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How to Install NVIDIA 349.16 Beta using PPA on Ubuntu & Linux Mint

How to Install NVIDIA 349.16 Beta using PPA on Ubuntu & Linux Mint

NVIDIA officially announces the release of NVIDIA 349.16 Beta with new addition along with minor bugfixes. Well this is another beta version availale for testing purposes. This release might surprise the new users because it includes support for new GPUs along with newly added features.

According to official announcement, NVIDIA 349.16 Beta comes with support for new GPUs such as Quadro K1200, M6000, GeForce 920M, 930A, 930M, GTX 950M, GTX 960M. It also includes support for G-SYNC monitors when used together with non-G-SYNC monitors and added support for lossless H.264/AVC video streams to VDPAU along with added support for VDPAU feature set F to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver.

This release also includes nvidia-settings commandline support to query the current and targeted GPU fan speed, a checkbox to nvidia-settings to enable a visual indicator that shows when G-SYNC is being used, support for X.Org X server's "-background none" option, 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. You can also download the latest NVIDIA 349.16 Beta to install it on your Linux Distro.

Apart from these new features, NVIDIA 349.16 Beta also includes minor bugfixes such as fixed bug that could caused 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 and fixed a bug that caused corruption when switching display modes in some applications that use transform feedback. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install latest NVIDIA 349.16 Beta Driver using PPA on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint, and other PPA based Linux Distros.

Step Wise Installation of NVIDIA 349.16 Beta Driver using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for NVIDIA 349.16 Beta Driver on your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for NVIDIA 349.16 Beta driver in the software repository of your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo apt-get update
Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest NVIDIA 349.16 Beta Driver on your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-349 nvidia-settings
Now you can play your favorite games which require NVIDIA graphics driver.

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