NVIDIA R310.14 Graphics Drivers for Linux

NVIDIA has rolled out a new set of OpenGL 4.3 drivers for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. These drivers are not certified (beta drivers) and new features have been added in the OpenGL side.

R310.14 Downloads

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

If you are under Linux Mint and need some help to install R304.15, just check this article: How to quickly Install NVIDIA R302.11 Drivers Under Linux Mint 13).

Here are the release notes:

• Implemented workarounds for two Adobe Flash bugs by applying libvdpau commit ca9e637c61e80145f0625a590c91429db67d0a40 to the version of libvdpau
  shipped with the NVIDIA driver.
• Fixed an issue which affected the performance of moving windows of VDPAU applications when run in some composite managers.
• Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object OpenGL extension.
• Added support for HDMI 3D Stereo with Quadro Kepler and later GPUs. See the documentation for the "Stereo" X configuration option in the README
  for details.
• Added experimental support for OpenGL threaded optimizations, available through the __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS environment variable. For more
  information, please refer to the "Threaded Optimizations" section in
  chapter "Specifying OpenGL Environment Variable Settings" of the README.
• Improved performance and responsiveness of windowed OpenGL applications running inside a Unity session.
• Added support for OpenGL 4.3.
• Added support for the "Backlight" RandR output property for configuring the brightness of some notebook internal panels.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Ubuntu Unity launcher panel from unhiding: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1057000
• Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-installer to sometimes attempt to write a log file in a nonexistent directory.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect input transformation after resizing an NVIDIA X screen with xserver ABI 12 (xorg-server 1.12) or newer.
• Fixed a bug that caused GLX to leak memory when Xinerama is enabled.

R310.14 exposes 27 GLX extensions (client) and 312 OpenGL extensions for a GeForce GTX 680
under Linux Mint 13, 64-bit.

First the GLX extensions: they are the same than for R304.22:

– GLX_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
– GLX_VERSION: 1.4
– GLX client extensions: 27

• GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
• GLX_ARB_multisample
• GLX_EXT_visual_info
• GLX_EXT_visual_rating
• GLX_EXT_import_context
• GLX_SGI_video_sync
• GLX_NV_swap_group
• GLX_NV_video_out
• GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
• GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
• GLX_SGI_swap_control
• GLX_EXT_swap_control
• GLX_EXT_swap_control_tear
• GLX_ARB_create_context
• GLX_ARB_create_context_profile
• GLX_NV_float_buffer
• GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
• GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float
• GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
• GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
• GLX_NV_present_video
• GLX_NV_copy_image
• GLX_NV_multisample_coverage
• GLX_NV_video_capture
• GLX_EXT_create_context_es_profile
• GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile
• GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness

R310.14 exposes 312 GL extensions (two extensions have been added compared to R304.15).

– GL_RENDERER: GeForce GTX 680/PCIe/SSE2
– GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
– GL_VERSION: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
– GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 4.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
– OpenGL version detected: 4.3
– OpenGL extensions: 312

• GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect
• GL_AMD_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
• GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
• GL_ARB_base_instance
• GL_ARB_blend_func_extended
• GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
• GL_ARB_color_buffer_float
• GL_ARB_compatibility
• GL_ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage
• GL_ARB_conservative_depth
• GL_ARB_compute_shader
• GL_ARB_copy_buffer
• GL_ARB_copy_image
• GL_ARB_debug_output
• GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float
• GL_ARB_depth_clamp
• GL_ARB_depth_texture
• GL_ARB_draw_buffers
• GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend
• GL_ARB_draw_indirect
• GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex
• GL_ARB_draw_instanced
• GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility
• GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
• GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location
• GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
• GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions
• GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
• GL_ARB_fragment_program
• GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow
• GL_ARB_fragment_shader
• GL_ARB_framebuffer_no_attachments
• GL_ARB_framebuffer_object
• GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB
• GL_ARB_geometry_shader4
• GL_ARB_get_program_binary
• GL_ARB_gpu_shader5
• GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64
• GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
• GL_ARB_half_float_vertex
• GL_ARB_imaging
• GL_ARB_instanced_arrays
• GL_ARB_internalformat_query
• GL_ARB_internalformat_query2
• GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
• GL_ARB_map_buffer_alignment
• GL_ARB_map_buffer_range
• GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
• GL_ARB_multisample
• GL_ARB_multitexture
• GL_ARB_occlusion_query
• GL_ARB_occlusion_query2
• GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
• GL_ARB_point_parameters
• GL_ARB_point_sprite
• GL_ARB_program_interface_query
• GL_ARB_provoking_vertex
• GL_ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior
• GL_ARB_robustness
• GL_ARB_sample_shading
• GL_ARB_sampler_objects
• GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map
• GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects
• GL_ARB_shader_atomic_counters
• GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding
• GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store
• GL_ARB_shader_image_size
• GL_ARB_shader_objects
• GL_ARB_shader_precision
• GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
• GL_ARB_shader_subroutine
• GL_ARB_shader_texture_lod
• GL_ARB_shading_language_100
• GL_ARB_shading_language_420pack
• GL_ARB_shading_language_include
• GL_ARB_shading_language_packing
• GL_ARB_shadow
• GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
• GL_ARB_sync
• GL_ARB_tessellation_shader
• GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp
• GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object
• GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object_rgb32
• GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
• GL_ARB_texture_compression
• GL_ARB_texture_compression_bptc
• GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc
• GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
• GL_ARB_texture_cube_map_array
• GL_ARB_texture_env_add
• GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
• GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar
• GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
• GL_ARB_texture_float
• GL_ARB_texture_gather
• GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat
• GL_ARB_texture_multisample
• GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
• GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
• GL_ARB_texture_query_lod
• GL_ARB_texture_rectangle
• GL_ARB_texture_rg
• GL_ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui
• GL_ARB_texture_storage
• GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample
• GL_ARB_texture_swizzle
• GL_ARB_texture_view
• GL_ARB_timer_query
• GL_ARB_transform_feedback2
• GL_ARB_transform_feedback3
• GL_ARB_transform_feedback_instanced
• GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
• GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object
• GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra
• GL_ARB_vertex_array_object
• GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_64bit
• GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding
• GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
• GL_ARB_vertex_program
• GL_ARB_vertex_shader
• GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev
• GL_ARB_viewport_array
• GL_ARB_window_pos
• GL_ATI_draw_buffers
• GL_ATI_texture_float
• GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once
• GL_S3_s3tc
• GL_EXT_texture_env_add
• GL_EXT_abgr
• GL_EXT_bgra
• GL_EXT_bindable_uniform
• GL_EXT_blend_color
• GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate
• GL_EXT_blend_func_separate
• GL_EXT_blend_minmax
• GL_EXT_blend_subtract
• GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
• GL_EXT_Cg_shader
• GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test
• GL_EXT_direct_state_access
• GL_EXT_draw_buffers2
• GL_EXT_draw_instanced
• GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
• GL_EXT_fog_coord
• GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit
• GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample
• GL_EXTX_framebuffer_mixed_formats
• GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample_blit_scaled
• GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
• GL_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
• GL_EXT_geometry_shader4
• GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters
• GL_EXT_gpu_shader4
• GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
• GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
• GL_EXT_packed_float
• GL_EXT_packed_pixels
• GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object
• GL_EXT_point_parameters
• GL_EXT_provoking_vertex
• GL_EXT_rescale_normal
• GL_EXT_secondary_color
• GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects
• GL_EXT_separate_specular_color
• GL_EXT_shader_image_load_store
• GL_EXT_shadow_funcs
• GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
• GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
• GL_EXT_texture3D
• GL_EXT_texture_array
• GL_EXT_texture_buffer_object
• GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1
• GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc
• GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc
• GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
• GL_EXT_texture_cube_map
• GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
• GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
• GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3
• GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
• GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888
• GL_EXT_texture_integer
• GL_EXT_texture_lod
• GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
• GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp
• GL_EXT_texture_object
• GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent
• GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
• GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode
• GL_EXT_texture_storage
• GL_EXT_texture_swizzle
• GL_EXT_texture_type_2_10_10_10_REV
• GL_EXT_timer_query
• GL_EXT_transform_feedback2
• GL_EXT_vertex_array
• GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra
• GL_EXT_vertex_attrib_64bit
• GL_EXT_x11_sync_object
• GL_EXT_import_sync_object
• GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip
• GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat
• GL_KHR_debug
• GL_KTX_buffer_region
• GL_NV_alpha_test
• GL_NV_bindless_texture
• GL_NV_blend_minmax
• GL_NV_blend_square
• GL_NV_complex_primitives
• GL_NV_compute_program5
• GL_NV_conditional_render
• GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color
• GL_NV_copy_image
• GL_NV_depth_buffer_float
• GL_NV_depth_clamp
• GL_NV_draw_texture
• GL_NV_ES1_1_compatibility
• GL_NV_explicit_multisample
• GL_NV_fbo_color_attachments
• GL_NV_fence
• GL_NV_float_buffer
• GL_NV_fog_distance
• GL_NV_fragdepth
• GL_NV_fragment_program
• GL_NV_fragment_program_option
• GL_NV_fragment_program2
• GL_NV_framebuffer_multisample_coverage
• GL_NV_geometry_shader4
• GL_NV_gpu_program4
• GL_NV_gpu_program4_1
• GL_NV_gpu_program5
• GL_NV_gpu_program_fp64
• GL_NV_gpu_shader5
• GL_NV_half_float
• GL_NV_light_max_exponent
• GL_NV_multisample_coverage
• GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint
• GL_NV_occlusion_query
• GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil
• GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object
• GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object2
• GL_NV_path_rendering
• GL_NV_pixel_data_range
• GL_NV_point_sprite
• GL_NV_primitive_restart
• GL_NV_register_combiners
• GL_NV_register_combiners2
• GL_NV_shader_atomic_counters
• GL_NV_shader_atomic_float
• GL_NV_shader_buffer_load
• GL_NV_shader_storage_buffer_object
• GL_NV_texgen_reflection
• GL_NV_texture_barrier
• GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc
• GL_NV_texture_env_combine4
• GL_NV_texture_expand_normal
• GL_NV_texture_lod_clamp
• GL_NV_texture_multisample
• GL_NV_texture_rectangle
• GL_NV_texture_shader
• GL_NV_texture_shader2
• GL_NV_texture_shader3
• GL_NV_transform_feedback
• GL_NV_transform_feedback2
• GL_NV_vdpau_interop
• GL_NV_vertex_array_range
• GL_NV_vertex_array_range2
• GL_NV_vertex_attrib_integer_64bit
• GL_NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory
• GL_NV_vertex_program
• GL_NV_vertex_program1_1
• GL_NV_vertex_program2
• GL_NV_vertex_program2_option
• GL_NV_vertex_program3
• GL_NVX_conditional_render
• GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info
• GL_OES_compressed_ETC2_RGB8_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_ETC2_sRGB8_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_ETC2_punchthroughA_RGBA8_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_ETC2_punchthroughA_sRGB8_alpha_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_ETC2_RGBA8_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_ETC2_sRGB8_alpha8_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_EAC_R11_unsigned_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_EAC_R11_signed_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_EAC_RG11_unsigned_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_EAC_RG11_signed_texture
• GL_OES_compressed_paletted_texture
• GL_OES_depth24
• GL_OES_depth32
• GL_OES_depth_texture
• GL_OES_element_index_uint
• GL_OES_fbo_render_mipmap
• GL_OES_get_program_binary
• GL_OES_mapbuffer
• GL_OES_packed_depth_stencil
• GL_OES_point_size_array
• GL_OES_point_sprite
• GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8
• GL_OES_read_format
• GL_OES_standard_derivatives
• GL_OES_texture_3D
• GL_OES_texture_float
• GL_OES_texture_float_linear
• GL_OES_texture_half_float
• GL_OES_texture_half_float_linear
• GL_OES_texture_npot
• GL_OES_vertex_array_object
• GL_OES_vertex_half_float
• GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap
• GL_SGIS_texture_lod
• GL_SGIX_depth_texture
• GL_SGIX_shadow
• GL_SUN_slice_accum