Nvidia 384.59 Linux Graphics Driver Adds Support for GeForce GT 1030 GPUs, More

Nvidia on Monday announced the release of a new long-lived graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris-based operating systems, versioned 384.59, adding support for new GPUs, along with a bunch of bug fixes and improvements.

Nvidia 384.59 is now considered the most advanced version of the proprietary graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris platforms, which users should install on their personal computers running a supported Nvidia GPU immediately after reading this article.

The Nvidia 384.59 video driver is here to add support for the Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 and Nvidia GeForce MX150 graphics cards. It also updates nvidia-persistenced to initialize the nvidia-modeset.ko kernel module in addition to the nvidia.ko one when setting persistence mode.

A "Nearest" transform filter is now supported in the X driver

Among other noteworthy improvements that Nvidia im...