NVIDIA has published a new beta graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. R337.12 adds the support of some Maxwell-based graphics cards:
GeForce 830M GeForce 840M GeForce 845M GeForce GTX 850M GeForce GTX 860M GeForce GTX 870M GeForce GTX 880M GeForce GT 705 GeForce GT 720
The GLX_NV_delay_before_swap extension has been added (this extension is also exposed on the Windows version: WGL_NV_delay_before_swap). Complete release notes are available on the download page.
R337.12 downloads
R337.12 is an OpenGL 4.4 driver and exposes 328 extensions (GL_ and GLX_) for a GeForce GTX 750 (Maxwell) under Linux Mint 16. The complete list of all extensions is available in THIS ENTRY of the GPU database (I submitted with GpuTest 0.7.0).
EGL_EXT_buffer_age
EGL_EXT_client_extensions
EGL_EXT_platform_base
EGL_EXT_platform_x11
Are also exposed. That will benefit Wayland development mainly.
And Coolbits are back 🙂 So overclocking work after few years of no support.
PS GpuTest need EGL_* support! Now that is present in Catalyst (on Win too), Geeforce and Mesa.
Nvidia 340.17 UNIX beta drivers
Linux
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/76395/en-us
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/76396/en-us
FreeBSD
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/76392/en-us
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/76391/en-us
Solaris
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/76393/en-us
Nvidia GeForce 340.24 UNIX drivers.
Linux
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/76881/en-us
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/76884/en-us
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/76882/en-us
FreeBSD
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/76885/en-us
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/76886/en-us
Solaris
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/76883/en-us
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/766018/unix-graphics-announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-343-13-beta-/
Nvidia 343.13 UNIX beta drivers.