-based operating systems. This version supports only the 32-bit architecture. For 64-bit support, see this link. Even if it provides a settings panel, the Nvidia Linux Display Driver is not an application. It is a hardware driver, which provides some instructions that tell an operating system how to use a piece of hardware. - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/12/nvidia-linux-display-driver-34065.html#sthash.X5asG4i4.dpuf