Nvidia Pulls Linux, BSD, Solaris Drivers Due to Bug
More drivers have popped up with the mysterious overheating bug, this time affecting Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems.
DVH reports that Nvidia has removed additional drivers related to an overheat bug that plagued the GeForce 196.75 WHQL drivers last week. The new quarantined drivers are for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, however this time the problem affects two sets rather than just one.
According to the site, users with 195.36.03 and 195.36.08 *nix drivers installed on their system should downgrade to driver versions 190.53 or 195.30 public beta. As of Friday, Nvidia was still looking into the overheating issue, however the only resolution the company could provide was to downgrade the drivers.
"We want to make sure anybody who has not downloaded the driver does not do so from any other sites who still have the driver up, and for those that have downloaded it, we want to make sure they roll back to the previous driver located here," Nvidia's Bryan Del Rizzo said in a statement.
Obviously Nvidia users can't roll back drivers if older ones were previously uninstalled. Head here to download archived and beta drivers stored on Nvidia's website.
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victomofreality or just go to a linux form and they probably already have it fixed, or will before Nvidia does.Reply -
rhino13 Is this update in preparation for Fermi?Reply
An equivilent number of mistakes seem to have been made on the road to both. -
nforce4max sliemTheir road just got bumpy... or bumpier.Reply
Might as well take some lead weights and throw them in a dryer or drive a model T Ford on a very bad road. -
nfail This is embarrassing now. Please die nVidia and let SiS take on ATI instead, we need some real competition.Reply -
davendork The performance increases listed on the nVidia website with the offending driver seemed too good to be true. 30% more in Left 4 Dead? Almost a third? Come on.Reply -
Abrahm Well, at least they release drivers for *nix. I had to wait a few weeks after I got my ATI 5850 before ATI released a Linux driver for it.Reply -
Honis Not looking good for Fermi. They better hope manufacturers haven't printed thousands of CD/DVDs with the bad drivers ready to ship with the cards this month.Reply